Post by thinkinkmesa on Apr 4, 2012 0:36:26 GMT -5
Life After Death
Thomas More alum discusses new life as spiritual advisor for death row inmates
Sometimes really big changes can happen due to the smallest of reasons. For Dale Recinella, his life underwent a major transformation after having a plate of raw oysters for dinner one night in the late 1990s.
A corporate attorney working in international finance, Recinella was enjoying a comfortable lifestyle in southern Florida with his wife and five children when the change occurred. He became violently ill after eating the oysters and fell into a coma; perplexed doctors at a Tampa hospital told his family to expect the worse.
But Recinella, a devout Catholic who got his undergraduate degree from Thomas More College in Northern Kentucky and graduated law school at Notre Dame University, said he had a religious experience while unconscious. In his fevered state, Recinella saw Jesus Christ, who asked him what he had accomplished with the gifts he had been given.
“We had quite an exchange,” Recinella recalled, laughing. “At first, I denied having any of his gifts.”
More;
www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-25231-life_after_death.html
Thomas More alum discusses new life as spiritual advisor for death row inmates
Sometimes really big changes can happen due to the smallest of reasons. For Dale Recinella, his life underwent a major transformation after having a plate of raw oysters for dinner one night in the late 1990s.
A corporate attorney working in international finance, Recinella was enjoying a comfortable lifestyle in southern Florida with his wife and five children when the change occurred. He became violently ill after eating the oysters and fell into a coma; perplexed doctors at a Tampa hospital told his family to expect the worse.
But Recinella, a devout Catholic who got his undergraduate degree from Thomas More College in Northern Kentucky and graduated law school at Notre Dame University, said he had a religious experience while unconscious. In his fevered state, Recinella saw Jesus Christ, who asked him what he had accomplished with the gifts he had been given.
“We had quite an exchange,” Recinella recalled, laughing. “At first, I denied having any of his gifts.”
More;
www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-25231-life_after_death.html