Conversion stories are deeply personal, Hannah Rafle, CARITAS For Children's Assistant to the Executive Driector, graciously shares her life-changing experience.

When I was growing up, finding God or going to church did not seem practical at all. My family was what I termed “secular Christian”. We celebrated holidays like Christmas and Easter but never touched on the religious aspects. The only time we would attend church is when we visited my grandmother and would go to her Methodist Church.

Now in the middle of Ordinary Time, Easter feels like a distant memory and Advent is not yet on the horizon. Ordinary Time, however, is anything but ordinary. In addition to the feasts and memorials sprinkled throughout Ordinary Time in the liturgical calendar, if we pay attention to the readings we find the calling of the apostles, Jesus teaching his disciples.