… “ … the hour has come … His death and resurrection is the hour of glory and what happened to Him happens to each one of us in death … when death comes to us it is our hour of glory.” Bishop Eugene Gerber reflecting on the new series of statues depicting the Wedding […]
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Dan Sulmasy OFM MD PhD nicely summarizes the use of advance directives … “With so many possible treatments, studies now demonstrate that approximately 90 percent of hospitalized patients die after a decision to forgo a procedure that could have been tried. One of the burdens of contemporary medical technology accompanying its many benefits is the
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Death – there’s no denying it – lies at the very heart of life. The only thing that enables our consciousness to grasp this and, having endured the realization, to be liberated from it is love. Each in his own way, Chopin and Rachmaninov have meditated upon this unfathomable mystery and transfigured it with music.
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… “Serving is different from helping. Helping is based on inequality; it is not a relationship between equals. When you help you use your own strength to help those of lesser strength. If I’m attentive to what’s going on inside of me when I’m helping, I find that I’m always helping someone who’s not as
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… ” … we feel that love requires and asks for eternity — and it is impossible to accept that love is destroyed by death in a single moment.” But we ask ourselves: Why do we experience fear in the face of death? Why has humanity, to a large extent, never resigned itself to believing that
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“The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ‘T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
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… the Mystery … or I myself … ? As Hutter explains, magnanimity – natural hope – protects us from despair because it “anticipates a final and meaningful integration of all my experiences in a worthy narrative … even if I will not be its final narrator.” Those who pursue physician assisted suicide/euthanasia (and their
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… inaugural meeting this weekend … 10:00 AM Legacy Hall on the campus of Benedictine College. Keynote speaker Mike Murray, MD, PhD on “Benedictine Values in Medicine”. On receiving the Kansas Monk award recently, Murray said … “I do feel a great debt of gratitude for the monks and the sisters of the Abbey and
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… who decide when Christ is here or not … DISCOVERING THE FAMILIARITY OF A PRESENCE I would like to tell you about something that happened to me that opened up my heart. A few months ago, my husband Andrea brought one of his patients who had cancer into our home. She had been operated
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“Not every patient can be saved, but his illness may be eased by the way the doctor responds to him – and in responding to him, the doctor may save himself. But first he must become a student again; he has to dissect the cadaver of his professional persona; he must see that his silence
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