Last night our bishop had a Holy Hour at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Altoona for the Fortnight for Freedom.
It was a nice turnout, several hundred strong and twenty priests.
But in a diocese of a hundred thousand Catholics and a hundred priests?
Abraham spoke up again:
See how I am presuming to speak to my Lord,
though I am but dust and ashes!
What if there are five less than fifty innocent people?
Will you destroy the whole city because of those five?
He answered, I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.
But Abraham persisted, saying, What if only forty are found there?
He replied, I will forbear doing it for the sake of forty.
Then Abraham said, Let not my Lord grow impatient if I go on.
What if only thirty are found there?
He replied, I will forbear doing it if I can find but thirty there.
Still Abraham went on,
Since I have thus dared to speak to my Lord,
what if there are no more than twenty?
He answered, I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.
But he still persisted:
Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time.
What if there are at least ten there?
He replied, For the sake of those ten, I will not destroy it.
Righteous souls need to continuously beg pardon and intercede for the U.S.