TERROR TRAGEDY AT MONDAY'S BOSTON MARATHON.............

In what is unfolding as another wanton act of senseless violence and tragic terrorism runners and spectators at the 2013 Boston Marathon suffered two explosions at the finish line.  A third potential explosive device is said to have been found in the vicinity, and a fire first reported as a third explosion at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in the area of Boston Harbor.  It was 2:50 p.m. Eastern Time, four hours and nine minutes into the Marathon, at a peak time when runners were arriving at the finish line.  Three persons are confirmed to be dead and 130 persons or more were wounded, many of them critically.  One of the deaths is that of an 8 year old boy.  This on Patriot's Day in Massachusetts, on Boston Marathon Day, dedicated to the 26 first grade students and their teachers killed in the Newtown, Connecticut; with many of their surviving family members present there today and in a reviewing stand near the finish line.  A heartbreaking day for not only the 500,000 persons present at the Boston Marathon as participants and fans, but this venerable historic city in our American heritage, as well as the Commonwealth, and our Nation.  May our prayers, sympathies, support, and compassion, be with and reach out to those victimized by this horrific act.  An investigation is underway and President Obama in a brief statement from the White House Briefing Room, vowed the perpetrator(s) will be found and brought to justice to the full extent of the law.  As of now it is not been determined or disclosed what political cell might be responsible for inflicting this terrorism.  In addition to praying for and lifting up those who were killed, seriously injured, and traumatized, today in Boston, I will blog further as developments and updates occur going forward.............Fr.  Troy