{"id":151590,"date":"2024-10-16T14:39:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T18:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=151590"},"modified":"2024-10-16T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T20:32:01","slug":"when-cancer-knocks-at-your-door-enrique-samson-illness-and-his-life-in-regnum-christi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/when-cancer-knocks-at-your-door-enrique-samson-illness-and-his-life-in-regnum-christi\/","title":{"rendered":"When Cancer Knocks at Your Door \u2013 Enrique Samson, Illness, And His Life in Regnum Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Enrique Samson, <\/i>originally from Mexico City, <\/i> lives in Atlanta, and has been a Regnum Christi member for over 24 years. He is married and has three small children. Right now he is fighting two diagnoses of cancer and, interestingly, he feels blessed by them. As could be expected, family life changes drastically, priorities are refocused, and hope becomes a virtue of the valiant. What message does Enrique have for all of us? \u201cThe members of my Regnum Christi team have literally been the friends who carried the paralytic man to Christ and broke open the roof of the house to lower the mat.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Enrique joined Regnum Christi during Holy Week Missions in the year 2000. Whether because of his family, studies, work, or personal interests, his life has been that of a nomad\u2014bringing him to live in various cities in Europe and the Americas from a young age\u2014but his heart has always been in his Mexican roots.<\/p>\n

He currently resides in Atlanta with his wife and three small children. In his own words:<\/p>\n

I used to think that I was a citizen of the world. As I grow older, I realize that \u201cthe homeland calls,\u201d and I try to educate my children in the values I learned in my country: the language, traditions, culture, and cuisine of our Mexico.<\/p>\n

Although one cannot be \u201ca citizen of the world,\u201d I have realized that God gave me the grace of a universal family: that of his Church. It has been incredible for me to confirm over and over again that wherever I go, I have never felt alone or out of place within his Church.<\/p>\n

Many experiences come to mind, such as when I was at college in Amsterdam and went with my friends to visit the local pastor. He opened the doors of the parish and of his heart to us, as did all his staff and parishioners, and beyond \u201cgoing to Mass on Sundays,\u201d it was a place to be part of a family. It might sound strange, but that\u2019s how it was.<\/p>\n

For me, that is a glimpse into what heaven must be: an indescribable sense of peace and belonging to what God certainly wanted for us from the beginning, the Church as a family.<\/p>\n

This happened to me on another occasion with three of my best friends in those years, one from Spain and two from France. When one of my French friends brought us to his house to spend a weekend with his family, everyone, especially his mother, immediately treated us like members of the family. Though I should have felt like I was among strangers, it was the exact opposite; I felt like I was at home.<\/p>\n

During these 24 years in Regnum Christi, Enrique has experienced different roles, such as team leader, director of missions, and Regnum Christi missionary<\/span><\/a>. His vocation to this last stage could be considered \u201clate,\u201d since he fulfilled it at 33 years old, the result of a personal promise he made to God after an accident.<\/p>\n

During this period, he worked in the Regnum Christi Communications Department based out of Rome, juggling projects in Mexico, Madrid, and Atlanta. After his time as a missionary, Enrique stayed united to Regnum Christi as a lay member, prioritizing his vocation and responsibility as a husband and father.<\/p>\n

\u201cI live for my children and my wife. I ask God not to allow me to have a long life just out of vanity, but to be able to see them grow and to form them in his love, if that is his will.<\/p>\n

Cancer<\/b><\/h5>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m not going to deny that the cancer was devastating news at the beginning. I think I experienced all the stages of grief: fear, anger, denial, acceptance. In a few words: not accepting the sickness in itself.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For Enrique, getting the cancer diagnoses was a challenge of accepting reality, a very personal cross that \u201cgave me the opportunity to offer it up for myself and for my family. It has been a beautiful process of purification. Before the cancer, I said that I was aware of my mortality, but I had no idea. From the cancer diagnoses onward, I feel more motivated than ever to remain always in God\u2019s friendship,\u201d Enrique remarks.<\/p>\n

Something that has stood out during this time has been the support of \u201cbrothers and sisters in Christ that God has placed on my path to help me and my family: my Regnum Christi team, the families of Regina Caeli Academy\u2014the Catholic school our children attend\u2014and even my pastor, whom I consider a great friend,\u201d Enrique says.<\/p>\n

