Emphasis Preaching Journal
One in revelation and glory
Commentary
The late Cardinal Cushing said that, when he was a parish priest, he was summoned to a store to give last rites to a man who had collapsed. Following the custom of his church, he knelt by the man and asked, "Do you believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit?" Then, the Cardinal said, the man roused a little, opened one eye, and said, "Here I am dying -- and you ask me a riddle?"