Almost aborted....now a priest

Fr Luis Armijos playing his guitar at a church function.

Maria Eugenia from Ecuador was raped when she was only 13 years old. She was one of 7 siblings and worked as a housemaid to help her parents. The head of the household where she worked raped her and she became pregnant. Her family disowned her and manhandled her, even beating her belly so that she would lose the baby. She had to escape from her family until she delivered her baby, who had severe breathing problems. But the baby boy survived and grew up as a nice boy, well-behaved and devout. He eventually entered the seminary and became a priest, Fr Luis Alfredo Armijos. Many years later, his father (the man who had raped his mother) was going to undergo a serious operation, met his son and he confessed and received Holy Communion. Fr Luis said “I realize that God wanted me to become a priest not to be judgmental, but to forgive. I had judged my father on many issues. When you hear the story of how you came into the world, you tend to start hating yourself and judge God unfairly. But through it all, I learned that the love of God was always there to protect me.”