The cancer treatment has its challenges. \u201cRight now, I am dealing a lot with throat pain due to the radiation, which makes it very difficult to eat or speak. I try to cope with it while still handling my work in order to support my family. All this has put me in a situation of humble and vulnerable acceptance. God has been there all this time to remind me that, if he \u2018clothes the lilies of the field and feeds the birds, how much more will he provide for us, his children?\u2019 I firmly believe that fighting against my own pride during this experience has been a great blessing and a purifying process that I hope not to forget, regardless of how many years of life God gives me going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Enrique\u2019s diagnoses, his Regnum Christi team and many friends from the Atlanta men\u2019s section have been praying day and night for him and his family. \u201cThey remind me often, and their prayers support me. For the difficulty of driving to my treatment, they organized themselves and made a calendar to take me and bring me back while my wife took care of the children. They set aside their work schedules and the distances involved to give me the generosity of their time. One of them, who lives five hours from Atlanta, drives here just to take me to treatment and back, then goes five hours back home. Sometimes they organize themselves to help us with housework. More recently, when our medical bills got out of control and my medical insurance stopped paying for important treatment, my Regnum Christi team started a GoFundMe<\/span><\/a> campaign to help me fundraise for my treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe aren\u2019t even halfway to the goal yet, but people have been extremely generous, and with the money raised so far, we are more at peace every time we have to cover a new hospital bill. It has been a humbling experience for me to see how very close friends from the parish, my children\u2019s school, and Regnum Christi have helped significantly through GoFundMe, all to assure that my family and I are at peace during this treatment. I\u2019m at a loss for words,\u201d explains Enrique.<\/p>\n

The families from the school Enrique\u2019s children attend have organized a daily meal train so that they have less work of cooking, cleaning, etc. \u201cThe culture of the United States is very supportive, and it is organized for solidarity. The members of my Regnum Christi team have literally been the friends who carried the paralytic man to Christ and broke open the roof of the house to lower the mat. I often tell them that I hope to be able to repay their generosity someday\u2026 but they have set the bar very high!\u201d states Enrique.<\/p>\n

There is light at the end of the tunnel\u2026 with a monarch butterfly<\/b><\/h5>\n
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\u201cMy doctors say this is curable. I have decided to believe them. I receive many \u201csigns from heaven\u201d that it can be.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Enrique shares his experience of these last months:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father died of cancer four years ago. He was my first role model of Christian life, my father as well as my mother. I remember that he always wanted to bring my wife and me to the monarch butterfly sanctuary in Mexico, but his attempts were always foiled for one reason or another.<\/p>\n

Thanks be to God, before passing away, my father received Communion. It was a first Friday in May, the month of Mary, at the hour of the Angelus. The very day of his death, someone who didn\u2019t know anything about my father or about the topic of monarch butterflies sent me a video clip of a Mexican news station, with the presenter saying, \u201cAnd before signing off, we want to leave you with these images.\u201d The video was a series of images of the monarch butterfly sanctuary in Mexico. God speaks to us in many ways.<\/p>\n

From the time my cancer started, the topic of the monarch butterfly has appeared here and there. The day of my biopsy, I was very nervous. I prayed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, that she would accompany me in the process. At that moment, the doctor began to chat with me:<\/p>\n

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  • Where are you from?<\/li>\n
  • From Mexico.<\/li>\n
  • I just went to Mexico with my children! Do you know which was my favorite part? The monarch butterfly sanctuary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    On the day of one of my most important follow-up appointments, the doctor asked me to see him in a different hospital, in Atlanta. In the waiting room, there was a temporary photo exhibition, and the central piece was the monarch butterfly sanctuary in Mexico.<\/p>\n

    Of course, I don\u2019t base my hope on this, and I wouldn\u2019t blame anyone who saw mere coincidences in what are \u201cGod-incidences\u201d for me. But the main point is that God speaks to us in many ways, above all in silence, if we pay attention. They say that the more we pray, the more coincidences we see.<\/p>\n

    On Holy Thursday of this year, 2024, they gave me my medical diagnosis announcing a relapse. It has been the most special Holy Thursday of my life. There is uncertainty, fear of aggressive treatment, and the loneliness that you feel in a personal pain, which no one is going to be able to bear along with you. I felt that only that company of the Suffering Christ could understand and console me in the most difficult moments of solitude.<\/p>\n

    It is so amazing that these are the kinds of moments that let us glimpse\u2014even in a tiny proportion\u2014the solitude that Our Lord experienced the night of Gethsemane! I don\u2019t compare myself at all with Christ\u2019s suffering, but his example prompts me to say every day, \u201cLord, I do not want to pass through this bitter cup, but your will be done in me,\u201d Enrique concludes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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