HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY

Hospital chaplaincy has no material advantages nor financial rewards, but I have found it to be the most deepening and rewarding experience of my life. Yes I love my four children, 30 years practicing law quite successfully and sometimes tragically. In the 1970's I was an "asset" for the United States Information Service abroad in Latin America, travelled to over 20 countries, served as a police officer in California, taught and practiced law in the US and Mexico, and had a wonderful life with a spouse from Mexico who died 10 years ago. Today working with the critically ill both at the moment of death and as they so slowly recuperate from tragic accident and illness, has given me a profound spiritual and emotional understanding of God's mysterious yet perfect loving plan for humanity. My cathedral is the hospital, my chapel is the patient's room, my sanctuary is the Sunday spot where I celebrate Mass in the hospital every Sunday