Did Judas receive the Holy Eucharist, from the hand of Jesus, while in the state of mortal sin?
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When you didn't cry in delivery, we tried everything to wake you.
The prayers, the tears, the long-held breaths; and still your skin was blue.
Stimulation, warmth, meds, oxygen; everything in the carts...
"Time to say goodbye," they said. What of our broken hearts?
A gift-bear was scrounged and cut. We emptied out some fluff.
The goal?--to meme a clone of you, with loving kinds of stuff.
Your weight was taken--why, they asked--because we had a plan.
On the scale, your bear was precisely-filled, with little bags of sand.
We remember your birth and death, from that sad day, long ago.
We knew the place where you had gone, your soul in heaven aglow.
Your earthly bear maintained your pounds, no matter what the day.
To comfort Mom with thoughts of you: when she hugged it, cried and prayed.
-2025
Science cannot explain suffering. As Lay Passionist and nurse, she challenges modern health care assumptions; contraception, abortion, euthanasia, herd immunity and more. Behind every health dilemma, God asks us to abide in Him. Author of 7 books & >20 peer-reviewed nursing journal articles; she also writes as "The Catholic Nurse" on Substack, see "Archives." She is a veteran of the Army Nurse Corps. Her primary charism is mercy through which she explores redemptive suffering, spiritual healing and the joy of bringing of souls to God.
