Heroic Love

  • Posted by Fr. Jeremiah Shryock, CFR
  • On November 19, 2017
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Heroic Love My mother spent the last 15 years of her life in a nursing home suffering from Alzheimer’s. I would be a liar if I said that her disease had not caused my family any suffering or that we accepted it perfectly as part of God’s mysterious will. The reality is, we all suffered […]
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Awakening

  • Posted by Fr. Jeremiah Shryock, CFR
  • On November 2, 2017
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Awakening I was 17 years old when I first encountered death. My grandmother died one night peacefully in her sleep at the age of 84 with a set of rosary beads next to her bed, which she most likely prayed before slipping away into eternity. A simple woman, she lived on a farm her entire […]
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