http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/07/26/grandparents-of-the-redeemer/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/07/26/grandparents-of-the-redeemer/comment-page-1/#comment-1638 JoJo Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:40:53 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/07/26/grandparents-of-the-redeemer/#comment-1638 We'll make the trip next time you're home, but I think we should drive! We’ll make the trip next time you’re home, but I think we should drive!

]]> http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/07/26/grandparents-of-the-redeemer/comment-page-1/#comment-1629 Mike Aquilina Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:36:24 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/07/26/grandparents-of-the-redeemer/#comment-1629 My mom was fond of making that walk. She bought us a brick when they renovated St. Anne's Monastery in Scranton. I have to make the trip to see my brick some day. What do you say, JoJo? My mom was fond of making that walk. She bought us a brick when they renovated St. Anne’s Monastery in Scranton. I have to make the trip to see my brick some day. What do you say, JoJo?

]]> http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/07/26/grandparents-of-the-redeemer/comment-page-1/#comment-1628 JoJo Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:27:40 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/07/26/grandparents-of-the-redeemer/#comment-1628 There is a very deep devotion to St. Anne where I, and our favorite Patrisitic scholar, grew up, wherein many who need a special favor walk the 14 miles from our hometown to St. Anne's Basilica. A few years back several people made the special pilgramage asking that my wife and I have a child. It worked! We had two babies that year. We adopted our son and gave birth to our daughter after several doctors had told us it would be all but impossible for us to conceive. Later, I found a wonderful quote which tradition holds are the words spoken to Joachim by the angel: "Yet God does not punish nature but sin; and when He closes a womb, it is only that He might open it wonderously later, so that everyone may know that the child born of it is not the fruit of lust, but the reward of divine generosity." There is a very deep devotion to St. Anne where I, and our favorite Patrisitic scholar, grew up, wherein many who need a special favor walk the 14 miles from our hometown to St. Anne’s Basilica. A few years back several people made the special pilgramage asking that my wife and I have a child. It worked! We had two babies that year. We adopted our son and gave birth to our daughter after several doctors had told us it would be all but impossible for us to conceive. Later, I found a wonderful quote which tradition holds are the words spoken to Joachim by the angel: “Yet God does not punish nature but sin; and when He closes a womb, it is only that He might open it wonderously later, so that everyone may know that the child born of it is not the fruit of lust, but the reward of divine generosity.”

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