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The Vickers family will enter the Church at the 2024 Easter vigil Mass. (photo: Courtesy photo / Courtesy photo)
By Martin Barillas, EWTN News, March 30, 2024
Martin Barillas is a writer and translator, having once served as a U.S. diplomat in Europe and South America. A lifelong Catholic, he resides in Michigan with his wife Alice and their four children and grandchild. He has written on a variety of topics, including human rights, politics and religion. He is also a novelist.
It was the ‘children who started asking questions about faith.’
MUSKEGON, Mich. — The Vickers family of Michigan will set out on a journey of faith at the Easter vigil Mass while their relatives and friends lend support and prayers.
Dr. Dan Vickers, 50, a radiologist, and his family live in Muskegon, a city on the shore of Lake Michigan, and had been seeking a church home but had not found the right place. “I have a wonderful family and a practice I love. It’s the American dream,” Vickers told the Register. “But something was missing. There was a ‘God hole.’” His wife, Alex, 43, said much the same, adding, “It was my children who started asking questions about faith, and it was my sister who helped us along the way.”
The Vickers and their daughter, Ally, 15, and son, Anderson, 13, considered themselves Christian and had attended various Protestant congregations but had not remained at any. …
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