"Faith consists in believing when it
is beyond the power of reason to believe."
~ Voltaire
I recently
attended a 30th wedding anniversary celebration for a couple. It was very special for a number of reasons
-- the most significant one was that the husband, although relatively young,
had gone through a health crisis in the last couple of months. The couple's parish priest celebrated a
beautiful Mass, which included friends reading who had read at the original
wedding three decades before. The couple
renewed their vows. They served as
Eucharistic ministers. And at the end of
the Mass, the husband, a physician, stood up and thanked everyone for their
prayers -- their prayers for him and their prayers for his wife, which
sustained her through very trying weeks.
It was a wonderful testament to the kindness and love between a husband
and a wife, the kindness of community and the power of faith.
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