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Apr 5, 2023Liked by Aaron Kheriaty, MD

Your conversation at Regent College was amazing. I especially appreciated it as meditation for Holy Week.

I remember reading the conversion story of a medical doctor who was persuaded to explore Catholicism through observing the beautiful peaceful acceptance of death in his Catholic patients. Have we lost that? Or truth be told, do fewer Christians truly believe Christ’s promises?

You very graciously did not mention the glaring temerity of our shepherds who have allowed our Church to be so beholden to the states for grants and funding that they did not push back and instead made us all feel like selfish sinners who did resist. Thank God for the few brave parish priests who quietly “disobeyed” and acknowledged that the sacraments involve body and soul and therefore can’t be reduced to flat screens. They are the heroes. I remember pointing to the saints books on the shelves behind us while sitting in a “safety” meeting at my parish, just prior to reopening, and remarking to the committee what hypocrites we will appear to be to our young people...to extol them to imitate the saints, many of them martyrs, while we cower before a submicroscopic virus.

God bless your heroic efforts, Dr Kherity, and your wife and family who “share” you with us all!

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I love Douglas Farrow so much.

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