What a Priest and a Mortician Teach About Dying Well, by Patti Maguire Armstrong
Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: Great Are Those Who Teach and Obey the Commandments
June 10, 2026
Republicans Launch Bills To Stop Child Predators And Foreigners From Buying Children, by Hannah Bates
June 10, 2026
William Michael Harnett, “Memento Mori” (1879). Death is symbolized in this painting by the skull, the extinguished candle, the empty hourglass, and a quote from the graveyard scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (photo: Public Domain)
By Patti Maguire Armstrong, National Catholic Register, June 8, 2026
Patti (Maguire) Armstrong is an award-winning journalist and was managing editor and co-author of the bestselling Amazing Grace Series. …
COMMENTARY: The more you remember your death in a good way, the more you can embrace this life.
Reflections on death draw us away from the world and deeper into the spiritual realm. The world has a strong gravitational pull on both the mind and the heart, which can lead to forgetting that the most important existence is yet to come. Christians don’t really ever forget that, yet the day-to-day can interfere with right balance between the visible and invisible.
While focusing on this balance, I called Father Stefan Starzynski, who worked as a hospital chaplain for eight years, and I also read a book by a small-town mortician about the unique perspective such a job offers on life and death. …
Related posts
June 10, 2026
June 10, 2026