Tag: shootings

I am not Charlie. I am not AFDI. I am not a Shooter.

.Reading time 10 minutes.

In the wake of a shooting last night, at an anti-Islamic event that took place in Garland, I am drawn to this section of the powerful Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi: “O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; […]

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What We Owe The Christmas Angels

.Reading time 21 minutes.

We are still grieving. I am still grieving. It was around noon yesterday when I saw the news alert for this shooting come across my phone. I burst into tears. Twenty young children, the most innocent and helpless members of our society, cut down by what will most certainly be judged to be a mentally […]

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