"Screaming. They were screaming."
Two boys-brothers ages 4 and 6 were burned to death when their home was fire bombed by organized crime drug cartels. We don't know their names because their mother will not tell the press.
Neighbors described the firebombing:
"...loud popping sounds and glass breaking. Flames shot up the side of the house..."
"...flames erupted from the downstairs windows."
...all the windows started popping. Everything was like, 'boom'.
and a neighbor described the boys awful overtaking:
"Screaming. They were screaming."
Dear Lord, grant the boys grace at the moment of their awful overtaking. Thank you Lord.
"...pray, pray to the merciful Master for help...in their final agonizing moments, since for God time is infinitely malleable, and he will have heard what the poet (and the reader) asks even now, a month or a century on:
the prayer thou hearst me making
Have, at the awful overtaking,
Heard; have heard and granted
Grace that day grace was wanted...
It is all one can do. As for those precious souls... only God can be in at the end, only the Father can help there." Gerard Manley Hopkins (Jesuit priest): A Life," Paul Mariani
Neighbors described the firebombing:
"...loud popping sounds and glass breaking. Flames shot up the side of the house..."
"...flames erupted from the downstairs windows."
...all the windows started popping. Everything was like, 'boom'.
and a neighbor described the boys awful overtaking:
"Screaming. They were screaming."
Dear Lord, grant the boys grace at the moment of their awful overtaking. Thank you Lord.
"...pray, pray to the merciful Master for help...in their final agonizing moments, since for God time is infinitely malleable, and he will have heard what the poet (and the reader) asks even now, a month or a century on:
the prayer thou hearst me making
Have, at the awful overtaking,
Heard; have heard and granted
Grace that day grace was wanted...
It is all one can do. As for those precious souls... only God can be in at the end, only the Father can help there." Gerard Manley Hopkins (Jesuit priest): A Life," Paul Mariani
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