Memento Mori by Rev. Vicki Joy McClure, MAPM, BCC December 2008 Rev. Vicki Joy McClure In my experience as a hospital chaplain, I face almost daily the reality that we are born, we live, and we die. Yes, it is a built-in condition of human existence that our lives flicker up

Liminality by Rev. Vicki Joy McClure, MAPM, BCC June 2009 “What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning.” (T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding) You would think that since we go through so much change in this life, that we’d be

Devotion and a Prayer by Rev. Vicki Joy McClure, MAPM, BCC October 2008 Rev. Vicki Joy McClure While I was away from the hospital, I received a page from a nurse who was wheeling an elderly woman patient in her bed to emergency surgery. The patient was asking for a Catholic

A Memorial Service Homily: "Remembering the Love" by Rev. Vicki Joy McClure, MAPM, BCC June 2008 Rev. Vicki Joy McClure Every quarter, the hospital where I work has a memorial service in honor of those who have died at the hospital in the last months. It is a time when families