Matthew Walker: Father Perry

Quotes 

• Father Perry : What are you doing?

  [after Declan pops open a glass vile] 

  Declan Dunn : Just a vile; I figure I'd scrap some of that gunk of the Virgin Mary, bring it in, have it analyzed.

  [speaking of the tears the window pane Virgin Mary cried] 

  Father Perry : I really don't think you should be scrapping gunk off the Virgin Mary right now.

  [looking at people praying at the church window] 

• Father Perry : What are you looking for exactly?

  Declan Dunn : Holes in the glass, imperfections, maybe a tiny rigging of some sort.

  Miranda Feigelsteen : Optical illusion; somebody plants the blood or what ever it is during the night. Window's up high, nobody spots it until the service and everybody think, "Ahhh, owww, she's crying - it's a miracle".

• Father Perry : It's been quite a week. I kind of hoped it would continue right threw Christmas day and beyond. Here I had this great miracle happening in my parish... and then I didn't. Or did I? I saw some pretty amazing things this week: people who had lived side-by-side for years never talking to each other, suddenly getting together for pot luck suppers; I saw a group of kids cleaning up an abandoned apartment building, fixing it up for the homeless; teenage boys came to confession, in droves and I had to keep the confessional open until ten o'clock last night, telling me they weren't going to be in gangs anymore. So I got to thinking last night: what is a miracle? Isn't it when we see the Hand of God just when we least expect it? And by that definition, we've had one hell of a miraculous week. Let us pray.