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Father Purcell told of how he felt helpless during the siege, so he, too, turned to prayer.
1 posted on 12/18/2014 4:53:20 AM PST by NYer
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This reminds me of another priest, Msgr. Ignace Sadek.

On September 11, 2001, Monsignor Ignace Sadek, an elderly Catholic priest in Brooklyn, rushed down to the waterfront to pray for the dead and dying as the towers burned. When the first tower came down, the vast and choking cloud of ash lumbered across the harbor to the shores of Brooklyn. No one knew what poisons were in that cloud, but that old priest stood there with his hands raised in prayer, and with terrified strangers falling at his feet begging for absolution for their sins. He stood gracefully by the waterfront with his hands up in the air... giving the last rites, in the name of Jesus Christ, to thousands of dying people he didn't even know and who never had a chance before their untimely death.

2 posted on 12/18/2014 4:53:56 AM PST by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: NYer
There's no atheists in foxholes, so 'tis said.

Leni

7 posted on 12/18/2014 6:24:48 AM PST by MinuteGal
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