In fact, most of my extended family members never really strayed away from the Church - as I did - the crazy butterfly flitting to Buddhism and Hinduism and then finally back to finding Jesus! They derive great happiness from their faith. None of my siblings ever miss Sunday Mass. My cousin Theresa Foo is a cantor and pianist in the Holy Family Church in Kajang and my cousin Pat Foo sings in the choir of St. Some lead nominal Christian lives most are quite ardent Catholics. Today, my huge family live all over the world. God never quite goes away just like the ‘Hound of Heaven’ in the poem by Francis Thompson, God continues to pursue us until we come back to the fold.Īt school in Kuala Lumpur, at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, Bukit Nanas, I was blessed to know Sr Daniel Ee who taught me more than English she became my friend and the ‘guardian angel’ who opened my eyes to the wonder of the words of God in the Bible. I did not know it then, but the imprints of my Catholic upbringing and education during my childhood were already deeply embedded in me. But, when I left my faith, God did not abandon me. I had grown up with a most solid Catholic upbringing from my parents, grandparents and the extended circle of aunts and uncles, all of whom were Catholic to their core.
In my case, I was the Prodigal Daughter, enjoying a materialistic ‘Godless’ existence as a lawyer in Tokyo, New York and Hong Kong. My story is like that of the profligate Prodigal Son in the Bible who, after squandering his inheritance, returns to his father for forgiveness and finds that he is not scorned but is welcomed back with open arms and heartily celebrated with the fatted calf!
CATHOLIC TAMIL BIBLE FULL
It was a long period of 50 years in my self-inflicted ‘wilderness’ before I was able to find and return to God, and when I did, I received not only His forgiveness but the full bounty of His love – endless, unconditional and life-changing. In my recent book, Late Have I Loved Thee, I wrote about how although I was so fortunate to grow up a Catholic in the bosom of the Lord, when I got caught up with the hedonism of life, how carelessly I put Jesus aside.
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