From the Crucified spoke a tender, kind voice, a voice a parent might use in addressing an obedient but rather uncomprehending child. "Francis, don't you see that my house is being destroyed? Go, then, and rebuild it for me."In grammar school, the nuns took us to see a film about St. Francis. Afterwards, when we were discussing the movie in class, my nun told us that there was a some kind of connection between St. Francis/Padre Pio and the San Damiano Crucifix/stigmata.
Forgive me for not remembering more details about an event that occurred about a half-century ago.
You were more blessed than us! I vividly recall going to the auditorium to watch a movie on the Distant Early Warning line. On the one hand, it was comforting to know that we had surveillance equipment along a northern perimeter (to protect us from invading communists ;-); on the other hand, it was frightening to ponder what would happen if they should break through the line.
Did you attend school in Forest Hills?