A woman who became a Poor Clare, first in Algiers, then in Malawi, had been an agnostic,  card-carrying communist. Although she grew up with no religious training – her parents had left the Catholic Faith – the young woman, Lucette, nonetheless had a profound conversion experience.  During World War II, she had gone to France to do some relief work among youth, and she came across an abandoned cattle shed which had been set up as a small chapel. She found our Lord there on an improvised altar, with a priest kneeling nearby.  She said to him that she did not know what to do with her life.  The priest told her, “You can do many things for God, but he wants only one. It is this that makes a choice difficult. Will you die for him?”  Lucette reflected, “I answered, ‘Yes.’ We all have this tendency to reach for the offered chalice without knowing what it means. But somehow there was light in the priest’s question, perhaps all the light I was to need.”   - From  A Memory for Wonders, Mother Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard, P.C.C. [this is Lucette’s religious name]