Gettysburg, PA

My parish is blessed to have working with us George Wunderlich, the Executive Director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and a candidate for permanent Deaconate.  Yesterday he took parishioners, including myself, on a private tour of Emmittsburg and Gettysburg from a Catholic perspective. It was an incredible experience!  Of course, being me, I didn't get the normal kind of pictures that tourists do - the window where the ghost sniper is said to haunt or the canon ball still stuck in the wall of an old building.  No, I spent all of my time being amazed by the architecture and blue skies!  Here are 2 pics of one of my favorite buildings:  St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, which was turned into a temporary hospital during the battle of Gettysburg, July 1863.

 I wish we still loved God and Country enough to proudly emblazon it across our churches and public buildings.

Love the Cross reaching up towards Heaven into the unending blue skies!

Whale tail

You really appreciate God's creation when you go out on a boat and meet up with one of these. Absolutely breathtaking! (The whale, not my picture. My timing failed miserably.)