His history with members of the College runs as long as his tenure with the church.
Gomes married Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Public Health James L. Nuzzo and his wife and baptized each of their children. Along the way he has encouraged them to look at matters of faith and confront religious questions.
With each major life event Gomes has encouraged the Nuzzo family to think about their religious values.
"He asks questions like 'What about the church in your lives?' 'How will you bring up your children?'" Nuzzo says.
For Brian D. Sadie, a museum attendant at the Fogg and Sackler museums, Gomes' lectures have led him to re-examine the Bible and its teachings.
"His sermons managed to hold me," Sadie says. "I had lost my childhood belief in the old texts."
Gomes serves as a religious role model to some at Harvard.
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