A Tribute to Walter Matthews, Retired Director

from George Martin

Former NSC Executive Committee Member

I served on the National Service Committee in the mid 1980s. Afterwards I retreated into my den to write full-time about Scripture, and I largely lost contact with the national renewal. To try to stay abreast, I would call Walter every October to get his perspective on the state of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, what was happening, where things seemed to be headed. Walter always had his finger on the pulse and would graciously fill me in. Every year I came away from our lengthy conversations with even greater respect for Walter and his service of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. I am in grateful awe of his persistence in the vineyard through the long heat of the day, quietly and patiently bringing in the harvest.