March 15, 2024 “Don’t be afraid to let emotional pain into consciousness. That is the only way to identify and heal it. Otherwise, it will come out as anger, depression, despair or purposelessness. Embracing the pain, naming it and accepting it is, ironically, exactly...
March 14, 2024 “We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven’t told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.”— Hal Sutton Terry remembers the first wake he ever went to as a high...
March 13, 2024 “You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.”— St. Mary Magdalen de’Pazzi So many of us, so often in life, in strife and loneliness and loss, look up at the...
March 12, 2024 All Is Well By Henry Scott-Holland Death is nothing at all.I have only slipped away into the next room.I am I, and you are you,Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.Call me by the old familiar name.Speak of me in the easy way, which you...
March 11, 2024 Prayer for Those Near Death O God, our heavenly Father, have pity on your children in great bodily weakness, who are drawing near the gates of death. Send your dear Son to meet with them on the way, and to stay with them, for the day is now far spent,...
March 10, 2024 The following tribute for Bill Hoey, Vice President of Mission Services at St. Vincent Medical Center, was written by William M. Jennings, president of St. Vincent’s and Hartford HealthCare’s Fairfield Region. For many years, Mr. Hoey worked for...
