Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Posted: April 14 2009 at 8:00am | IP Logged Quote julia s.
I came upon this in my readings a few months back. I thought you might find it interesting.

“She [Eudora’s mom as a young school teacher] left home every day on her horse; since she had the river to cross, a little brother rode on her horse behind her, to ride him home, while she rowed across the river in a boat…..All this way, to pass the time, she told me, she recited the poems in the McGuffey’s Readers out loud.
     She could still recite them in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old lady. Reciting her voice took on resonance and firmness, it rang with the fervor, with ferocity even. She was teaching me once more, almost her last lesson: emotions do not grow old. I knew that I would feel as she did, and I do.”

                -Eudora Welty One Writer’s Beginnings


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