A friend just shared this feature-length article in the New York Times, “A Reminder We Are Not Alone” about priests who have been celebrating the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick for patients with Covid-19. Continue reading
The Art of Dying Well
A Time to Die
“The cemeteries of the abbeys will always be in bloom.”
This evening I read a beautiful book, A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life, written by Nicolas Diat and with a forward by Robert Cardinal Sarah.
Diat travelled to several monasteries in France to visit monks and learn from them about the mystery of death and the art of dying well. Continue reading
Love and Death
With Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday falling on the same date this year, today has been an especially opportune occasion to contemplate the lives of the saints and death. Continue reading
