But this year, on her feast day, I thought of her, a mother of sons herself. Opportunities appeared that weren’t even on the table. Doors have opened that I didn’t even realize were there. Some of the problems I have asked her to help with have had no clear solution-at least from my perspective. Over the years, I’ve turned some complicated issues over to St. Our older son dressed up carefully in his suit, placed a meticulously folded handkerchief in his pocket, and played the trumpet and sang in the chorus while we were all present. So we could go as a family to see the concert. It had been rescheduled for no apparent reason. The game had been moved to the next day, and not because of rain. Then, partway through the morning, an email came from the baseball coach. But we’ve played baseball through cold, steady rains this season, so I knew rain wouldn’t necessarily mean a cancellation. Maybe there would be a rain-out, I thought. I just turned our complicated evening over to her. I didn’t ask for any specific intercession. It’s not the first time she’s heard from me, and it won’t be the last. Rita’s feast day I said a prayer to my patron saint, who also happens to be the patron saint of hopeless cases. I’m not sure attending both would be impossible, but it felt impossible-especially when the music teacher replied to my email about which parts of the concert were most important, and it sounded like, “All of it.” And you know when you walk away from a child’s game, you are going to miss something important. The game was supposed to be on a field at the same school where the concert would be, so-because I seem to be unable to say no-I figured I could slip away from the game for 20 minutes or so to see part of the performance. I would go to the baseball game, and my husband would go to the school concert. One son had a concert and the other son had a baseball game.So we decided to split up for the night. Weeks ago we realized that we were going to have a conflict on the evening of May 22.
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