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Priest Collapses, Dies at Altar During Mass
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| Tuesday April 30, 2013
Posted on 04/29/2013 1:11:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Sounds like something from the Omen.
To: nickcarraway
So, literally the last thing he did in his life was to offer the sacrifice at the altar.
That's a great grace.
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:15:12 PM PDT
by
wideawake
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:17:06 PM PDT
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onyx
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To: nickcarraway
Just in case people are wondering—This particular St. Patrick’s is in New Zealand.
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:19:05 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: nickcarraway
Died with his Chasuble on.
RIP Padre.
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:19:10 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight,, he'll just kill you.)
To: wideawake
The reporter may be a a little confused about terminology. In one play he says just after Holy Communion, but it sounds like he had just finished baptizing a baby.
To: nickcarraway
Wow, how sad for the congregation and the baby, can you imagine the little thing will always be tied to the dead priest.
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:22:15 PM PDT
by
svcw
(If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
To: wideawake
I don’t think he would have had it any other way.
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:22:44 PM PDT
by
arthurus
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To: nickcarraway
I guess God wanted him right then. RIP, Father.
To: nickcarraway
When you read the little bios of the Saints, or the daily Saints you notice than quite a few died in front of the altar.
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:24:28 PM PDT
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arthurus
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To: nickcarraway
The parishioner is quoted as saying during communion - I'm assuming that the parishioner was more informed than the journalist.
For a journalist, the baptism is probably the key event and the consecration just a bunch of boring prayers he was saying later.
To: wideawake
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:30:31 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: CMB_polarization
He was 81. How “in shock” could anyone have been?
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:31:06 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
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To: wideawake
I agree- I was just pointing out that often you can’t be sure of the details based on what is in the article.. Either way, I think both things are significant, including that it was a baptismal Mass.
To: BenLurkin
If you ever where present when anyone of any age died unexpectedly, you wouldn’t ask such a foolish question.
If he had died in his sleep, no one would have thought otherwise. It is when he dropped as if struck by lightning that it becomes such a shock.
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04/29/2013 1:44:02 PM PDT
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Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: nickcarraway
RIP Padre. Perfect place and time to die!
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:44:04 PM PDT
by
mlizzy
(If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
To: nickcarraway
Wow...what a wonderful way to go! RIP Father. I pray for a fraction of that Grace at my own time.
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:45:38 PM PDT
by
pgkdan
(Some taglines never go away....)
To: nickcarraway
When your number is up and God calls you, it’s over.
He went doing what he evidently loved to do, I couldn’t think of a better way for a priest to go.
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:45:53 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: nickcarraway
I certainly hope to “die in the saddle” - not in terror and screaming, like the passengers in my grandfathers car.
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posted on
04/29/2013 1:46:11 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
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