{"id":571,"date":"2008-04-18T15:44:33","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T15:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/04\/beauty-and-healing-among-the-saints.html"},"modified":"2008-04-18T15:44:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T15:44:33","slug":"beauty-and-healing-among-the-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/04\/beauty-and-healing-among-the-saints.html","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and Healing Among the Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to commentor Gerry who mentioned this wonderful story from the LATimes:<\/a><\/p>\n

A priest once asked her not how she does it, but why — for 23 years, when she could have been elsewhere, when much of her flock cannot pray, or dance or sing. Where else, she asked him, could she walk each day among saints?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Thanks to commentor Gerry who mentioned this wonderful story from the LATimes: A priest once asked her not how she does it, but why — for 23 years, when she could have been elsewhere, when much of her flock cannot pray, or dance or sing. 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