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Reiser’s Ramblings is a
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of Fr. Bernard Reiser’s best columns written over the past three
decades. Be inspired all over again as you read Father’s take on
everyday topics such as family, kindness, gratitude, prayer, helping
others, and staying focused on what’s important in life. 
All profits from the sale of Reiser’s Ramblings go to Haitian relief
efforts sponsored by Reiser Relief Inc. Help the needy and get
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the best columns originally written for the parishioners of the Church
of the Epiphany, Coon Rapids, MN
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Size: 6x9x5/8
Weight: 1lb.
Pages: 268
Binding: Perfect
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ISBN:
978-0-615-36478-0
LCCN: 2010904474
Publisher: Reiser
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Author: Fr. Bernard
Reiser
Editor: Jacqueline
Hilgert
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Recollections: The Pastor
and Important Early
Influences
My first memories go back to the farm where my parents, Aloys and
Ottilia Reiser, raised me, my brother, and my three sisters during the
Great Depression.
My father was a truck farmer, meaning the vegetables and meat he raised
was trucked into the Minneapolis Farmers Market for sale
every day. Farming was a difficult way to support a family during the
Great Depression yet my father never faltered in his faith that God
would provide for us. My father never said, “We’ll try” when telling us
something needed to get done. Instead, he told us, “We will!” This
lesson in perseverance was one all of his children took to heart.
The little parish we attended in Medina, Minnesota, was called Holy
Name, a small country parish of seventy families with a
parish school of about eighty students, divided into two classrooms. We
attended Holy Name through eighth grade and learned our lessons so well
that we outpaced
our public school classmates once we moved onto Wayzata High School.
It was at home on our family farm and at events in our small parish
where I developed my love for God and the Catholic faith. My parents
worked hard, fed us well, loved us and loved
each other. Never once did I hear my parents quarrel.
I was ordained in 1949 and have devoted the remainder of my life to the
faith, serving God’s people, ministering, presiding over
baptisms, marriages and funerals, lifting up the needy, helping the
poor.
Since my ordination, I have traveled around the globe, witnessed
dramatic world events, built up God’s church to the best of my ability,
and paused
once a week to jot down my thoughts on it all. In this first section, I
share some of my columns to give you an idea about the early influences
that shaped me.
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Something better is coming!
There was a woman who had been diagnosed with cancer and had been given
three months to live. Her doctor told her to start making preparations
to die (something we all should be doing all of the time), so she
contacted her pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain
aspects of her final wishes. She told him which songs she wanted sung
at the service, what Scripture passages she would like read, and what
she wanted to be wearing. The woman also told her pastor that she
wanted to be buried with
her favorite Bible.
Everything was in order and the pastor was preparing to leave when the
woman suddenly remembered something very important to her. “There’s one
more thing,” she said excitedly. “What’s that?” came the pastor’s reply.
“This is very important,” the woman continued. “I want to be buried
with a fork in my right hand.”
The pastor stood looking at the woman not knowing quite  what to say.
“That shocks you, doesn’t it?” the woman asked.
“Well, to be honest, I’m puzzled by the request,” said the pastor.
The woman explained. “In all my years of attending church socials and
functions where food was involved, my favorite part was when whoever
was clearing away the dishes of the main course would lean over and
say, “You can keep your fork.” It was my favorite part because I knew
something better was coming.
When they told me to keep my fork, I knew that something great was
about to be given to me. It wasn’t Jell-O or pudding but cake or pie,
something with substance. So I just want people to see me there in that
casket with a fork in my hand and I want them to wonder, “What’s with
the fork?” Then I want you to tell them, “Something better is coming,
so keep your fork, too.”
The pastor’s eyes welled up with tears of joy as he hugged the woman
goodbye. He knew this would be one of the last times he would see her
before her death. But he also knew that this woman had a better grasp
of Heaven than he did. She KNEW that something better was coming.
At the funeral people were walking by the woman’s casket, they saw the
pretty dress she was wearing, her favorite Bible, and the fork placed
in her right hand. Over and over the pastor heard the question, “What’s
with the fork?” and over and over he smiled.
During his short message, the pastor told the people of the
conversation he had with the woman shortly before she died. He also
told them about the fork and what it symbolized to her. The pastor told
the people how he could not stop thinking about the fork and told them
that they probably would not be able to stop thinking about it either.
He was right.
So the next time you reach down for your fork, let it remind you, oh so
gently, that there is something better coming!
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