Holy cards are like little windows into Heaven

Source: newadventaggregator.blogspot.com --- Thursday, December 15, 2016
Holy Cards Are Like Little Windows Into Heaven | ncregister.com CRAUGHWELL: Holy cards are one of the most enduring, most endearing facets of Catholic devotional life. Like family photographs they are tangible reminders of people we love. Nuns and priests, once great distributors of holy cards, appear to have fallen out of the habit of giving them to schoolchildren—which is how I received my first card, from a Redemptorist priest named Father Thomas, when I was six years old. Every week or so Father Thomas visited the classes at my parish school and awarded every child in the room a holy card. I still have it, a little picture of Our Lord standing amid the clouds. ...

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