“For Marie, it was an impossible mix of emotions: “We just held the babies. We cried. We looked at them. We studied them. We talked to them. We baptized them. And…we loved them.  Bernadette, Adam, and Christine were loved, respected, and cherished for every moment of their short four-hour lives.”

They baptized them.

Bernadette, Adam and Christine were baptized.  And they are now in Heaven.

This is an indisputable fact.  Unlike the innocent children who perished in Newtown, we know these Innocents are enjoying the Beatific Vision.

They are Home.  Bernadette, Adam and Christine are where we are all made for.

I will rejoice in this.

As for sorrow?  I will suffer those pangs reserved for Jason and Marie Taylor.  And not only because they have been denied the chance of watching their three little miracles mature.  But because of a life-long battle against Innocence lost, due to Original Sin.  A battle in which I, too, am engaged.

Woe is us.  And Glory belongs to St. Bernadette, St. Adam and St. Christine.

Holy Innocents, pray for us.