Three Days is a Lifetime

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We searched for the Isaiah verse when planning Matthias' funeral with no knowledge that it was the reading the morning he was born.

That is why we chose it for his headstone and why we never miss a Holy Tuesday Mass. That morning, as I was having emergency surgery God had ordered all things.

Father Michael Mary’s prayer was being answered. It was a tremendous blessing of getting to hold and spend time with Matthias when most Trisomy 18 babies don’t survive birth.