catholicworldreport.com
2025-09-27
A few days after our wedding, I gave up on charting my cycle. Whatever God wants, we said. Let the babies come!
But less than two years later, my husband and I knelt before the altar in St. Lucy's Church, home of the National Shrine of St. Gerard, in Newark, NJ. Many Catholics turn to St. Gerard with their intentions concerning pregnancy and childbirth. We had a big petition to surrender at the foot of the Cross that day. But God-in His wonderful, incomprehensible, mysterious Providence-did not choose to grant us a miracle on this particular occasion (at least, not in the way we might have hoped).
The surrendering of our fertility would not end with a baby. A few days later, I underwent a medical hysterectomy for uterine and ovarian cancer.