Gordon Wilson 1927–1995, an Irish Prophet

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March 8th, First Tuesday in Lent

8 March, 2022

Gordan Wilson was the father of Marie Wilson, one of 12 victims of the Enniskillen’s, Remembrance Day Bombing by the Provisional IRA, the year was 1987. Gordan described his last conversation with his daughter, a nurse, as she lay fatally wounded in the rubble.
“She held my hand tightly, and gripped me as hard as she could. She said,
‘Daddy, I love you very much.’
Those the last words I ever heard her say.”

He stood up straight and immediately expressed forgiveness to his daughter’s killers and pleaded with Loyalists not to take revenge for her death.
‘She’s dead now, he said, and I will pray for the men who did this tonight and every night.”

No words in more than twenty-five years of violence in Northern Ireland had such a powerful, emotional impact.

An eye for an eye does not bring justice and peace to the soul – only forgiveness can do that!