ICEMANforChrist

  SMOKE IN THIS LIFE, NOT THE NEXT Sun, Jul 5 — The Burning Hand of Foligno Iceman: MASS • Sunday  Virtue: Justice & Reparation  Cigar: Maduro — dark, solemn  Bourbon: Old Forester 1920 — deep, reflective  Reflection: “What hidden partiality in me still needs purifying.”  Notes: Tour de France Stage 2 • Quiet Sunday heat in Cottonwood On November 16, 1859, Sister Anna Felicia of the Convent of St. Francis in Foligno heard slow, heavy footsteps outside her cell. Twelve days earlier, her friend Sister Teresa Gesta had died. The footsteps stopped at her door. A low, aching moan rose — unmistakably human, yet not of this world. Terrified, she cried, “Jesus… Mary… what can that be.” A thick smoke filled the room. Through it emerged the suffering spirit of Sister Teresa. Her voice trembled: “Oh my God, how I suffer… Oh Dio, che peno tanto.” She revealed the cause of her purification — partiality in her duties, a small favoritism she had treated ligh...