At age 100, this Catholic priest reveals the secret to longevity
“I turned down Hollywood!” He says, Dapper laughed as he pointed to a young priest portrait, scrolled his hair and flashed with a wide smile.
Reverend James Kelly laughs as he says that the secret of long life is too much milk and prayer.Credit: AP
He also points to a photo by a Philadelphia newspaper that he climbed to the top of a bridge on the Roman side and prevented a man from jumping into his death.
“Nobody would climb there, so I climbed – he was a height of 400 feet. The bitter was a cold day, or he says.
“I could talk to him and I was emotionally disintegrated, so he wouldn’t jump. I said to him, ‘What will your grandson say one day: Pope, why didn’t you fish?’ ‘
To be grateful for imagination, friends and simple pleasures
He says that his imagination is one of his favorite words and wrote his university thesis. “Jesus used it to teach his imagination, or he says, when he prepared his own sermons, he became an example.
A photo of priest James Kelly as a young priest.Credit: AP
Traveling to more than 100 countries and testing other memories such as Calcutta Saint Teresa, also known as Anne Theresa. Kelly said that they were friends in Philadelphia and running to each other in the holy grave church in Jerusalem. Centenary, a group of blind children, Soprano Joan Sutherland’i like his friend who liked the time he took the live performance.
“I was lucky to meet the most amazing, good people in this world, and they are the most generous and elegant for me, Kel says Kelly.
These days enjoy simple tastes: the taste of the cherries, a beautiful song or favorite meal – mashed potatoes, fresh wire beans and corn fry chicken.
He loves to learn and often attends music, art history and Egyptian classes at the Estates Pension Group of Normandy Farms, where he lives in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.
The apartment was decorated with a picture of the Virgin Mary, which he draws with chalk, a portrait of his mother and a note signed by the deceased Pope Francis.
At the bedside table, it holds an image of Carlo Acutis, the first thousand -year -old saint of the Catholic Church. Kelly is inspired by Acutis, who died in 2006 at the age of 15. Especially how Acutis uses his devotion and computer skills to create an online exhibition on the miracles of Eucharistic, known by the church for centuries.
The ritual of a humble daily mass and the secret of a long life
Every morning, he wakes up without the need for an alarm clock and says the same prayer: “God, how much surprise is there for me today?”
“I hope it will be a good thing I will love and enjoy. I never know, but I want to thank you no matter what today.”
The priest James Kelly takes off Roman collar and is preparing to go to a doctor’s appointment.Credit: AP
After a cup of coffee, he celebrates the audience in his apartment for several residents of his community.
“When I moved here, I never thought I would have a special chapter!” Kathleen Quigley, a retired nurse, was released after a recent service. “I just love my faith and it is a great fortress of faith for me. I just come down, mass, we talk, he shares his food.”
Kelly once served the great communities, but he thinks that the daily mass in the living room was important.
“Not in a beautiful chapel or church. But here I can present my love and efforts to Göksel Baba, or he says. After the last prayer, he always remembers to be grateful.
“This is the only thing I can say – two words: thank you. I have to spend another day and I can eat some delicious cherries today and meet people and new friends, or he says. “God knows what surprises I will encounter today.”
Long -lasting secret?
Orum I drink a lot of milk, ”he says, laughing. “And I pray a lot.”
