Article about Kobe Bryant

[on_the_hill]

Kobe Bryant Prayed At Catholic Church Hours Before Helicopter Crash

Interesting that he hadn’t been Confirmed.

 

[DeniseNY]

May God grant him (and all those lost) blessed repose and eternal memory

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I pray that God grants him, along with everybody else who has died in the last few weeks who we don’t hear above, eternal rest in Heaven and provides any sacramental grace to all of them that they need.

 

[po18guy]

In truth, we mourn for ourselves. He and his daughter (as we pray for all that were aboard) are in the most merciful hands that exist.

So many ask why. Heaven will not be denied its Saints, and we do not know what future trauma the Lord mercifully spared them from.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

we do not know what future trauma the Lord mercifully spared them from.

This is a good point. I often remind myself that now I will not have to spend the next few decades waiting to see if my husband developed Alzheimers like his mom did. I was already wondering a bit how to deal with that and if there were any tests we should have done in advance.

 

[DeniseNY]

we do not know what future trauma the Lord mercifully spared them from.

Yes. This is something that was told to me when my mother died just when it seemed her melanoma treatment was working (her tumors were shrinking). We don’t know what the future holds, and she could have been in for something more horrible than what she already endured. God is merciful.