The body grows naturally — Rubira Jr.

The body grows naturally Almost twenty years ago, in front of a group of young people enthusiastic about evangelizing in the city of Beja, in the south of Portugal, Pr. William Vieira told us: “What should we do for a child to grow? We feed and care for it, but it grows naturally, in its own time, and the growth of the Church follows the same logic.” I kept these words in my heart, and this teaching saved me from the “statistical despair” that m…