I'll write about it! (Didn't that sound so NYC?)
(Pictured, OL Sorrows, 9/11. I don't really like the icon but I appreciate the sentiment, the devotion, the empathy, the sorrow that went into it.)
I am really very pleased that the entire nation is stopping to remember this tragedy. Do you realize fragments of bone and other human pieces are yet being found on rooftops in downtown Manhattan? I do not want people to forget. As Fr. Welzbacher pointed out in his homily today, it appears Osama bin Laden had a symbolic purpose in the date - which coincided with an earlier attack on Western Civilization in the siege of Vienna by the Turks. They were defeated in 1683 by John Sobieski on the following day, the 12th of September. (Hence the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, up until then a locus sancti feast day, was extended to the Universal Church in gratitude to Our Lady for the victory. It is one of the great victories attributed to Our Lady through the prayers of the Most Holy Rosary.) Yet bin Laden seems to have been sending the signal that the reconquest had begun once again on 9/11 - or was it Heaven's warning that it had?
On that fateful day I was just ready to turn off "Good Morning America" on my way to work. Dianne Sawyer and Charlie Gibson broke in with footage of the first tower with smoke billowing out, saying a plane may have hit it. As I watched another plane flew into the second tower. I saw it live! I dropped to my knees, crossing myself, knowing immediately we were under attack. I wept and prayed. I drove to work, listening to the news, praying the chaplet, weeping. Everyone knows the rest.
There has been the 100 years war, 30 years war, many long wars in the history of the world. This war has been called the war on terrorism, a global war. It's a world war. It's going to last a long, long, long time. Unless Our Lady intercedes, as she did at Lepanto and Vienna. Militant Islam has a patience of biblical proportions - never underestimate the oriental intelligence. It's so not over. We have not won any war yet.
Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
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