Post Communion Reflections on Mattie:
Jeni Stepanek, Ph.D., Mattie's Mother
Author of "Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs"
Raymond Arroyo, Managing Editor, EWTN News & Host of EWTN's "The World
Over"; President, The Mattie J.T. Stepanek Guild

All are welcome to reflect, remember and pray for the repose of the soul
of Mattie J.T. Stepanek, a young poet and peacemaker who died ten years
ago on June 22, 2004. Mattie died a few weeks before his 14th birthday
of complications from his rare form of muscular dystrophy. The Feast of
Corpus Christi reminds us that, in Christ, we all belong; Mattie
witnessed that joy of belonging to the Church as a lector and catechist,
as well as in his deeply spiritual writings. Mattie's lifework included
seven bestselling books of "Heartsongs" poetry and his advocacy on
peacemaking.