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!