These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.

"But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." (Mk 13:24-32)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111724.cfm
I’ll always be grateful to my grandmother’s wisdom. One day I was worried about something I had heard at church about the “end of the world.” My grandmother responded, “Son, don’t be worried about all that foolishness. The world ends every day when someone dies.”