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Name: Mary Kathryn
Come aside and pray for a while. You are never "lonely" when you "Are 'alone with the Alone'. The Avatar is my old cat, Persia. God So loves us He became man to live, die, and rise for us so we could live in joyous communion with Him and each other forever. A Catholic Christian "Hermit" is someone who loves the entire world, embracing them in the love of Christ through solitary prayer, silence, & penance for the salvation of all. Fully Vatican II, Mary Kathryn is a "consecrated lay hermit" in Vows before a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, following a Benedictine Rule and spirituality. She's fiercely orthodox: "middle-of-the-road". Her MOTTO: "In Medias Res" "The Truth lies in the middle, between the extremes." Come, listen to the Word SPEAK in silence!

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Friday, 29 August 2008

More Prayers for Weleetka

Photograph copyright Mary Kathryn, hermit

Novena to Our Lady of Prompt Succor-

So how does a hermit help solve two murders and find a missing woman?

I can’t go out and help the law enforcement, but I can do one thing: I can pray, and pray, and pray. I'm about to go do some yard work. Joined to Christ, this too will help.

Please join me in this offering of what we're doing in union with Christ for all involved.

We can check out the precedent of St. Therese of Liesieux: she dusts and washes clothes and goes about her daily duties with as much love as she can muster. And by doing this in the order of grace, she becomes the Patron Saint of Missionaries along with the active St. Francis Xavier.

On the days you’re feeling “flat”, having a “desert experience” you offer this to God and trust He will use it in the order of grace.

It was 08 June 2008 when 13 year old Taylor Dawn Paschal Placker and her 11 year old classmate and best friend in a little country school, Skyla Jade Whitacker, were brutally and senselessly gunned down and left lieing in a ditch of a gravel road in rural Oklahama, near Weleetka, in Okfuskee County. Even Scotland Yard has offered help.

The story goes cold.

No arrests.

Hundreds of people interviewed, lie-detectored. Nada.

Person of Interest in sketch: never found. As many have noted, it looks like half the Native Americans in Oklahoma. Best the sketch artist and witnesses could do. Why is he terrified to come forward? No doubt he fears he’ll be charged with the crime, or targeted by the killers, or something. Maybe he stopped in horror when he saw the bodies. Could be lots of legitimate reasons for being there.

Hundreds of possible suspects crossed off suspect lists.

Every 40 caliber Glock in the area tested. Results still not in. It will be a while.

I’ve wondered why the sudden loss of interest, unless the law enforcement has requested it.

For the families the waiting is excruciating. For the neighbors and friends, excruciating.

One little nearby embroidery shop (Embroidery Plus in nearby Henryetta, OK where Skyla Whitacker lived) makes and sells shirts with their pictures on it to raise money for the family; they put all their other projects on hold. But their waiting, too, is excruciating. (Their school takes students from 40 miles around and is still so small Skyla and Taylor were classmates.)

For law enforcement, at least they have the release of being able to do things, question witnesses, sort evidence. But the stress is there for them too: they're parents and brothers and sisters, and grandparents. When this happens, entire communities unite to get a killer off the streets and into a cage so he will not kill again.

Prayer is the only thing that can help all these people -- for those of us at a distance. Truly.

And for those who know something or suspect something to approach law enforcement.

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Does someone want to do a piece on what happens behind the scenes at the FBI, OSBI and US Marshalls when the news people loose interest? We hear nothing. Daily news searches nets nothing new. But what is really going on? The stuff they don’t show on 6:00 news. Usually.

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Nearby in the same Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, on 07 August, 31 year old Mrs. Michelle Lea Moonyham Davis disappeared without a trace; 2 weeks later a 12 page letter from her appeared at their house. Still no word. No one knows the contents of the letter. Where is she? Who took her? Is someone keeping her captive? The FBI and OSBI, US Marshalls are involved.

Are both crimes actually on the date of the 8^th?

What a funny question, you say, unless you know that in Jewish life, and in the occult, and in many societies the next day begins at sundown, not at midnight, so the evening of the 7^th would be the 8^th by that reckoning. That would make both crimes happen on the 8^th of the month. Why is that date important? Coincidence? A message? I just don’t have the facts or access to discovery to answer this.

Puzzled at why the US Marshalls are involved, I chased down some leads: There’s an Oklahoma State Prison in the same Okfuskee County from which a lot of people seems to have been able to escape. Connected? I haven’t a clue. Another possible connection is most of the locals are Native Americans, and there is federal jurisdiction due to reservations. Or possibly the Person of Interest. Quite likely one or both victims.

I’m connected to Weleetka only by having been through there many a time, long ago. I love the wilds and the back roads. As a kid, I walked and rode my bike all over alone without fear. Every kid has that right. These two kids went for a walk and someone brutally murdered them.

But my frustration at no answers, no arrests, is all I have to offer to Jesus – and love, and Masses, and praying the Office, and Holy Hours, and dusting the cobwebs, etc.

The prayer for the family, friends, teachers, schoolmates, neighbors goes on, day and night. This hermit knows only too well what it is to have a friend kidnapped, to have a friend murdered, to live with a child killer loose and the terror he could strike anywhere, and strike again. And I know what it is to live with the murder of a dear friend unsolved for years, and years, and years, 21 August was the 11^th anniversary for one.

But somewhere God is working on the killers by grace, pleading with them to repent, to turn themselves in, to confess, to apologize.

Say you’re miles from your cousin when you learn she needs help, and you simply cannot get away. Can you do anything to help? The answer is YES, resoundingly.

The Blessed Virgin Mary spun wool and wove it. After the Archangel Gabriel’s visit, she talked St. Joseph (presumably) into taking her to visit St. Elizabeth for 3 months (as a woman could not safely travel alone in those days, any attempt would be misconstrued as unchastity). I assume she started weaving swaddling clothes the next day, and carried them with her when she went. When she got to St. Elizabeth’s, what did she do? Probably got a whole lot of wool and spun and wove swaddeling clothes, cleaned house, cooked, etc. But she loved and prayed with the purity of being not only sinless herself, but with child by the Holy Spirit, a living Tabernacle, not too proud or ashamed to do the floor on her hands and knees, to gather the eggs, feed the chickens, do the wash. If you’ve ever spun raw wool, you know you have to get the dung out of it first – sheep have no sense, that’s why they wear raincoats these days, to keep the wool clean. From that dunged stinky wool, a skilled spinner and weaver makes warm soft garments fit to be worn even by the sinless Son or God.

God’s like this: He wades into the mud and helps us where we are. Nothing is too little for His loving concern, nor does He spurn our feeble little offers of love.

God is infinitely more concerned about all His children in Okfuskee County – all the family, friends, teachers, law enforcement – and the souls of the murderers, for whom He also died on the cross. He wants to get ALL his kids home safely to heaven. Especially those at risk of hell.

There was once a murderous fed-on-pornography would be rapist -- who killed a girl in a rage, and was converted in prison when she came to him in a dream – she’s now a canonized Saint, Saint Maria Goretti; he became so holy he is now himself a candidate for canonization. I’m speaking of Alessandro Serenelli. The Blood of Jesus washed away his sins, and brought him to atone for them with his own prayers and years of sorrow for his sin. Jesus loves to join our little efforts to his.

There was once a young law student who got deeply involved in the occult, to the point of being on the verge of insanity. He was converted, repented, and became a holy man: Bl. Bartollo Longo, an apostle of the Rosary.

Please pray for the murderer(s) to repent when you pray for the rest. Please pray no one gets hurt taking him/them into custody. Please pray for the safe return of Mrs. Davis to her family. Thank you and God bless you.

Prayers: hermit

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