Lil Red Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 +J.M.J.+ [url="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTg2NGUyYzdhNTU4MDJmZjk0MTY1OGM5Zjg0ODdiMDc="]National Review Online[/url] [quote]His friends and family are keeping vigil and he was administered last rites shortly after midnight. Fr. George Rutler, who gave him the Catholic Sacrament, says that “he is not expected to live long” and suggests “that it is appropriate that prayers be offered for a holy death.” Fr. Neuhaus has come close to this moment before and been back. If it’s his time: Go in peace. He's a man who has loved and served His Lord. When he leaves this world, his vast intellectual and spiritual body of work will have a long life here.[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excelsior1027 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Prayers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Era Might Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I read he had cancer but I didn't know he was that close to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggamafu Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Oh goodness. God bless him. His work has been so awesome... O my Jesus, forgive us our sins; save us from the fires of Hell. Lead all souls into Heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy. Amen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Very sad. Prayers for a peaceful and happy death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galloglasses' Alt Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Lord have mercy upon his soul, may he rest in the peace of Christ, Amen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Prayers! May God grant him a peaceful and happy death. May the Blessed Virgin watch over him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 God bring him into the kingdom quickly! I don't doubt he has a crown with many jewels awaiting him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Praying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seven77 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 i had no idea what was happening! prayers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Prayers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissyP89 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Was totally clueless, poor guy. St. Joseph, I humbly ask for your prayers for a happy death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 this is a quote of his found at a blog: On Fr. Neuhaus [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Fr. Neuhaus has come close to this moment before and been back. If it’s his time: Go in peace. He's a man who has loved and served His Lord. When he leaves this world, his vast intellectual and spiritual body of work will have a long life here. Speaking of his archives: Fr. Neuhaus might agree with his brother priest on the appropriate prayer for him. Fr. Neuhaus might say, if he could right now, what he's already written: We are born to die. Not that death is the purpose of our being born, but we are born toward death, and in each of our lives the work of dying is already underway. The work of dying well is, in largest part, the work of living well. Most of us are at ease in discussing what makes for a good life, but we typically become tongue-tied and nervous when the discussion turns to a good death. As children of a culture radically, even religiously, devoted to youth and health, many find it incomprehensible, indeed offensive, that the word "good" should in any way be associated with death. Death, it is thought, is an unmitigated evil, the very antithesis of all that is good. Death is to be warded off by exercise, by healthy habits, by medical advances. What cannot be halted can be delayed, and what cannot forever be delayed can be denied. But all our progress and all our protest notwithstanding, the mortality rate holds steady at 100 percent. Death is the most everyday of everyday things. It is not simply that thousands of people die every day, that thousands will die this day, although that too is true. Death is the warp and woof of existence in the ordinary, the quotidian, the way things are. It is the horizon against which we get up in the morning and go to bed at night, and the next morning we awake to find the horizon has drawn closer. From the twelfth-century Enchiridion Leonis comes the nighttime prayer of children of all ages: "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray thee Lord my soul to keep; if I should die before I wake, I pray thee Lord my soul to take." Every going to sleep is a little death, a rehearsal for the real thing. 01/07 02:29 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Richard John Neuhaus, 1936–2009 By Joseph Bottum Thursday, January 8, 2009, 10:07 AM Fr. Richard John Neuhaus slipped away today, January 8, shortly before 10 o’clock, at the age of seventy-two. He never recovered from the weakness that sent him to the hospital the day after Christmas, caused by a series of side effects from the cancer he was suffering. He lost consciousness Tuesday evening after a collapse in his heart rate, and the next day, in the company of friends, he died. My tears are not for him—for he knew, all his life, that his Redeemer lives, and he has now been gathered by the Lord in whom he trusted. I weep, rather for all the rest of us. As a priest, as a writer, as a public leader in so many struggles, and as a friend, no one can take his place. The fabric of life has been torn by his death, and it will not be repaired, for those of us who knew him, until that time when everything is mended and all our tears are wiped away. Funeral arrangements are still being planned; information about the funeral will be made public shortly. Please accept our thanks for all your prayers and good wishes. In Deepest Sorrow, Joseph Bottum Editor First Things -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotusTuusMaria Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord. I had no idea at all. I didn't even know he was sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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