Peter Stockland: Palliative centre a light in darkness St. Raphael’s Palliative Care Home and Day Centre in Montreal’s Outremont borough. Photo from Google Street View Peter Stockland: Palliative centre a light in darkness By Peter Stockland April 24, 2021
Amid the deep shadows of ever-expanding MAiD and examples of hospice care being brutally extinguished, a gesture of transformation by the Archdiocese of Montreal lights a candle in the dark.
To enter St. Raphael’s Palliative Care Home and Day Centre in the city’s Outremont borough is to witness the good that comes when people of the faith combine with bright, imaginative community-ordered minds to turn a dying church into a locus of life.