Gianna Molla

Blessed Gianna Molla will be canonized tomorrow. I am so thrilled that this will be my son Gabe’s first communion day as well. Something we can always treasure and a saint we can always call on.

What is even more unique about her story is that on Sunday, her husband, Pietro, and three of the four children (the third daughter died in childhood) will be sitting in the front rows to witness an extraordinary moment in their family and in the life of their church. In an age when permanent commitment is widely discouraged, when human life is cheap and disposable and family life is under siege, when abortion is all too available, when sacrifice and virtue are absent in so many lives; when, I would argue, many in the medical profession have little concern for the dignity and sacredness of every human life; when suffering is seen as a nuisance without any redemptive meaning; when goodness, joy, simplicity and beauty are suspect; Gianna Beretta Molla shows this world, gripped by a culture of death, an alternative gospel way of compelling beauty.

Thanks Alicia for the link.

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