He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant. (Saint Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr, +1902)
Day: July 6, 2019
Maria Goretti and the Destructive Effects of Lust
It was a day much like today, a hot, humid and sweltering July 6th in the year of our Lord 1902, in a small farming town in the fetid area outside of Rome, when a young girl – she had not yet attained full womanhood – of not-yet twelve years old was viciously stabbed fourteen[…]