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The miracle at Fatima
Ed feels close to this miracle and message as he is a good part Portugese, altho' from the Azores.
This is the sunrise reflecting off the roof of the barn across the creek (see celticvoice) yesterday - I stood on a chair and zoomed to get this.
The "stained glass" is a pretty good size; it's a copy of an original, we got it through a Catholic organization (Oblates of Mary Immaculate - www.obaltesusa.org) who do missionary work all over the world, incluing HERE in S. Dakota on the Sisseton Reervation.
I love them simply because, on the first retreat I did, I met one of their priests (from the Irish province of OMI!) - he was on leave from his work in then-apartheid-controlled S. Africa to study at GTU (Berkeley, CA). A wonderful man, great confessor and director. He was there for a year then went back to his mission; he sent me a beautiful postcard of grapes from there. I wish I still had it but I lost two scrap/photo albums moving here.
Lent is (in part) about loss and repentance as in restoration of the cleanliness of the soul, culminating in Easter. I was studying for my baptism (at the Easter Vigil, WOW!)in 1977 during Lent - thirty years ago.
Ironically, Easter this year is on my "no-god-no!" brother Jan's birthday, April 8th! In his last months he actually talked about spirituality with me! The local priest (to him, not me, I was already here in S. Dakota, he was still in CA) - who was not the same fellow as when I lived there - saw him in the hospital before and after he woke up - Jan liked him so I asked him on behalf of Jan's widow to be at his memeorial. He was there.
God works in mysterious ways.
My other brother, Keith, came to my baptism; he was engagaed to be married to a Catholic lady; he was in instruction for baptism when he died and we were allowed to have a Catholic Mass in his memory (no funeral - he didn't want one) and the priest who waws instructing him got the Bishop of Reno to call us (outta the BLUE) to offer us the use of the Cathedral in Reno! - the call came right in the middle of a tangled conversation in his living room about "where-were-we-going-to-celebrate-his-rising?" At the Mass my "NOT-GOD!-NO" father (baptised and raised somewhat Catholic) TOOK COMMUNION!! - again, the Lord works in mysterious ways!
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