[Magdalen] Urgent prayers requested

[Scott Knitter]

For the first time in its 140+ years, the Chicago Transit Authority is
closed overnight. No trains or buses. Curfew 9pm to 6am except essential
workers, who now must find another way to/from work if they rely on public
transport. A beloved camera shop that opened in 1899 went up in flames last
night. Many other items like this.

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 4:11 PM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> The demonstrations here have been large and peaceful.
> I wish I could get out to stand in witness.
> Can hear the helicopters over both the State House (a quarter of a mile to
> the southeast) and City Hall (a quarter of a mile to the northeast).
> According to the tv, the full assembly just knelt for nine minutes to honor
> the victim, Mr. Floyd.
>
> Just saw a priest I know (surplice and red stole) near the head of a group
> walking up from Dudley Square.
>
> Your niece is doing good work. A couple of years ago I met a young man (he
> was shadowing my PCP) who'd returned from a church mission to Haiti. His
> trip there had woke him good. He'd decided what the world really needs is
> nurses and he was headed to nursing school.
> -M
>
>
> On Sunday, May 31, 2020, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I request prayers for my niece Siri, who is in the middle of the war zone
> > in the Twin Cities. She is very much a child of the family, devoted to
> > justice. She has been running supplies (food, water, etc.) and also
> > assisting in the medical tent. Although she does not have any medical
> > credentials, she is the daughter of two doctors, and this outbreak has
> her
> > thinking about possibly becoming an EMT (she once thought about medical
> > school but the years-long training kind of discouraged her). She and all
> > her friends and the other civilians in the area need prayer. There are,
> she
> > reports, definitely bands of neo-fascist types infiltrating the
> > demonstration and causing much if not most of the damage.
> >
>


-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA