Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice

"In my sixties" (1822 – 1832)

Ages 60 – 70

"I have lived 60 years as of today and now I enter my 61st. I’m not the man I once was in Callan, but I’m not yet the person that God is calling me to be. These are desperate times. We live in a broken world, but with each movement of the Spirit I sense a glimmer of hope. None more than in the classrooms where my Brothers are making Christ known in and through all that they do."

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"The Concluding Years" (1838 – 1844)

Ages 76 – 82

In the winter of Edmund’s seventy-fith year his body signaled, with a variety of aches, pains, and touches of restricted mobility, it was time to recalculate his engagements. In January of 1838 he wrote his Brothers announcing a General Chapter and forecasting his impending resignation. The following month he updated his Last Will and Testament noting that while weak of body he had full powers of mind and thought.

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