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20/09/2012
John McAreavey: Michaela's Faith Has Helped Me
The husband of Michaela McAreavey has said his Catholic faith helped him through her loss and the time after her murder.
Speaking in an interview on a DVD produced for the archdiocese of Armagh. John McAreavey said he still feels married.
He said: "I miss her a lot you know, God I miss her but I just have to try to accept that I have Michaela in a different way now. Our relationship has changed but I still have her. I always kind of felt that God for me was always there so Michaela had this unwavering faith.
"She forever talked about God's plan, even in football.
"If I'd had a bad day she would say, 'just have patience, it will all work out for you, there is a wider picture there', so there was this plan and unfortunately it's not the way I wanted it to be, but I knew that Michaela believed in it so it gave me the strength to believe in that.
"She's my wife and it might be difficult for people to get that but that's the way I feel and thank God for it and long may it continue."
Mr McAreavey found his new wife strangled to death in the couple's honeymoon suite on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in January 2011, days after their wedding.
A second police investigation has been opened after two hotel workers, Sandip Moneea and Avinash Treebhoowoon, were cleared of Mrs McAreavey's murder in July this year.
The DVD on which Mr McAreavey appears features reflections from laypeople.
Entitled 'A Calling For Everyone', it will be distributed across the Archdiocese of Armagh.
(NE)
Speaking in an interview on a DVD produced for the archdiocese of Armagh. John McAreavey said he still feels married.
He said: "I miss her a lot you know, God I miss her but I just have to try to accept that I have Michaela in a different way now. Our relationship has changed but I still have her. I always kind of felt that God for me was always there so Michaela had this unwavering faith.
"She forever talked about God's plan, even in football.
"If I'd had a bad day she would say, 'just have patience, it will all work out for you, there is a wider picture there', so there was this plan and unfortunately it's not the way I wanted it to be, but I knew that Michaela believed in it so it gave me the strength to believe in that.
"She's my wife and it might be difficult for people to get that but that's the way I feel and thank God for it and long may it continue."
Mr McAreavey found his new wife strangled to death in the couple's honeymoon suite on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in January 2011, days after their wedding.
A second police investigation has been opened after two hotel workers, Sandip Moneea and Avinash Treebhoowoon, were cleared of Mrs McAreavey's murder in July this year.
The DVD on which Mr McAreavey appears features reflections from laypeople.
Entitled 'A Calling For Everyone', it will be distributed across the Archdiocese of Armagh.
(NE)
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