Remembering a Death and The Resurrection

Today we attended mass at St. Mary's in Painesville. The service was beautiful and the music was glorious with the flute and Irish whistle playing of Mary Ann Ratchko-Gamez and the piano playing of Francesco.

On the way home we drove through the most beautiful areas of Lake County, in Painesville, Leroy, and Concord Townships, along Big Creek (down beautiful Cascade Road). This was early spring in Northern Ohio--at its most beautiful. At some point it dawned on me that today was the anniversary of my Dad's death--15 years ago, April 8, 1997. We prayed for him at church as we do every Sunday. And then I went to All Souls Cemetery and laid some daffodils on his and Mom's grave and said some prayers.