Growing up in a traditional, Catholic family, I have attended Catholic school all my life, gone to church every Sunday, and attended youth groups and Christian camps during the summers. However, like many Catholic children, I was easily bored by the ritualistic, seemingly uninteresting traditions that made up the mass and the religion itself. Yet in the homily of one specific Sunday mass, the priest spoke about something that would change the path of my life profoundly. A missionary priest visiting our church, Fr. Simon Peter, spoke of this magnificent homily from personal experience. He spoke of a program in Uganda where people have the opportunity to adopt and sponsor a child in need. “The wonderful opportunities for these kids created
