Monday, October 25, 2010

Sometime around 6:30, this Friday, Brother Edwin Reggio, C.S.C. (all 5 ft 1 inch of him) will stand up during Mass in the chapel at St. Joseph’s Hall at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. He will ask the smallish congregation of Brothers of the Holy Cross who will be present to join him in prayer for the successful operation and recovery of my wife Rosemary which will happen around 8am at the Vancouver General Hospital. If that were not all, Brother Edwin Reggio will ask the brand new Canadian-born saint, Saint André Bessette ( of Montreal and also a Brother of Holy Cross) to intercede on her behalf.

My wife has been diagnosed to have a cancerous lump (a small one) on one of her breasts and it will be removed this coming Friday. Both our daughters have been supportive and I must assert here that if one is going to be sick there is no better place than Canada, and British Columbia. I was most impressed by the quality of gentle support and information that Rosemary obtained from her surgeon and her extraordinary assistant nurse.

Brother Donald Dufour & Brother Edwin Reggio

I am sure that the operation will be a success and that Rosemary will be fine. I find extreme comfort in the fact that we have a few oldish Brothers of Holy Cross on our side. If there is someone out there who will listen He, will surely listen to them!

The Saint & Brother André