Corpus Christi Catholic Parish Newsletter — May/June 2021

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MAY/JUNE 2021

Corpus Christi Catholic Parish Meet Anna and Alvaro Martinez: The Long Journey Home

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Conozca a Anna y Alvaro Martinez: El Largo Viaje a Casa

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ometimes, in the midst of veces, en medio de las life’s struggles, it can feel luchas de la vida, puede as though God is far away. You parecer que Dios está lejos. wonder why He allows the pain Te preguntas por qué perHe does. You question if He is mite el dolor que hace. Te actually cares about you and preguntas si realmente se your suffering at all. preocupa por ti y tu sufriFor parishioner Anna Marmiento. tinez, it was these kinds of feelPara la feligresa Anna ings that kept her away from Martinez, fueron este tipo the Church for many years. de sentimientos los que Born into a Catholic family and la mantuvieron alejada de raised in the faith, she fell away la Iglesia durante muchos Parishioners Alvaro and Anna Martinez had their as a young adult, in an abusive años. Nacida en una famimarriage blessed this past January. marriage. In 1999, she moved lia católica y criada en la to Nebraska City, alone with her two young children, fe, ella se alejó cuando era una adulta joven, en not knowing anyone. But in the midst of complete unun matrimonio abusivo. En 1999, se mudó a la certainty, God provided in surprising ways — a home, ciudad de Nebraska, sola con sus dos hijos pea job, and safety for her and her family. However, in queños, sin conocer a nadie. Pero en medio de her pain, she still struggled to recognize His provision. una completa incertidumbre, Dios proporcionó “I was still mad at God at that point,” Anna says. de maneras sorprendentes: un hogar, un trabajo “I had to go through a horrible separation and moving y seguridad para ella y su familia. Sin embargo, from Texas to Nebraska City, it was so horrific. en su dolor, todavía luchaba por reconocer Su “I’d ask, ‘God, where are You? I don’t see You — provisión. things keep getting worse,’” she adds. “Every time I “Todavía estaba enojada con Dios en ese mowould have struggles, I would say the same thing, ‘If mento”, dice Anna. “Tuve que pasar por una continued on page 4

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