Parties are under way. Loss of purple pride. There are a few brave patriot fans sprinkled in. It is standing room only. I talked to the manager on duty. He said the first fans started showing up at 11 00 this morning to get a seat. We talked to people with tables. They said they were here at 1 00 in the afternoon. People have been staking out their claims early. One fan drove down from connecticut to be here in baltimore for the game. Here is a little bit about what the feeling is today. Everyone is nervous but excited. We are preparing and getting ready. I knew i had to come here to watch the game. I needed to be in baltimore. We did talk to a Baltimore City police spokesman. They are expecting big crowds tonight. There are extra patrols. And there are a lot of ravens fans up north today. We will send it up to Gillette Stadium where jennifer joins us live. The purple nation is well represented. I spent time working my way around the stands. There is purple all over the stadium. These
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Tears come easier to me these days maybe because I am older. Sometimes, while preaching, I will touch a deep vein and find it difficult to go on. I might be reading an autobiography and see a scene evoking a memory from my own journey and I have to lay the book down as memories flood in. Such was my experience reading Frank J. Butler’s autobiography,
Belonging: One Catholic’s Journey.
Butler lost his father at a young age, and his mother raised a family of six. At the age of 13, Butler entered a seminary in Little Rock, Ark., and spent eight years there in a world he generally describes as wonderful a world in which one learned to pray and to work hard and to live with others.