Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour for reflection.
In Krakow, Poland, grief has settled over the ancient stones of Main Market Square, where a shooting claimed six lives and left fifteen others wounded. Pope Leo the Fourteenth has spoken words of sorrow and solidarity, calling on all people to pursue peace not as an ideal but as a daily, tireless practice.
From that moment of mourning, the Pope's journey carried him to Uruguay, where he presided over Mass at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Thirty-Three, re-consecrating the nation to Mary on her feast day. He reminded the Uruguayan faithful that from the earliest hours of their nation's founding, they have never walked without a mother beside them.
And in the quiet parish of Saint Thérèse in Juanicó, Pope Leo paused among the faithful to offer something intimate. He shared that his own family holds a deep devotion to the Little Flower, and he spoke simply and warmly of a truth Thérèse herself knew well — that God's grace and love are always with us, in every ordinary hour.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
