”Woman, you have great faith! Your wish will come to pass” (Matthew 15:28).
A New Jersey-based priest tells of a beautiful scene he once witnessed while driving along a busy thruway:
I was driving along on the Garden State Parkway on my way home … The woman in the car ahead of me was talking. Although I could not see anyone else in the car, she really seemed to be talking with someone since she kept turning her head in the direction of the passenger side of the car … I finally managed to drive up alongside her and could see that there was a person next to her, a small boy who had Down’s Syndrome. He was smiling as the woman, whom I imagined to be his mother, showered him with an affectionate cascade of words.
I was struck by the contrast between the unfolding love in that car and the surrounding symptoms of cultural madness. The American highway, crammed with cars and people…
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