Pray for Alex Reynolds (updated 10/21/22 - Improving)

Basilica parishioner Alex Reynolds, young adult son of Jim & Susan Reynolds, was hospitalized in critical condition with sepsis and was not breathing on his own. Alex’s doctors indicated that his passing is imminent. He received sacramental Anointing.   

UPDATE 10/21/22:  Alex is improving a little bit each day. He is still in ICU, but the doctors are hoping that in a few days he will be able to move to his own room. Thanks for the continued prayers.

UPDATE 10/16/22:  Alex is currently breathing on his own! The doctors indicated he may be able to move out of ICU and into a regular room.

The Reynolds family requests prayers for Alex in this uncertain time. Thank you for your prayers!

We will share updated information here.


From a sermon on man’s mortality by Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr
(Cap 18:24, 26: CSEL 3, 308, 312-314)

Our part, my dear brothers, is to be single-minded, firm in faith, and steadfast in courage, ready for God’s will, whatever it may be. Banish the fear of death and think of the eternal life that follows. That will show people that we really live our faith.

We ought never to forget, beloved, that we have renounced the world. We are living here now as aliens and only for a time. When the day of our homecoming puts an end to our exile, frees us from the bonds of the world, and restores us to paradise and to a kingdom, we should welcome it. What man, stationed in a foreign land, would not want to return to his own country as soon as possible? Well, we look upon paradise as our country, and a great crowd of our loved ones awaits us there, a countless throng of parents, brothers and children longs for us to join them. Assured though they are of their own salvation, they are still concerned about ours. What joy both for them and for us to see one another and embrace! O the delight of that heavenly kingdom where there is no fear of death! O the supreme and endless bliss of everlasting life!

There is the glorious band of apostles, there, the exultant assembly of prophets, there, the innumerable host of martyrs, crowned for their glorious victory in combat and in death. There, in triumph, are the virgins who subdued their passions by the strength of continence. There the merciful are rewarded, those who fulfilled the demands of justice by providing for the poor. In obedience to the Lord’s command, they turned their earthly patrimony into heavenly treasure.

My dear brothers, let all our longing be to join them as soon as we may. May God see our desire, may Christ see this resolve that springs from faith, for he will give the rewards of his love more abundantly to those who have longed for him more fervently. 
 

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