Fri Dec 24, 2021 – 12:30 pm ESTThu Dec 23, 2021 – 7:47 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) – To say this has been the hardest year of my life, sounds cliché. Given what is going on in the world today, it may be a familiar refrain in many of our lives. For most of us, we have not lived through a world war, but now we have been thrown into one and it came upon us like a storm. Tragically, most don’t yet realize we are in the midst of a third world war.
Many of you already know of the suffering my daughter Mary-Catherine went through this year with her diagnosis of Hashimoto’s Encephalitis. We had to pull her out of college and she continues to experience seizures regularly.
Our family is experiencing the same pressures as most, except with eight children, half in their twenties, it is a bit exaggerated. Seeing your children suspended from jobs, college and high school sports, and not being able to travel out of province, go to restaurants, movies etc is painful. The loss of the Mass, even for a short time, was a nightmare and being forbidden from receiving Holy Communion on the tongue inside the Mass is disturbing.
But, by far, the most
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors