David Ancell / Thursday September 12, 2024
I have seen some social media posts on my feed from people who have found out they have terminal cancer and not too long to live. May I send out a bit of a reminder here? When you see these things, it’s a great opportunity to do a small but very beneficial act of charity to pray for that person and his or her family. You may not even remember them again, but nothing like this that you send to the ears of Our Lord will be wasted.
I know nothing about the people whose posts I saw. That doesn’t matter. It costs me so little to pray for them, and it may be what helps them be ready to meet God if they are not healed in this life. Maybe you’ll run across a post like this from someone whom you know to have led a life of sin. We should especially pray for these people. What if our prayers meant their salvation? No matter what someone has done, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile not desiring their salvation with Christian charity. Besides, our only hope is in the grace of God.
I make it a point also to pray for the souls of anyone about whose death I hear, even if I have no idea who they are or if I know them to be a manifest public sinner. Even if they are already in Heaven or have gone to Hell, I know that my prayer is not wasted and will be used somehow.
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Thank you, David, for sharing the important prayers of all of us for souls who are dying now and have died.
Please pray for Paul Bowlin in a nursing home whom I visit weekly through the Legion of Mary, who came into the Church last year. He has cancer and is declining in health. He clings to his crucifix and rosary.