A Reply to Love
from the foot of the cross
Finally, the long-awaited day for Peyton and Maria arrived.
“As someone who has always had a strong relationship with the Lord, I had a deep understanding that I wanted to further my relationship with Him by being marked for Christ, becoming His child, and belonging to His one and true Church.” - Peyton
Fr. Tim has been a good friend of our community for many years - he is a priest of the Diocese of Steubenville, OH.
To begin this post, allow me to quote again from the selection from “God Is Near Us” (by Joseph Ratzinger) which inspired this series:
With God, all things are possible (Luke 1:26-38).
I sat on a mat close to the rock altar, playing with a rock as I prayed to Jesus. I thought about where I was - in the Holy Land in the middle of a war.
I was so utterly filled up that from my time at the Basilica of the Annunciation that I exclaimed to one of the missionaries on the way back to our site, “If this was all that happened on this pilgrimage, it’d be okay. I could go home and still be satisfied.”
