5 Priests Were at His Deathbed. Here's Why. | Fr. Ripperger

Fr. Chad Ripperger shares personal testimony about the Nine First Fridays devotion to the Sacred Heart — and how a promise made in childhood protected three members of his own family at the hour of their death.
His first brother: five priests at his deathbed. His second brother: all sacraments, including the apostolic pardon, 15 minutes before death. His father: last rites the day he died.
"This devotion is real."
He also recounts the story of a man who fell away from the faith entirely — yet God still provided a priest for his final confession, honouring a devotion made in youth. An unprovided death is dying in a state of mortal sin with no means to receive the sacraments. The Nine First Fridays is one of the surest ways the Church gives us to guard against it.
5 Priests Were at His Deathbed. Here's Why. | Fr. Ripperger