Posted on 01/07/2009 1:16:01 PM PST by Pyro7480
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....
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Prayers for Fr. Neuhaus. He is irreplaceable, but if this is God’s plan, so be it.
Not for *him*. :*)
He’ll get to touch the face of God!
Prayers going up for his family and friends.
Prayers for Fr. Neuhaus.
Me too, Miss Marple. It was his conversion, and his explanation of it in First Things, that started me thinking about my own Tiber River swim.
everything is ready now- and has been for a while.
What a remarkable man
Thursday, January 8, 2009, 10:15 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. . . .
Oh, dear.
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