Hello everyone. I hope you are well and keeping safe. Happy Sunday! These Sundays come around quickly!
Yesterday, I anointed Marie Ciampanelli in ICU at Lawrence Hospital. She is the wife of Nick. If you come to the 6:45 AM Mass or even other Masses, Nick is the wonderful fellow who opened the church everyday and set up for Mass. Nick himself is not in the best of health. It was so touching to experience the love shared between Nick and his wife in that hospital room. Nick, from his wheelchair, called out to his wife and wept as I anointed her. He spoke to me of how happy his marriage was of over 52 years and how Marie was the best person he had ever known. Would you mind saying a prayer for Marie and for Nick? Thanks
My friends, enjoy the rest of the day. I have Mass at 12 and I will take you with me. I will also have the privilege of baptizing and confirming a new parishioner, Tara Tracey, something I would have done at the Easer Vigil but Mr. Pandemic had other plans! Welcome Tara! May God who has begun the good work in you bring it to completion. Congratulations!
Permit me to leave you with a lovely insight from our friends at Franciscan Media:
How does God speak? Through everything there is. Every thing, every person, every situation, is ultimately the Word. It tells me something and challenges me to respond. Each moment, with all that it contains, spells out the great “yes” in a new and unique way. By making my response, moment by moment, word by word, I myself am becoming the Word that God speaks in me and to me and through me.
—from the book The Way of Silence by Brother David Steindl-Rast