You are loved more than you know.

“We’ve started smothering the homeless people in their sleep!” 

Pope Francis inspired by Pope John Paul II to say rosary daily

“If I remember well it was 1985,” Cardinal Bergoglio wrote. “One evening I went to recite the Holy Rosary that was being led by the Holy Father. He was in front of everybody, on his knees. The group was numerous; I saw the Holy Father from the back and, little by little, I got lost in prayer. I was not alone: I was praying in the middle of the people of God to which I and all those there belonged, led by our Pastor.”

“In the middle of the prayer I became distracted, looking at the figure of the Pope: his piety, his devotion was a witness,” he continued. “And the time drifted away, and I began to imagine the young priest, the seminarian, the poet, the worker, the child from Wadowice… in the same position in which knelt at that moment, reciting Ave Maria after Ave Maria. His witness struck me.”

Cardinal Bergoglio added, in words translated by 30 Days magazine:

I felt that this man, chosen to lead the Church, was following a path up to his Mother in the sky, a path set out on from his childhood. And I became aware of the density of the words of the Mother of Guadalupe to Saint Juan Diego: “Don’t be afraid, am I not perhaps your mother?” I understood the presence of Mary in the life of the Pope. 

NYTimes: Lennart Nilsson, Photographer Who Unveiled the Invisible – an innovative Swedish photographer whose micro-cameras bared some of life’s previously impenetrable and breathtaking moments — most memorably a human embryo’s maturation from the instant a sperm cell fertilizes an egg — died on Saturday in Stockholm. He was 94.

Dear God,

Please help those people in Aleppo find refuge and please keep them safe. Lord, please help the people attacking them find their way back to goodness. Lord, I ask you to help all those families stay strong and get through this difficult time for them.