Mortal blessings : a sacramental farewell

Mortal blessings : a sacramental farewell / Angela Alaimo O'Donnell.

In this lyrical adieu to her mother, renowned Catholic essayist, poet, and professor Angela O'Donnell explores how the mundane tasks of caregiving during her mother's final days--bathing, feeding, taking her for a walk in her wheelchair -- became rituals or ordinary sacraments that reveale...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Donnell, Angela Alaimo
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : Ave Maria Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Caregivers > Religious life.
Sacraments > Catholic Church.
Death > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Terminal care > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Care of the sick.
Caring > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Table of Contents:
  • The sacrament of speech
  • The sacrament of distance
  • The sacrament of beauty
  • The sacrament of humor
  • The sacraments of the cell phone and the wheelchair
  • The sacrament of witness
  • The sacrament of honor
  • The sacrament of memory.

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