Important indulgence for moment of death

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This is part of the endless Mercy of God, where those who have been faithful can trust that Christ will give them the peaceful death for which they have prayed.
 
The greater one’s love is for God, the closer the relationship, the ease of offending of God lessens.

I pray every day to come closer to God and for my attachments to sin to be broken.
 
Not at all, just, pray to grow more.

We can get to a place where it is unthinkable to sin against him, but, that is a relationship that takes a long time. We pray to get there someday and keep trying, keep going to Confession.
 
CoffeeFanatic said:
If you’re ever in the position of being in the hospital, do let the nurse who is admitting you know that you are Catholic when they ask if you have any spiritual, religious, or cultural needs. Well over 90% of the patients I admit tell me that they have no such needs or requests. At the very least, a chaplain will visit and an EMHC will come and bring you communion if you do tell them you’re Catholic.
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We had a similar, but not identical, situation when our son was born. We went to a Catholic hospital, and one reason we chose a Catholic hospital was that we saw it better for a baby to be born where Catholic medical ethics are practiced, and where the staff would know what to do if, God forbid, our son had been in extremis — that is to say, emergency baptism.

Once we got settled in, it became apparent to me that the staff, in fact, would be clueless about the necessity for emergency baptism. I asked them something — I don’t recall what — that indicated to me they had no idea. (We live in a heavily non-Catholic area and the staff is of all backgrounds.) I had taken a bottle of holy water with me (I always keep several bottles at home for devotional use) and I left that bottle on the corner shelf the entire time. Aside from going to the cafeteria for a meal (it was steps away) and going out at bedtime for a smoke (right under the room window), I did not leave that suite until he was safely born and verified to be in good shape.

It’s a sad commentary when you can’t even rely upon a Catholic hospital to know the necessity of infant baptism.

Incidentally, I kept that holy water bottle on the table in our bedroom until the day he was baptized a month later.
 
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The important thing is to never stop trying.
Sometimes also you’re not the best judge of whether you’re making progress, but God sees.
 
HomeschoolDad said:
Once we got settled in, it became apparent to me that the staff, in fact, would be clueless about the necessity for emergency baptism. I asked them something — I don’t recall what — that indicated to me they had no idea. (We live in a heavily non-Catholic area and the staff is of all backgrounds.)
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I think the “non-Catholic area” might be a factor in this.
I’ve lived most of my life in heavily Catholic areas and there are always priests and sisters and EMHCs hovering around the hospitals and nursing homes - often they’re the only clergy and religious there (although I did see the local Orthodox priest coming in to provide some kind of liturgy or service for the one man in the nursing home who was from his church once).

I have a Protestant in-law who’s fairly young (in his 20s) and was rushed to a Catholic hospital as a baby and ended up being baptized Catholic, with his parents’ permission, because the hospital was afraid he wouldn’t make it and asked his parents if they could baptize him since the dad was a Baptist minister so the kid hadn’t been baptized as an infant. Parents said yes, kid was baptized, survived and is now a grown-up Baptist man today.
 
My elderly mother died in her sleep. She died while I was at Eucharistic Adoration. I remember praying to God and asking him that when he was ready to call her home that she have a peaceful, happy death. I will never get over her not having last rites. She had end stage dementia, and we just put her in hospice two days before she died. We were all shocked that she passed so quickly. We called priest immediately. He came and annointed her, but she was dead. Our deacon was by earlier in the week to give her Holy Communion. Before she died, we were talking about calling g the priest the next day. We thought we had at least another week or two.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
Once we got settled in, it became apparent to me that the staff, in fact, would be clueless about the necessity for emergency baptism. I asked them something — I don’t recall what — that indicated to me they had no idea. (We live in a heavily non-Catholic area and the staff is of all backgrounds.)
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I agree. It is just the general consensus of society that, baptism or not, babies who tragically die are automatically guaranteed heaven. We certainly hope so, I’d like to think so, but traditionally, we have believed that limbo is at least a possibility, and it conforms to logic and reason.

I have more thoughts on this, but lest the thread begin to drift, I’ll save it for a new thread.
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Don’t feel bad about it. The Lord likely provided for your mom.
My mother had the Last Rites a couple months before her death because she was in ICU after major surgery and not expected to make it. She then lingered for weeks and I finally had to go out of town for business, as I had been putting it off for months worrying that Mom would die in my absence. Of course when I was out of town is when she got real bad and finally passed. Looking back, I should have anticipated it but by that point with her being up and down all summer I don’t think I was in my right mind. I don’t know if she had the Last Rites again or not right when she was dying - it was a Catholic facility and she had had a priest and sister visiting her and bringing her Communion and a Catholic friend of hers was there when she was passing, plus I was not regularly practicing my faith at that time and didn’t think to ask. I would hope the previous set of Last Rites she had 3 months prior carried over or she got them again, in any event she prayed and was devout her whole life so I reckon God and Mother Mary did not leave her in the lurch even though I could have done better.
 
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Fauken said:
I got a metal card engraved with the text for the Apostolic Pardon. One side has English, the other is in Latin. It’s in my wallet, just in case.
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A good idea, did you buy the card pre-engraved and where did you get it, or did you get it engraved yourself?
 
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After much time in hospitals, it is more important that the hospital note your record as CATHOLIC than to get your insurance right.

Catholic hospitals have a wide variety of people on staff, but, they will have a priest and or a sister, as well as other chaplains, who are absolutely trained to do an emergency baptism.
 
And when the person is in a nursing home, and not able to communicate well, have enough Catholic stuff in the room that the priest or deacon or sister knows to stop in. A Mary picture on the wall for instance.
 
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A good idea, did you buy the card pre-engraved and where did you get it, or did you get it engraved yourself?
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I got it in a link I shared in this post:
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/588629969/personalized-metal-wallet-insert-card
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They sell the cards and engraving.
 
I think it means in the state of grace. Indulgences don’t have any effect on those in mortal sin.
 
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