My first memory is of the
crucifix in my boyhood parish, Holy Name in Birmingham, Michigan. I do not know how old I was, but I knew Jesus
had died for me and my whole life was suppose to be a
response to this. This is certainly not a typical first memory but my family was anything but typical. My father, John, was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board for the Chrysler Corporation, and also a devout Catholic.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Russian Babushka’s Rebuild Church
St. Francis heard God’s call from a crucifix and the
faithful Russian grandmothers heard God’s call from a cell phone.
When St. Francis, knelt before the crucifix in the broken down church of San Damiano in the Italian town of Assisi, it was a moment that changed the world. “Francis, go rebuild my church, which is falling down,” he heard Christ say to him.
Francis had given up his wealth so he rebuilt San Damiano by begging for
the supplies. For a group of eight Russian grandmothers, in the
300-hundred-year-old village of Buranova, they are rebuilding their church
through singing and dancing. They’ve become a hip group, flying across the
country giving concerts and donating much of their proceeds to rebuild the Church
of the Trinity, which had long ago been destroyed during Stalin’s rule.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)