The Easter Vigil was especially meaningful this year to Barbara Jones, an 82-year-old grandmother, married 61 years, and Texas DPS employee living in Leander.
Your tension is not about whether, but how much, help to give or, as you put it, it’s between “no matter what the cost” and “everything we reasonably can.”
We believe people have a right and a duty to participate in society, seeking together the common good and well-being of all, especially the poor and vulnerable.
One sleeting afternoon in downtown Chicago, walking to our theater destination, my 70-something mother abruptly stopped, unhooked her arm from mine, and asked me for money.
When you vowed at your wedding to remain faithful to one another “in sickness and in health,” the sickness part included that aching “soul sickness” of grief.