Article: Hubert and Odessa: caught in a web of grace. (Hubert Sonnenschein; Odessa Madre)

This is the story of two people with the unlikely names of Hubert Sonnenschein and Odessa Madre. Hubert was a priest; Odessa was a prostitute. It's also a story about prevenient grace, that divine grace operating in the human win even before it turns to God.

We'll start with the grace-filled life of Hubert Sonnenschein. He was born in Holland 70 years ago. Only a teenager when Hitler invaded Holland, his brother was nearly slaughtered by the Nazis because his surname is one shared with Jews.

Hubert entered the seminary of the White Fathers, now called the Missionaries of Africa, in Boxtel, Holland. In 1951, he was ordained in Jedburgh, Scotland. The society, ...

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