This week, in response to a media query on the Church’s pastoral teaching on caring for people in critical and terminal phases of life, Bishop Kevin Doran of Elphin and chair of the Council for Life of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, said, “Terminal illness presents enormous challenges both for the person who is dying and for family members who are caring for that person. Church teaching is that there is no such thing as a life without value.
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He loves, He hopes, He waits. If He came down on our altars on certain days only, some sinner, on being moved to repentance, might have to look for Him, and not finding Him, might have to wait. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep him waiting one instant.
St Julian Peter Eymard
Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory.
~ St Angela Merici
