Mastermind of Chilean miner rescue looks to become deacon next year

[Michie]

Cypress, Texas, Oct 14, 2010 / 05:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday, the world watched in anticipation as 33 Chilean miners finally began to emerge through a narrow shaft, drilled half a mile below the earth. The extraordinary man who helped save them, Drillers Supply International co-owner Greg Hall, is also training to become a deacon in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston next February.

CNA spoke to his wife Angelica Hall (with whom he runs Drillers Supply) on Wednesday, about her husband's service to the Church, and the role their Catholic faith had played in helping them plan the rescue.

While the trapped miners were surviving on food rations lowered into a shaft too small to pull them to safety, Greg Hall was working --and praying-- to determine how a larger opening could be drilled. “We're prayerful people,” Angelica Hall remarked. “Prayer is a part of our daily life … and part of our community at Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church.”

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[eastcoast_bsc]

Thats cool. You could feel that they were a spiritual people. Not that they are perfect, but there were so many outward signs of their faith during the ordeal.

I was so caught up in the whole thing. It was one of those events in life, that we are all stripped of arrogances that we can handle things.

I have claustrophobia and could not imagine the thought of being trapped below the earth.

 

[WarriorAngel]

Wow, that's wonderful news - and big news to go along with this situation.

 

[TexasCatholic]

He's also an AGGIE (a graduate of Texas A&M University for those who don't know).... Texas engineering and Texas Catholic values prevail