"One of the helpful things to deal with trauma is ritual." That is so true, Mary. For many of us survivors who went public, the emotional pain we suffered from the shunning and discrediting by the Catholic community was paralyzing. The one door that had furnished ritual since childhood was now closed to us. By the grace of God, though, we were able to find Christ in new rituals that He presented to help us through each day, so as to continue to be of service to our families and to other survivors and advocates.  We found it helpful to always keep prayerfully & ritualistically busy with the work  nearest to us while staying very alert to the slow progress being made to illuminate the crisis at large. With the limited media coverage of the early years, the waiting was terribly frustrating. NCR, SNAP and people like Barbara Blaine gave us hope. She was definitely a shining star. Thank you, Peter for reminding us of her great and terrible sacrifice.