NIES — Signs and wonders

“If you’re looking for a sign, heeere it is!”

The sisters in white were standing in the concourse of the Indiana Convention Center, surrounded by throngs of people attending the 10th National Eucharistic Congress.

This one lowered her classroom voice, smiled and let me take her picture.

“Okay, Sister, now that you have my attention, which way do I go?”

“That way!”

More sisters cheerfully ushered me and hundreds of others to a giant room filled with priests from all over the United States, each eager to hear our Confession and dispense the grace of Absolution.

Twenty minutes later, I was on my way, the slate cleared, ready for a new day to begin.

I tapped the sister in the photo on the shoulder: “Today, I was the paralytic. Today, you sisters opened the roof and lowered me down to the Healer.”

“All in a day’s work! Glad we could help!”

Jay Nies is editor of The Catholic Missourian.