Bring your notes and prepare to explain yourself.
>>Bring your notes and prepare to explain yourself. <<
I’m not sure I’ll have fingers at that point but I’ll try to remember your advice!
Netmilsmom: Well I’ll sort that out with the “Big Guy” when I get up there.
Dr. E: Bring your notes and prepare to explain yourself.
People who are dying bring nothing to God, just their naked agony, their acceptance that the body cannot carry on, and their faith that God waits for them in Love and Glory. It was my joy, my honor, and my cross to be present at the deaths of my mother, my father, and my husband. My stepmother, who was with me when my father died, expressed a wish that I be with her when her time comes, if I am able.
The prottie fantasy that God listens to their petty arguments and disagreements, that tearing down Catholicism will be “stars in their crown” — the supposition that God will look favorably on their “defense of sola scriptura” — their protests that they never worshipped an idol and “lovingly corrected” those who did — will all be wiped away (I predict) in the moment they come face to Face with Christ in Glory.
At the approach of death all their silly ridiculous protests will be meaningless. Eternity awaits, and the baggage of cant will be seen for what it truly is: a way to make themselves feel good at the expense of the Catholic Church, nothing more, and nothing less. Dying is something each does for him/herself, alone, unless, there is a consolation, and a thin-skinned poster on the RF forum of FR will be less than nothing....
“Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.” Her great heart of Mercy always stands ready to console, and welcome, each one who calls on Her.