[Magdalen] Hospice

[Bob Rea]

On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 03:19:19 PM James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> _The witness of illness (really!)_
> 
> A young woman who was suffering from a life-threatening illness wanted to
> go to a graduate school in theology to study to be a parish minister. She
> made an appointment with an admissions counselor who explained the
> application process and gave her the necessary forms to complete.
>  At the end of the meeting, the woman put her hands in the crutches she had
> leaned against the admissions officer's desk.
> "Do you think they'll accept me?"
> "Yes," the college rep replied, "I really think they'll accept you."
> "But I'm dying," she said.
> "Well," the rep said, "we're all dying."
> "But I'm really dying."
> "Well, we are all really dying. I've never seen anyone not accepted because
> they were really dying."
> "Really?"
> "Really. Maybe you are called to be here to help us all remember this truth
> - that what we call 'living' is really 'dying.'"
> "Really?" she asked again.
> "Really."
> [From "A poetic reflection: what we call living is really dying" by Minka
> Shura Sprague, _The Living Pulpit_, July-September 1995.]
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford

One of the people in my ordination group, having had a remission, was ordained 
to the Diaconate. She came out of remission and was ordained to the Priesthood 
on her deathbed. RIP Tish, many years ago.

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