In my homily last evening at our Sunday Vigil Mass, I didn’t mention yesterday’s mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. But awakened with the news of a second mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, in the early hours of this morning, I want to say something about this evil that is abroad in our country in our lifetime. Living and working at Saint Mary’s, I know I listen and worry when I hear the sirens of more than one ambulance at a time passing by the church. Things have happened here, and evil things can happen here again.
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