I wept and laughed about Pope Francis’ Leyte trip

MY wife and I watched every moment of Pope Francis’ trip to Leyte, as provided by cable telecasts, for which we are grateful. We placed ourselves in every scene, just as one does (following the advise of St. Josemaria Escriva) when contemplatively reading the Gospels. Be as if you were another, a minor, character in the scene.

My wife reminded me that the televised Mass at the Tacloban airport was a perfectly valid one for us—except that ours would have to be a Spiritual Communion and not a physical one. But it turned out that all of the (I think) three to five thousand faithful in the quadrants also ended up only having Holy Communion Spiritually because Our Lord’s body in the consecrated host was not distributed. The steady rain and the storm winds made it impossible.