Digital Marian Helper Magazine Spring 2021

26 M arian H elper • S pring 2021 • marian . org A moment of trauma By Marc Massery Followed by transformation O n a remote military outpost in Afghanistan in July 2008, United States Marine Lieutenant Matt Ingold of Troy, NewYork, authorized the bomb- ing of a building that resulted in the deaths of eight innocent women and children. “I felt like a monster. I felt like I had committed the unforgiveable sin,” he said. But thanks to the unfathomable mercy of God, that wasn’t the end of Matt’s story. “You’ve committed an unforgivable sin. You’ve killed a baby, and they don’t let people like you into Heaven. You are damned where you stand.”