Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply
Another tiring week, so dissimilar from the final one. At least now I am not sick, and my representative has almost returned. Yesterday I spent the dawn with my wonderful priest friend. He looked better. We had a grand time as always. He liked my soup. When we pray, I look so much peace. We share stories. He listens to my adventures and offers a perspective.
With about 40 of the over 100 hostages taken during last night's Mass at Baghdad's Syrian-Catholic cathedral now reported to have been killed in the attack, at today's Angelus for All Saints Day, the Pope made the following appeal, translated here from the original Italian:Last evening, in a severe attack on the Syriac-Catholic cathedral of Baghdad, there were dozens of deaths and injuries, among them two priests and a grouping of the congregation there for Sunday's Holy Mass.