In the summer of 2001, after serving as a lector at our church for one year, the liturgy group invited me to serve a two-year term as leader of the lector group, which is responsible for the Scripture reading arrangements during Chinese Mass and for the fifteen lectors. At that time, my family had just moved to the San Jose area for three years, and I didn’t know many people at SJCCC (San Jose Chinese Catholic Community), and was still somewhat regarded as a newcomer. In addition, I had only received Chinese education through 6^th grade, and had served as a lector for only one year previously.  I thought I had neither the qualification nor the ability to handle this task. I prayed to God sincerely and asked him to reveal his will to me, and to my surprise, the message from God was: he was the one who arranged this task for me.

Ever since I began serving as a sacristy minister during Mass, I have often experienced God’s compassion, love, and care.  I am a very forgetful person, and although I can remember millions of bytes of computer code, my daily life is often in disarray because of my forgetfulness.  Often, I could not even recall names of close friends!  Because of my forgetful nature, I try to be extra careful when serving God, fearing I might forget something important.  Someone suggested that I should use a note pad to record things, and I’ve tried it a few times, but either ended up forgetting to bring the note pad, or lost the note pad all together.  It seems changing one’s nature is harder than moving mountains!