Last year I posted a Catholic News Agency story about a saintly young Catholic, Gloria Strauss, who died of cancer at the age of seven. It was one of the most extraordinary stories of heroic sanctity that I had ever read, and in one so young. Well, I was happy to see in this following story that Gloria’s Angels are still doing such wonderful work.
CNA reports: Mike Hemmer can’t remember the plane crash that left him critically injured last Lent, but he does recall the awe he felt when a priest anointed him a few days later in an Amsterdam hospital. “I remember just kind of an overwhelming feeling of wow, this is for me,” said Hemmer, who has always had a strong Catholic faith. “It was powerful.” God’s grace has been evident in many ways for Hemmer, his wife Shirley, and their three children in the year since the 2009 Ash Wednesday crash that injured 86 and claimed the lives of nine people, including three of Hemmer’s Boeing colleagues sitting nearby. Read more here.
