On that tragic Tuesday of September 11, 2001, a New York City parish priest standing on the corner of 14th Street and 1st Avenue witnessed the first terrorist plane plunging into the Twin Towers. “I stood there in shock and disbelief,” says the priest. “Without fully comprehending what was happening, I walked into the church and said the morning Mass.” Normally, about a hundred persons attend this weekday service. That morning there were several hundred. The Gospel reading for the day was, “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.” Even in the early moments of this world tragedy,” says the priest, “I wondered how these words of Christ could ever be true.”

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