[Oldcath-l] FW: Comfort, Comfort my People

[+ Marty]

Let us pray for the living and dead in this terrible tragedy! Fr. Curtis
sent me this today and I thought it was worth forwarding.

Blessings,
 
+Marty

Oremus
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis J Tilleraas [mailto:cjtilleraa at loretel.net] 
from FRC website
Comfort, Comfort My People

 
This morning we all woke up wishing that yesterday's tragedy was just
a bad dream. Instead, we got ready for work feeling a little more
vulnerable, hugging our kids just a little bit tighter, and trying
desperately to make sense of it all. For many of us, the bloody
horrors at Virginia Tech served as a sudden and painful reminder that
we live in a fallen world where man is capable of unthinkable evil.
As the media hastens to report every raw detail and parents struggle
to overcome the fears now rekindled from Columbine, we wonder if
America--like Virginia Tech--will ever be the same. Yet on a day
scarred by sorrow and disbelief, there are still glimpses of selfless
courage--men and women who, in the tradition of our great nation,
paid the ultimate price to protect others. Students of Liviu Librescu
are alive today because their professor used his own body to block a
classroom doorway as the gunman approached. This hero, who survived
the Holocaust only to give his life for his students, is one reason
the death toll is not larger. And there are countless others.
Policemen who rushed the stairwells, carrying out wounded. Students
who helped others leap to safety. And friends, whose only service was
offering a shoulder for people to cry on. As Benjamin Franklin once
said, "Those things that hurt, instruct." In a world where
make-believe violence is entertainment, may Americans finally refuse
to pay the real-life price. In a country that seeks to silence God in
its schools, may skeptics finally realize that on days like this, He
cannot be shut out. I pray that as we carry in our hearts and in our
prayers the memories of those lost, we also hold on to our hunger for
goodness and virtue so that these innocent people have not have died
in vain. 

"In the beginning was the Word; and the Word was with God