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Thank you dear Mother for taking me to where you wanted me on the Solemnity of the Annunciation. You always let me know where you want me with you on each of your feast days. This time, on April 8, 2024, it would be St. Patrick’s Basilica. What I learned only a week before is that a total solar eclipse would be happening the same day. That’s no coincidence. Comets, binary stars, galaxies, black holes and quasars. God created it all, beautifully made to display his infinite power. Within such majesty, He loves to play for us so we can gaze with constant childlike awe. It’s a never-ending abyss of intense grandeur. Carl Sagan said, “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” This time, close to home, He wanted His mother to eclipse the eclipse on the Solemnity of the Annunciation. The anniversary of your hearing Gabriel tell you, a virgin, that you would conceive by the Holy Spirit’s power, God’s Son, our Saviour Jesus, made a solar eclipse seem insignificant by compariso
St Gregory of Nyssa
The power of God is capable of finding hope where hope no longer exists, and a way where the way is impossible.
2 Cor 4: 16-18
Therefore, we are not discouraged; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.
In The Harsh Mid-Winter
In the harsh mid-winter
Night air fills with snow
Gentle flakes like angels
Settle on fingered trees,
Once holding warblers
Now cradling snow with ease.
Light from candled windows
Stretches to a stable
Across the frozen fields.
Men whose prayer and labour
Brought life to birth from fertile soil
Now rest their longing hearts
In the harsh-midwinter
Snow, like angels fills the air.
In that white pine manger
Wrapped in swaddling clothes
The Virgin holds her baby
As choirs of gentle angles
Echo through the hills
Glory to God in the highest
Glory to God in the Highest.
ACTS 4:11-12
"This Jesus is ‘the stone that was rejected by you, the builders; it has become the cornerstone.’ There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among human beings by which we must be saved."
