What has made your faith stronger?
Miriam, without a doubt. Her strong, solid faith has always inspired me.
The many good priests I have known through the years, beginning with the Colonel who helped us with Miriam's legal status in Bad Kreuznach; Father Thomas J. Rynne and Father Andrés Coucelo at Saint John the Apostle of Hialeah; Father David Russell of Saint Louis, Saint John Newmann in Miami and Saint Patrick in Miami Beach; Father Sebastian in Saint Madleine in High Springs.
The many moments I have felt specially close to God, both in and out of church, at specific instants, some good but more often in bad moments.
The conviction that my faith in the Holy Trinity, beleif in Jesus Christ, feeling part of something unknowable but real, should guide me throughout my life and my spirit into eternity.