Angela Alaimo O'Donnell shares stories from her new book, Mortal Blessings: A Sacramental Farewell, about how the mundane tasks of caregiving during her mother’s final days—bathing, feeding, taking her for a walk in her wheelchair—became rituals or ordinary sacraments that revealed traces of the divine.
In this interview, O'Donnell shares insights into the "Catholic imagination," a sacramental worldview, her life as a poet, her inspirations as an artist growing up in the Catholic Church, and her very moving stories of caring for her mother towards the end of her life.
