Posted on 09/11/2022 6:58:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
No one likes getting this kind of call.
“Father John, my mother’s got covid. We’re taking her to the hospital, now. Can you come to see her?”
So you drop what you’re doing, get your things together, get the black leather bag which contains what we Orthodox call the Reserved Gifts, dried Holy Communion, and drive moderately over the speed limit (it’s Massachusetts where even the police speed) and arrive at one of the largest hospitals in Worcester.
By this time I was well aware that Covid-19 was not nearly as dangerous as the media had made it out to be. I had even followed Dr. Pierre Kory’s research on Ivermectin and was able to acquire some for myself, family and some extra for just such an emergency before the Mass Media deceptively proclaimed it to only be a horse dewormer. I had been able to fulfill the prescription at the local CVS pharmacy, which a few weeks later would refuse to fill all prescriptions! Even my own.
At the hospital parking lot.
“How is she?”
“Not good, she’s in the ICU. Her oxygen was down into the high 70’s,” Kim, her daughter, answered.
As we talked, we wound our way through the labyrinth of hallways and elevators. Finally we arrived at the ICU.
The doors the doors!
The doors are locked, sealed; only the enlightened professionals can enter; the new masked hierarchs that give and take life. Family members, priests, loved ones; even spouses are not allowed in because of the deadly plague which kills approximately 0.02% percent of everyone my age who catches it; a percentage that is just a hair above the average flu.
She wanted to receive Holy Communion. She was 88 years old, even previously catching covid not in particularly good health and had strong.......
(Excerpt) Read more at brownstone.org ...
My condolences to the family. I know exactly and precisely what they were/are going through. I cannot say more, because my heart gets heavy on this topic. Even one year later, I have a hard time with this.
Could they get “last rites” (or whatever the latest tradition calls it)?
The woman got ivermectin smuggled in and lived!
She got last rights but lived! Read the article…
Oh!
Wouldn’t that be called “next to the last rites“?
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Don't know how to make this a link... you can cut and paste if interested.
The link has several references to Episcopalian and Catholic newsletters and other ephemera from the time of the 1918 epidemic.
Services (including communion) were banned and pastors and laypersons were upset and complained then as now.
There was the same outrage, then as now, at local governments interfering with worship and holy communion.
The important thing now is to realize that the government in 2020 used the pretext of quarantine to prosecute biowarfare and economic warfare on its citizens. A technique worthy of Stalin or Mao. And BTW motivated by the same philosophy, Marxism.
And to pursue prosecution of several individuals, especially Collins, Fauci, Baric, Bancel, and others, who conspired to develop bioweapons and harmful mRNA vaccines illegally, with the aid of the CCP, in spite of the fact that such activity was banned by the USA. Their violations of federal laws and regulations are too numerous to list.
These individuals circumvented the law to develop these bioweapons in collaboration with an enemy of the USA.
So, they should be charged with crimes against humanity for their killing of millions worldwide and engaging in crimes against humanity by rendering so many ill, disabled, and destitute with their manufactured viral bioweapon and untested experimental vaccine.
They should also undergo trial for treason for their cooperation with China.
The only reasonable sentence for these people, if found guilty, is death.
In the Roman Catholic Church its called among other things, the anointing of the sick. It does include confession and Holy Communion if the person is able to swallow and speak.
This type of thing must have been heartbreaking, torture for the families ...
Medieval ...
A call to the hospital chaplain (they all have one) would usually get you in. At the least, the priest in the hospital would be able to do the communion.
I used to manage the people who arranged all that stuff in our hospital system (4 hospitals.)
It’s call anointing of the sick.
That’s great. The problem is they denied her so much. I couldn’t get past the opening paragraph. Wound is still too fresh for me.
This is a MUST READ.
I would add that the vicious policy of not allowing unvaccinated to visit their sick and dying loved ones must be stopped as well.
Everything about Rona was done based on FALSE TESTS (couldn't tell if a person had cold, flu, or Covid) yet, how many family members/friends DIED ALL ALONE because of this bullsh*t?
All of these things need to be investigated and restitution made to the millions of victims.
Nuremberg type trials are needed for crimes against humanity.
About a year ago today, on Twitter, I chatted with two progressives who were just pleased as punch that another woman, who had been admitted to a hospital in Chicago, had died after begging unsuccessfully for two weeks to be treated with Ivermectin. I'd like the hospitals to be held responsible for their malpractice in refusing such a low-risk, potentially life-saving, treatment.
Something is wrong with the state of medical care in the US. My elderly father was admitted to our local hospital this summer where he was forced to skip meals unnecessarily, despite being clearly underweight and having passed multiple swallow studies by speech pathology. He was also forced to soil himself instead of being permitted to use a toilet. Again, not in my father's interest but maybe in the financial interest of the hospital which avoided the risk of choking or falling accidents that potentially could lead to a lawsuit. Hospitals are failing to make patient well-being their top priority.
What hospital is this?
I’m so very sorry for your loss.
It’s now called “Blessing of the SICK”....not Extreme Unction anymore.
Veronica Wolski, the woman who died after being denied multiple requests to receive Ivermectin, was at AMITA Health Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago. My father was at Edward Hospital in Naperville, Illinois.
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