Dan Valenti's Mercy Journal

Eden Hill, home of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, is blessed to have many veterans among its priests, brothers and employees. They were among all those honored Sunday, Nov. 11, at a special Veteran's Day Novena Mass at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy.

"I am in the hands of God ... Whatever God wants," said the man who, as he was dying, was still busy living.

The reality of this day went beyond the cultural heritage of Poland. It went beyond the greatness of its greatest son, Karol Wojtyla.

I didn't get twenty steps from my office, when a great story literally crossed my path. I couldn't have scripted it better. Nine members of a family group, on Eden Hill to remember a loved one, strolled into view almost as if a director had yelled, "Action!"