Thank you for this! Thanks for Fr. Chris (one of those many priests out there doing their job well and with sensitivity). I know one thing after watching my husband care for Alzheimer Patients for 30 years....there's more communication than just words...so much more.
Susan | 06.30.03 - 1:27 pm | #

The same sort of reversion during early-stage Alzheimer's happened with my aunt's husband who'd called himself an atheist for years. He went back to the time when he'd been Catholic.
Sandra Miesel | 06.30.03 - 1:34 pm | #

Just the opposite happened with my mother who had been a devout Catholic all her life, never missing Mass if it was humanly possible to be there.

She spent the last two years in a nursing home near me, and flatly refused to have anything to do with Communion or the Eucharistic Minister who also held a service once a week. I've always thought part of the problem was the lack of a priest. When her former pastor (he was retired) came to the hospital to visit her, he annointed her and she was quite receptive.
Carrie | Homepage | 06.30.03 - 2:11 pm | #

Thank you for sharing this. Many of us have family members who are alienated from the Church. May the Lord touch all of them.
Lynn | 06.30.03 - 7:39 pm | #