In this episode, we mourn two Oklahoma priests and reckon with what brotherhood, death, and the promise of resurrection demand of our vocation. We reflect on last rites, family grief, priestly identity, and the quiet discipline of presence at the edge of life.

• priestly life lived near death and dying
• last rites as reconciliation, anointing, commendation
• stories of peaceful deaths and hard departures
• families navigating acceptance, anger and fear
• presence over performance in pastoral care
• missed anointing and the cost of denial
• shared priesthood as one cloth across parishes
• imago Christi and the weight of the collar
• respect and reverence beyond Catholic spaces
• mourning as a way back to hope and footing
• catholic as universal, many seats, one aisle
• cemetery as memory, legacy and promise

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Father Don Wolf is a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. Living Catholic also broadcasts on Oklahoma Catholic Radio several times per week, with new episodes airing every Sunday.