sentences:  Rather, he generously and joyfully accepted the call to lead the Church in the Southern Highlands, and gave his life to that task for 36 years.Now late into his eighties and with failing health, Bishop Firmin lives in a retirement home near the Capuchin friary in Victoria, Kansas.They Planted the Good News and Helped it Grow
  
  The Catholic Church would not have taken root in the Southern Highlands had not the Spirit of God prepared the people of this land to accept the Gospel of Christ so readily into their lives.