Brother Adam Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 First Things will never be the same, nor will the intellectual Christian community. For now we pray for his soul, but I imagine soon enough we will be asking for his intercession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 [quote name='Brother Adam' post='1746017' date='Jan 8 2009, 12:18 PM'] First Things will never be the same, nor will the intellectual Christian community. For now we pray for his soul, but I imagine soon enough we will be asking for his intercession.[/quote] Maybe thats why he was taken too soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 +J.M.J.+ Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 [quote name='Brother Adam' post='1746017' date='Jan 8 2009, 11:18 AM'] First Things will never be the same, nor will the intellectual Christian community.[/quote] True enough... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isilzha Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I knew he was sick, but I didn't know he was that sick until I read about him last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 +J.M.J.+ [url="http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1282"]Born Toward Dying[/url] [quote]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.[/quote] [quote]The worst thing is not the sorrow or the loss or the heartbreak. Worse is to be encountered by death and not to be changed by the encounter. There are pills we can take to get through the experience, but the danger is that we then do not go through the experience but around it. Traditions of wisdom encourage us to stay with death a while. Among observant Jews, for instance, those closest to the deceased observe shiva for seven days following the death. During shiva one does not work, bathe, put on shoes, engage in intercourse, read Torah, or have his hair cut. The mourners are to behave as though they themselves had died. The first response to death is to give inconsolable grief its due. Such grief is assimilated during the seven days of shiva, and then tempered by a month of more moderate mourning. After a year all mourning is set aside, except for the praying of kaddish, the prayer for the dead, on the anniversary of the death.[/quote] [quote]Typically today the patient is heavily sedated and plugged into sundry machines. One only knows that death has come when the beeping lines on the monitors go flat or the attending physician nods his head in acknowledgment of medicine’s defeat. It used to be that we accompanied sisters and brothers to their final encounter. Now we mostly sit by and wait. The last moment that we are really with them, and they with us, is often hours or even many days before they die. But medical technology notwithstanding, for each one of them, for each one of us, at some point “it” happens.[/quote] he then goes on to describe what happened to him in 1993 when he almost died. part beautiful, part moving, part humor. i thought this was funny: [quote]In all the cards and letters assuring me of prayer, and almost all did offer such assurance, there were notable differences. Catholics say they are “storming the gates of heaven” on your behalf, and have arranged to have Masses said. Evangelical Protestants are “lifting you up before the throne.” Mainline Protestants, Jews, and the unaffiliated let it go with a simple “I am praying for you,” or “You are in my prayers.” One gets the impression that Catholics and evangelicals are more aggressive on the prayer front.[/quote] [quote]People are different around the very sick, especially when they think they may be dying. In the hospital, bishops came to visit and knelt by my bedside, asking for a blessing. A Jewish doctor, professing himself an atheist, asked for my prayers with embarrassed urgency. His wife had cancer, he explained, “And you know about that now.” Call it primitive instinct or spiritual insight, but there is an aura about the sick and dying. They have crossed a line into a precinct others do not know. It is the aura of redemptive suffering, of suffering “offered up” on behalf of others, because there is nothing else to be done with it and you have to do something with it. The point is obvious but it impressed me nonetheless: when you are really sick it is impossible to imagine what it is like to be really well; and when you are well it is almost impossible to remember what it was like to be really sick. They are different precincts.[/quote] he will be greatly missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seven77 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 i met Fr. Neuhaus at a book signing once. a very gracious person. Eternal rest grant into Him O Lord! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissyP89 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 May he stand before the Lord in peace now...we lost a good priest today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Servus_Mariae Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 A holy priest indeed, thank you for all you have done Father. Eternal rest grant unto him, oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him, may he rest in peace... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Eternal rest grant unto him, oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him, may he rest in peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Rest in peace oh servant of God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Eternal Memory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 prayers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melporcristo Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 JMJT Rest in Peace, Father. We will miss you and will be praying!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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