who saved 2500 Jewish children from death during the Holocaust.<\/a>\u00a0 She personifies the truth that grace is dark matter, hidden, quiet, unnoticed by the whole world, and yet constituting the force that hold the universe together. \u00a0How many Irena Sendlers are there that go utterly unnoticed in this life and yet who are, in fact, the main story about whom all of history really centered while the tyrants and movie stars we thought were the central story came and went?<\/p>\nIf Jesus is to be believed, when the real history of the world is finally told \u00a0on That Day, it is going to largely be supposed \u201cnobodies\u201d who will finally be given by all of us the fame they so far only enjoy with God and his angels and saints. \u00a0Not a bad public that. \u00a0But there is a reason that the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin is a mystery of the Rosary. \u00a0She stands for all the unheralded nobodies who, like Queen Helen in The Magician\u2019s Nephew<\/em> who will be finally receive their exaltation and public acclamation when Christ comes again in glory to judge the living and the dead.<\/p>\nMaranatha and have mercy on me a sinner, Lord Jesus.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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