I place myself instead of that priest celebrating Mass surrounded by happy children, just starting another scholastic year. I’ve done that in my US parishes hundreds of times, and at the end, I always end up hugged by little children, after being complimented for doing a great job in reading the prayers of the faithful, bringing up the offertory gifts, helping as altar-servers, and being so reverent around the altar. That scene replayed itself in hundreds of Catholic school in America yesterday, but in one parish in Minnesota, the Annunciation church and school the unthinkable happened as 2 children were killed and another 17 injured, most of them children as they were praying in church. A deranged ex-student, armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol, emptied his ammunition on innocent children, causing irreparable damage also to other students who witnessed their friends die next to them. This was the 44th school shooting this year in the USA. We’ve heard it before, we’ve seen it happen before our very eyes, and yet, as parents grieve their children, criminals can still buy guns and revolvers as if they’re buying candy, popcorn or baseball cards. Please pray for Minnesota and those grieving parents.
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