Overwhelmed!

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Truly so!  Overwhelmed by the cares of the world, but much more so by the goodness of God!

But I just heard a striking comment on the EWTN program The Journey Home by a priestly convert about his very first experience of wandering into a Catholic church - Westminster Cathedral - for the first time.  He says he wandered in just after Mass or Vespers - the incense lingered in the air & the choir was practicing their chants, and -

"I was overwhelmed by the sense of holiness..."

I felt the same way with my first experiences with the Catholic church - first as a small child at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Atlanta & decades later walking into Westminster Cathedral myself.  I, too, was overwhelmed.

If a total stranger with no knowledge of the Catholic Faith wandered into your parish church, would they feel overwhelmed?  By what?  Holiness?
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