Posted on 02/12/2007 2:12:29 PM PST by pissant
For those who don't know her, Lisa Nowak might be just the centerpiece of a salacious media scandal that makes for a great Saturday Night Live skit, but to her church, she's a fellow parishioner who could really use some prayers right now.
"It's a perfect example of what St. Paul said, that when one member suffers, we all suffer," said the Rev. Dominic J. Pistone Jr. of Nowak's Clear Lake parish, St. Clare of Assisi Catholic Church. "When one person is honored, we all rejoice. That's the same here."
For the second consecutive week, Nowak did not make St. Clare's 9 a.m. Mass. She and her husband, Richard, regularly sat in the second row of pews with their twin 5-year-old daughters as their 15-year-old son assisted as an altar server.
In good times and bad, she and the other four or five astronauts who worship at St. Clare have been in parishioners' prayers. The parish prayed for a safe flight and return in July, when Nowak flew on Discovery on flight STS-121. It was the second flight since the Columbia tragedy of February 2003.
"We love her, we're praying for her, and we wish her the best," Pistone said.
After the parish prayed for her Sunday, Pistone visited Nowak at home to pray with her and give her communion.
"Lisa, God love her, she's not alone in a family that's experiencing troubles right now," Pistone said.
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ROFL!!!! You're onto something.
You are sick; I like that in a person.
She looks like someone who fully understands good and bad, and knows she has been VERY bad, and is going to face unpleasant consequences (photographed in a very unflattering light after lack of sleep.)
That could be.
"when one member suffers, we all suffer"
Not only her church, but all of NASA shares this one.
All quite the shame really - 4 years of Navel Acdemy, flight and test pilot school. MAde it all the way to O6, no small feat for anyone.
Only to have it all crashing down in a matter of days.
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the lady's nuts. should've never been a pilot, much less and astronaut. hell hath no fury like a scorned woman.
Perhaps. A nervous breakdown I see as an inability to cope and stress that causes one to collapse or withdraw or see a shrink.
It's out and out nuts and evil to plan, then try to execute a scheme to drive 900 miles, disguise yourself and attempt to kidnap and chop another person into bits.
Brittany Spears had a nervous breakdown and needed rest and rehab. The Columbine killers were evil.
Mrs. Nowak brought this on herself...even if it was just a little "nervous breakdown."
I have no sympathy for her...if she were a guy, she'd still be sitting in a prison cell right now.
You guys have been at it too long; this women is sick, and need our prayers. I suspect her troubles are based on the effects of spaceflight.
I knew him, disasour: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is!
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