It is easy, too easy, to get cynical about the Church due to the misdeeds of clergy at the top. Then you read about someone like Jessica Hanna who walked her own Via Dolorosa out of love for Christ and her child and you understand deep in your bones the glory and grandeur of being a follower of Christ. A good thing to remember during Lent and in all seasons of the Church.
Pray For Us Jessica
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Praying for her husband and small children she left behind. I’m sure that would have been the hardest cross to hear for her.
I’ve followed her story on Instagram, and her extraordinary faith through her cancer battle was something not of this world.
Jessica pray for us.
A true Catholic Christian!
“Ask to name the great ladies of America and you will get Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton and Mother Frances Cabrini and Mother Marianne Cope and Mother Theodore Guerin. There is an instinct to call them Mother as a title even nobler than Saint. It is a reverberation from the Cross, when the Son gave us nothing less than a Mother. It was his last word to the human race before he died.”
– Fr. George W. Rutler – “On the Canonization of Saint Teresa of Calcutta”
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/memories-mother-canonization-saint-teresa-calcutta
May almighty God bless Jessica Hanna and her family.
When Thomas Solanus asks why Mom had to die, Dad will have the privilege of saying “she died to save you from evil men who would have killed you without a second thought.”