The Rev. Dennis Zehren of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota reminded hunters that November is the "Month of the Dead."

“I have never hunted,” Zehren said in the church bulletin. “Some have told me that I should try. ‘It would do you good’, they tell me, ‘to find a more intentional place for yourself on the food chain.’ Perhaps.”

“We have been working hard to keep sanitized and quarantined from death,” Zehren said, “There’s no reason we shouldn’t also love death. Dying to this world begets life. Visit a cemetery. Pray for souls in purgatory. Meditate on a crucifix. Mostly, don’t let death be something you reserve for the final moments of your life.”

Our ancestors have hunted and fished for tens of thousands of years, the priest pointed out.

“How many of us seal and cushion ourselves in our climate-controlled pods for nearly all day?” he asked.

A hunter told him the food chain is a love chain, a thought Zehren found sincere as no one seems to respect nature conservation and animals more than the hunters he's met.

“Hunters know from firsthand experience that life needs death – and death begets life," Zehren said.