Out of seemingly nowhere, the sad cry of a bagpipe was heard through the downpour, and its sweet refrain took refuge in the hearts of all present. The staff at New Calvary Cemetery often saw Father Francis R. Burke, S. J., or Father Frank, as he was known to his students at BC High School, slowly walking among the gravestones, where he earnestly played his bagpipes, thinking this was a place where no one would object to the noise. And it was there on consecrated ground that God led him to provide musical closure for grieving families, unannounced. This stormy day, for the mother and child, it
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