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I was sitting next to a bed. The patient was old enough to have kids my age. She’d had a rough night. She wanted to talk to the priest, but I would do for now. As we were visiting, a man walked into the room, one of her sons. He greeted me, looked at his […]

God- That year is almost done. We know that years don’t really contain events, but they are our way of keeping track of what happens. Some of us are relieved that 2025 is done. It’s been a year with painful moments and tragic events. Some of us are relieved that 2026 is almost here. It […]

People die the week of Christmas. People die every week, of course, but for families and healthcare workers, there is something that feels harder about walking out of the room and out of the building when all the halls are decked. This week, talking with a couple families, I acknowledged, quietly, that the heart of […]

There is a font at the entrance to our hospital chapel. The water is, I suppose, holy water. I assume the priest who serves patients at the hospital, who offers Mass every day, who blesses us all with his heart and hands, also occasionally blesses the water. Chaplains are responsible to clean the font every […]

Rich Dixon just keeps wondering things. +++ My friend Paul offered a curious description of the Sermon on the Mount. He said it was an unruly Rabbi on the side of a hill. His audience was mostly the poor, the sick, the marginalized. This unruly Rabbi spent three years saying and doing outrageous things. Talking […]