tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post8622101289192473343..comments2024-03-12T07:54:08.013+00:00Comments on Offerimus Tibi Domine: Church rather poorlyFr Simon Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375804232895565241noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-2301659324703036722014-03-03T18:31:32.722+00:002014-03-03T18:31:32.722+00:00Father the comment about the medical profession’s ...Father the comment about the medical profession’s mantra of a ‘positive attitude’ being necessary for recovery hit home with me.<br /><br />Many years ago my father was diagnosed with cancer and after a number of interventions was not expected to recover. I was here in the US at the time and came home quickly once informed. He was in the hospital at the time and after visiting him I found his doctor and asked how long he had. The doctor said “about three months”. I asked if he had told him that and he gave me a look of horror, saying: “No. If told, they sometimes go downhill quickly…” <br /><br />I had a different perspective. The man needed to know and have an opportunity to prepare himself and take care of any outstanding matters in the interim. So I told him. I felt that if it were me, I would want my son to tell me also. We took him home and he spent his last three months at home, visited by his friends and former co-workers. Knowing the Irish penchant for downplaying things, I informed all of them that he knew his situation and not to raise false hopes, but just be supportive – and they were.<br /><br />It would not be a bad ending for any of us.GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-31289090135197558622014-03-02T16:59:31.356+00:002014-03-02T16:59:31.356+00:00Thank you for this, Father.
If grey areas exist, ...Thank you for this, Father.<br /><br />If grey areas exist, I think there are far fewer than we are sometimes led to believe. The picture you have chosen is a good example of varied shades of grey being achieved by a greater or lesser density of black hatching on white paper. Another way of producing this effect could be seen in old newspaper photographs, which were composed of black dots on a white ground. The more closely one examined it, the more one could distinguish between black and white. <br /><br />I’d like to think that a way might be found through more than a few moral dilemmas, by looking at the situation in depth and in detail. Looked at more closely, there could be a way through; and at least it would become clearer whether there were any black lines or spots which could not be ignored or set aside.Dorothy Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00858061638961520926noreply@blogger.com