Wednesday, December 6, 2017

He was not always well received, however. Although the sick person had been given up by the doctors, it was often feared that the visit of the priest would hasten the end. To those who entertained such vain fears, Don Cafasso had this to say, “Cheatful world! Why this cruelty? You don’t want to frighten him?...You think it is better to leave him to go the other world with his eyes closed, and find himself there without knowing it, Even if breaking the news to him hastened his temporal death, that would be more charitable than to promote his soul to eternal death.” (pg. 107 of Walk While You Have Light: The Story of St. Joseph Cafasso, the Priests’ Priest by Arthur Jalbert, M.S.) Nihil Obstat: Joseph D. Brokhage, S.T.D. Censor Liborum Imprimatur: Paul C. Schulte, D.D. , Archbishop of Indianapolis March 13, 1954

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