Holiness in the shadows

Holiness in the shadows

Today is July 24, Thursday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time. We read at today’s Mass, “Blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it” (Mt 13:16). When Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati died on July 4, 1925, it seemed at first like a quiet passing. He was the son of a pr…