McHenry County Blog

Found this cross of bread when we had Easter dinner at my sister-in-law’s a couple of years ago.

It was good.

While I was waiting for the Marengo Settlers Days Parade I spotted the cap you see below:

The cross you se below was found in the wreckage of the World Trade Center:

The explanation of the cross is below:

A press release from the McHenry County College Pro-life Students:

McHenry County College Pro-life student organization to hold an event November 9, 2011, to raise awareness on campus and in the community about the frequency of abortions in America

Crystal Lake, IL, November 7, 2011: A Cemetery of the Innocents will be on display at MCC, adjacent to the cafeteria, beginning around 7am.

The event will continue throughout the entire day on November 9, 2011.

This event is being sponsored by the Students Supporting the Right to Life, which is a pro-life student organization at McHenry County College. All community members are welcomed and encouraged to take a few minutes to come and see this display.

Cemetery of the innocents is a display representing the total number of abortions that occur in America each day.

Similar events have been held on college campuses around the country, and this is the second time it will be displayed at MCC.

More than 53 million lives have been lost to abortion in America, since 1973.

This event will serve to make the community more aware of the frequency at which abortions are occurring and help bring the attention of every community member towards the pressing need to take action.

“And deliver us from evil.”

This is my brother-in-law’s church in Joplin, Missouri. An article from the Catholic News Service .

It offers this site to make donations.

My sister’s St. Paul’s Methodist Church was also in the path of devastation.

Transplanted to Joplin in the early 1990′s, the Denis and Ellen Desmond family went pretty much unscathed during the storm. They live one road about a quarter of a mile south of the expressway in Leawood, where Denis is Village President.

Searching to see if they were safe, the closest damage I could find was on that expressway, where semis were overturned.

The worst that happened to the extended family was the collapse of the AT&T store in which the Desmond daughter’s brother-in-law was working.

He managed to crawl out. First indications were that he might have broken ribs and a concussion.

 

Somewhere in the Texas Panhandle on the road we took from Mesa Verde to Joplin, Missouri, we passed this huge cross.

It was higher than a telephone pole, I see from another photo, living up the the Texas reputation of having really BIG things.

This one was found in a Crystal Lake parking lot—outside of Border’s Bookstore, I believe.

It says,

1 Cross + 4 Nails = 4givern

Pretty appropriate for the lead up to Easter’s resurrection of Jesus Christ, it seems to me.

This is a “Stuck On” cross.

It appeared last Sunday in the narthex of the First Methodist Church of Crystal Lake to complement a sermon series on how to get past being “stuck on” something.

Parishioners were encouraged to write what was deterring them from following in Jesus’ footsteps and stick it on the cross outside the sanctuary after the service.

There were Bible verses on pink Post-It Notes which you were supposed to take when you put up your yellow Post-It.

My pink verse said,

On one of the New York City Streets on which the World Trade Center stood is a steel girder which has been put against a building to look like a cross.

It is a popular picture when people come to view the site of the tragedy.