{"id":3842,"date":"2026-09-02T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:59:18","slug":"saved-by-grace-called-to-proclaim-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/saved-by-grace-called-to-proclaim-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Saved by Grace, Called to Proclaim the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My name is Terence D&#8217;Souza. I completed my 2 years study of the Word of God through the Word Ministry, at the Goregaon Seminary, Mumbai, in 2012. Before being commissioned I had to face a Life \u2013 Threatening Trial. I had to give six talks, one on each section, the Book of Jeremiah duration of One Hour each day. My Final talk was given on the First Thursday of March 2012. The following day, First Friday of the Month,\u00a0 I was struck by severe malaria, with my platelets falling to just 9000 and on the verge of collapse. Given the Sacrament of Anointing, I was admitted to the hospital. After 6 days, I recovered from Malaria, only to be diagnosed with Typhoid from which I recovered after one month. God chose me to study His Word for 104 Sundays and he assured me my sacrifice would not be in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Through it all, Jesus saved me for His purpose to proclaim His Word and Live it \u2013 With Faith as small as a mustard seed. I continued to serve as God&#8217;s Minister of the Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terence D&#8217;Souza (SCC 6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Terence D&#8217;Souza. I completed my 2 years study of the Word of God through the Word Ministry, at the Goregaon Seminary, Mumbai, in 2012. Before being commissioned I had to face a Life \u2013 Threatening Trial. I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pormoll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}