A vivid lesson on the fragility of life

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On Valentine’s Day, we lost our Deacon. He fell and suffered a traumatic brain injury. Yesterday, a beautiful funeral Mass was held for him.

This was very sudden and unexpected. And it drives home the mortality of each of us. Nobody should be presumptuous about how long they, or anyone else, is going to live. One’s ticket can be cashed in an instant.

When I speak with my younger sister on the phone, she sometimes tells me that I’ll probably outlive both of my siblings. I tell her there’s no way to know that, and we must not tempt God nor presume any such thing.

Our Deacon was cooking and either passed out, had a stroke, or maybe a heart attack, and went down without instinctively grabbing onto anything to break his fall. Some have speculated that he was gone before he hit the cement (or stove).

He did have medical problems, yet this still wasn’t expected to happen in the way it did.

So, be prepared, folks. You never know …
 
…and make the words “thy will be done” the only ones I know…
I think of living my life here on earth often…we never know unless we are diagnosed with an illness…then it is like a “wake-up” call…on how precious our life is and how we need to prepare ourselves…materially, I have been getting rid of things, physically, I have been “watching” what I consume, spiritually, I Pray all of the time, I Love a little more deeper, appreciate things that happen and Do realize it is just a matter of time when my eyes will close and I shall see that Light leading me Home…Amen! 😌
 
This is intriguing to me as that is exactly how my dad died, six days before your Deacon. Dad wasn’t in good health and possibly not long for this world anyway. Nevertheless, the official cause of his death is a fall resulting in fatal brain injury (due to hemorrhage).

I will pray for the happy repose of your Deacon’s soul. Please pray for the same for my father’s. God bless.
 
Eternal rest grant unto this Deacon and UpUp’s dad, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

I’m all too aware of sudden death since I have reached the decade of life when people I know start just keeling over from heart attacks and strokes. My husband did that, so did the husband of a lady I know from church, several local cops and shopkeepers, a priest at a church I visited, the national head of the prayer group I regularly pray with (he went the day after my husband). Not to mention that if I drive 10 miles to church or work I pass multiple memorials to persons who died in road accidents. I am also aware of other fairly dramatic deaths that occurred in the neighborhood due to poor driving and are not memorialized.

We go when God says it’s time, I reckon.
One gets used to it but I wouldn’t want to go through it without God by my side.
 
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Yes, I pray for these recently deceased. Lord have mercy.

None of us know the time or the hour. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, holy mother.

Eternal peace and rest be granted those dear ones recently departed.
 
‘Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.’ - Matt 6:34
 
I always thought to myself that i would die when I am old and in my bed…,but these days I think God has other plans for me…God bless.

Like they say a 100 years is a blink of an eye compared to eternity?..so true…
 
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