Heart and Soul: Father Adamski

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Peter Adamski seemed to have it all. At 19, he had met Kathy, the love of his life and the woman he would marry. In his 20s, he landed a prestigious job with the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, jetting around the world in first class for business meetings. He had a healthy baby boy, John, his wealth soared into the millions, and he owned three houses. He was living the American dream. But everything changed when he and Kathy received the news from a doctor: "Kathy, you have early-onset Alzheimer’s." The future they had envisioned together was abruptly replaced by the prospect of a long, painful farewell. After Kathy’s passing, Peter felt as though he had lost all sense of meaning - until one night, he felt a profound call from God. At 65, he became a Catholic priest, and he believes his life has never been more fulfilling.

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0:00.0	Enter. Hey, Father Peter.
0:04.4	Hello, Colin. Welcome.
0:06.4	This is Father Peter Adamsky, a Catholic priest living in Stratford, Connecticut in the USA. I'm in his kitchen early in the USA.
0:12.8	I'm in his kitchen early in the morning for a coffee and his phone rings.
0:18.0	Hey John, how are you?
0:20.0	Hey Dad, I'm all right.
0:22.0	Where are you? Are you home? Were you at Fordham?
0:25.0	Uh, no, I'm home. I'm grading final, well, yeah, I'm grading final exams for Fordham.
0:30.0	So John, I'll be coming down on Sunday after my five o'clock mass, so I should get there, you know, around 8 o'clock.
0:37.3	I look forward to seeing you, buddy.
0:39.1	All right, sounds good. Hope you get a parking spot.
0:41.5	Love you. Love you, love you too.
0:43.7	Bye bye.
0:45.4	It's not something you usually hear in the Catholic Church,
0:48.4	a priest saying, I love you to his son.
0:51.8	And in his living room, he's showing me some of his old pictures.
0:54.8	The wedding album. The wedding album. What age were you when you got married? I was 20
1:02.1	years old Colin. What did you think when you first saw her? Oh my gosh Colin on the
1:07.1	campus of Rutgers University I went up the stairs looking for my class and I saw this vision this woman with this huge
1:15.4	main of red curly hair and a purple rib sweater and bell-bottom dungarese with the fringe on the bottom and she was leaning up against this brick wall.
1:26.6	I mean, love at first sight. On the wall is a large picture of Kathy that Peter took.
1:33.3	She's sitting at a table outside a cafe looking straight into the camera
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