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Dio Palm BeachThe latest Florida Catholic column by Bishop Barbarito is his homily from the April 15 Chrism Mass:
Going my way — all aboard!
When I was growing up, I remember that from a very young age I wanted to be a railroad engineer. My mom came from a small rural town in western Pennsylvania, where we stayed with her family during the summers. We had to take a day-long train journey from New York to get there. There was a railroad up the road from my grandparents’ house and one down the road on a mountain across the river. I watched trains come and go and listened to their rumbling on the tracks as well as the sound of their horns, both during the day and in the quiet of the night. The sights and sounds were somewhat mystifying. While spending long summers in rural Pennsylvania surrounded by railroad trains, I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Here, I frequently rode on the subway and was fascinated by its mystique, including the crowd that rode upon it. I loved trains, and I was sure I wanted to be an engineer, especially as I would play with the trains I set up at Christmas received as gifts. I liked, and still do, trains and the direction of the engineer behind all of the train controls and his service of getting people, as travelers, safely to their destinations.
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