\n I met many many awesome people in Uganda. Three were little sisters of Mary Immaculate from the north where there are atrocities of demonic proportions rampaging and desecrating God\u2019s people in ways that are incomprehensible, and there are the sisters. And here are we with the availability of God\u2019s amazing grace to be in communion with them and with one another in the sufferings we see and don\u2019t even see, with everyone everywhere. May the riches of the Mystery Christ Jesus renew us, refresh us and redeem the resisting dimensions of our hearts minds and histories so that \u2026so that\u2026. Lord have Mercy\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2026. so that Jesus may find us ready and alive for Love – Love to be received, Love to be given, Love to be for real, Love to be for ever carrying us along one with another, one day after another right into that day which knows no end and needs no light from the sun\u2026. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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