My Journey with John Paul II

By Jenny Sullivan

June 6, 2017

In her submission to the Golden Thread Contest, Jenny Sullivan speaks of how faith radically changed through a personal encounter with a person whom she has never met.

However, John Paul II is and has been to me, as so many saints are and have been to people of faith, a model and a guide, showing to me through his life and his work how I too might enter more deeply into the mystery of the human person, how I too might grow closer to God by loving and respecting His creatures in their dignity and truth Many people who met John Paul II during his lifetime said that when he spoke to them, even for only a few moments, they felt as if they were the only person in the world who existed for him just then

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