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Monsignor Fulton Sheen and a beautiful lady

Monsignor Fulton Sheen was a famous American bishop, who was well known for his talks on television. He collected a lot of money from viewers to send them to Catholic missions. On one occasion, he related to a journalist from the missionary magazine Catolicismo the following fact: he was traveling by plane between New York and Boston and a young Catholic lady sat next to me. I noticed that she was very beautiful. Before starting to speak, she told me:

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– Do you know me?

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– Well no.

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– I do remember. We met two years ago, precisely also on a plane.

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You told me: «Miss, you are very beautiful. It would be great if you used your beauty to give glory to God.» I think I’m a good Catholic, though not a very fervent one. But, since you spoke to me that time, I have often wondered if it would be better to leave everything and give myself totally to serve God in others. And I think I’m ready for this delivery.

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– Well, if you’re willing, come with me when we land in Boston and we’ll talk more slowly about your vocation.
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That’s how it went. We talked and she made up her mind. She is now working as a missionary in a leper colony in Vietnam and God has given her another beauty more sublime than that of the body, the beauty of the soul in which she gives herself totally to the service of God and others.