Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

When Words Fail, Faith Speaks: Dementia and the Eucharist’s Embrace

Kate Fassbender
Kate Fassbender poses with her grandmother, Marie Fassbender, during a family baby shower a year and a half after her diagnosis with vascular dementia.

‘It was a spiritual memory that cannot be described in any other form of memory. She never forgot her prayers, her faith nor the people that formed her…’