In one of his reflections, he writes about a priest in New South Wales named Father O.K. Kennedy…

Father Brady was giving a retreat to the nuns at Cowra “sometime in the 1940s”. He writes: I was staying at the presbytery [the house of a Roman Catholic priest]. The parish priest was Father O.K. Kennedy who had suffered a stroke and was paralysed down one side and in one arm…

One night when the two assistant priests and I were occupied in the church an urgent sick call came in. Father O.K. answered the telephone. He was not supposed to drive or to venture out without assistance, but to O.K. a sick parishioner took priority over all lesser matters of health, safety and comfort.

He shuffled up to the garage, managed to get the car out despite only one good arm and leg. Then drove himself to the home of the sick parishioner. He got someone to get him a chair, then went through the liturgical prayers, anointed the sick person and gave the final blessing.

Then he drove himself back to the presbytery. Fortunately he did not try to put the car back in the garage but left it parked outside the presbytery…

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