Editor's note: This is another in an occasional series featuring the vocation stories of several Miles Jesu seminarians and priests.
Dominic Quadras entered our seminary last year. He’s from Bombay, India where he had a good job as a locomotive conductor. For almost 10 years, day in and day out, he’d pull out of Bombay station heading 4 hours southwest and returning home by the late evening.
In 1991, the same year he got this job, Dominic joined Miles Jesu in Bombay. Practically speaking, this meant that to his daily routine he added daily Mass and began living in community with other Catholic young men working in the city. The community life added an entirely new dimension to Dominic’s life. Now he became committed to striving for sanctity as a secular apostle, with the help of the other men in the Miles Jesu house.
Not long after joining Miles Jesu Dominic became involved in the Miles Jesu Little Angels Program. This is a program that provides food, medical attention and education to destitute children roaming the streets of Bombay and countless surrounding villages. It is directed to those whom the locals cruelly label as the “rag pickers.”
Members of Miles Jesu call them the Little Angels. They are the poorest of the poor and often only 5-12 years old. These destitute children spend their entire days rummaging through filthy trash heaps throughout the city. Their dirty little hands must grope among the rats in contaminated areas as they search for and collect little pieces of cloth or paper. At the end of the day these children then drag a large bag filled with their day’s findings to a recycling center where they are given a few pennies for their day’s work. These children are from destitute families and pick rags to have something to eat by the end of each day.
Dominic helped develop the Little Angels program, especially by generously devoting a large part of his salary for the needs of these children.
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