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home big enough to warrant constant maintenance.
Weekend home improvement
stints with his father were the extent of Brady’s handy-man training,
as he spent 38 years working corporate jobs at Nestle, the chocolate
manufacturer Brady believes makes
“the best chocolate in the world.”
Remaining a devout Catholic
throughout his life, it was a Sunday mass in 2000 — just a couple
of weeks shy of his retirement —
that spurred Brady to action, after hearing the story of his namesake, Saint Peter.
“And upon this rock I build my
church,” quotes Brady, referring to
Jesus Christ’s words to his apostle
Peter, naming him as his successor
and head of the Catholic church as
the first Pope.
“What really caught me was, I
was sitting in the front row and the
pastor was talking about Saint Peter and the great things he did for
others. My name was Peter, and I
was going to retire,” he says, going
on to explain how he approached
his pastor in the hopes of helping
the elderly in the parish.
His group, which he dubbed
a ministry, operated from their
church for the f