{"id":152811,"date":"2016-03-22T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/ask-a-priest-what-does-a-death-heralding-dream-mean\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T19:18:05","slug":"ask-a-priest-what-does-a-death-heralding-dream-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/ask-a-priest-what-does-a-death-heralding-dream-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAsk a Priest: What Does a Death-Heralding Dream Mean?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<address>Q: I had a dream that a piece of paper told me that I would die at age 23. I dreamt that my grandma was in the hospital and everyone else thought she was dead, but she talked to me and she wasn&#8217;t. (She&#8217;s not dead in real life.) So then my cousin appeared in a corner of the room and handed me a piece of paper showing me the days I could have died, and then at the bottom it said I&#8217;d die at 23 &#8212; what does it mean? I have been freaking out! -L.<\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Answered by Fr. Edward McIlmail, LC<\/p>\n<p>A: In one sense, I wouldn&#8217;t put too much stock in the dream &#8212; dreams are notoriously hard to interpret and there is no need to drive yourself crazy trying to do so. Most likely, it doesn\u2019t mean anything specific at all. Nonetheless, Jesus did tell us to be ready for death at any moment. &#8220;You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/24:44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew 24:44<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The time Our Lord gives us in this world is the time we have to become saints, with God&#8217;s grace. 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He was an assistant publisher of the National Catholic Register and Faith &amp; Family magazine and an editor of the Zenit news agency\u2019s English edition. He has written for\u00a0SpiritualDirection.com\u00a0and\u00a0ePriest. Fr. McIlmail also worked in spiritual retreats in the Northeast, New England, the Midwest, and the South\u00a0and assisted with mission work in Mexico. Born in Philadelphia, he worked in journalism and was active in the pro-life movement before entering the novitiate of the Legion of Christ in 1992. His contributions to RCSpirituality include responding to\u00a0Ask A Priest\u00a0questions and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/emcilmail\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152811"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=152811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}