DEATH AND THE CROSS

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Chaplain on Death Row

I most enjoyed being a parish priest. I remember I was in charge of the prison, as a chaplain even of what you would call Death Row. I would be present for the hangings, giving absolution to those being hanged. Many of the other priests would not undertake anything like that, or even be present there. Yet it never troubled me one way or the other. Christ himself was crucified.

Ready to go to the Lord

It is true that the times were dangerous. But years ago people did not live very long. Nowadays, you can live up to a hundred. Years ago, when I was growing up, sixty, sixty-five, seventy years, and you were gone home to God. Now I am ninety: I just feel that I have another two years before the Lord says, "Come home." Then I will say, "Today, Lord!".

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