May 8

FRATERNITY is feeling the presence of the Holy Spirit

The people honored Joshua all his life, just as they had honored Moses.  ~ Joshua 4:14

Alec Guinness played the British colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai.  His autobiography, Blessings in Disguise, describes a moving episode that began to thaw his anti-Catholicism and prepare the way for his becoming a Catholic. 
He was in a film being shot in France.  One night, dressed as a priest, he was walking to the film site.  A small boy ran up, grabbed his hand, swung it playfully, and prattled on nonstop.
Alec wrote:  “He obviously took me for a priest and so to be trusted. Suddenly with a ‘Bon soir, mon pere’... he disappeared... I was left with an odd calm sense of elation. 
Continuing my walk, I reflected that a Church which could inspire such confidence in a child, making its priests... so easily approachable could not be as scheming and creepy as so often made out.”  ~ Mark Link, S.J.

What kind of reverence do you have for persons and things linked to God?  How are Knights passing on this reverence to younger generations?

Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel your presence in my spirit.~ John Henry Newman

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