Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
Baby smiles are irresistible, especially when you are the object of the little one’s delight. We have a smiling 4-month-old in our home right now. His siblings and parents will do any number of antics to make him grin. But, more often than not, the most rewarding smiles are those that extend across his face when a person he knows merely walks into his field of vision and he recognizes them.
Thank you, Bishop Jugis, for the Year of St. Joseph. He is the patron and protector of the Church, patron of the sick and patron of fathers, among many other titles. But another patronage may have puzzled some of you as it did me, at least when I first heard of it: patron of a “happy death.”