Fr. Martin Fox: All Souls Day Homily

Fr. Martin Fox discusses the importance of facing death and Last Rites in his All Souls Day homily.

As a priest, I will often come to a bedside, and I don’t always know if the end is near; it may even seem obvious to me, and yet the person in the bed, the family, are not facing it.

No one comes out and says, “give him Last Rites”; And it can be upsetting to offer it in those cases. The shame is, the priest will leave and not get called till its too late.

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