Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts

Sunday, March 23, 2008

5 Years

We've been in Iraq for 5 years. I was a senior in high school and strangely it seems so long ago now.

This prayer circle meets every Wednesday, rain, snow or wind, to promote peace.

prayer circle

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Veterans Mass

Quite a few veterans turned out and current service men and women. One of the parishioners was being deployed to Iraq on Tuesday (which was yesterday). So the entire church prayed for him and his family and called his family up to the altar. His wife, holding their 10 day old son, was crying so hard I couldn't focus on her. I did for a second and started crying and decided that wasn't the important part of the story even though it showed the most emotion. I felt the community standing in front of them with their hands in the air and how they almost resembled a holy family standing up there praying for safety was where I wanted to focus. I wish I could have gotten more hands in the air in the frame but I see that looking back now.