Book of Remembrance
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Please Remember in Your Prayers the Deceased Parishioners of the St. Anthony of Padua Parish

(February)

Eveline Tomei, Richard Goodman, 
Blanche Steer, Michael Connolly,

Anne Hucock, Christina Smith,

Lilian Aitken, Henry Whelehan,

Barbara Redway, Joseph Gilroy,

Basil Byrn Hely, James Moloney,

Andrea Bonito, James Liddy,

Marie Young, Edward Allen Forsythe, 
Archibald Melville, Ernest Parson,

Cyril Merchant, Patrick Hickey,

James Moynihan, John Stephen Murphy, 
Mary Shaw, Julia Nolan, 
SharonMarshall, Barbara Nicholas,

Eva Cummins, Nell Gomer,

Charles Ennis, Thomas Hughes,

Charles Wallace, Mary Gorman,

 Terry Maguire, Rose Chapman,

Alice Kelly, Linda Hamilton,  

Maurice Raphael, Mary Cavanagh,

Bill McGrath, George  James Morris,

Ria Green,  Catherine McHugh, 
Armando Fernandes, Eileen  Simmons, Joe Curran, 
Tony Apicella, Bridie Allen,

Cynthia Mary Westley, Olive Wylie


May they rest in peace.

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What is dying?

I am standing on the sea shore.

A ship at my side spreads her

white sails in the morning breeze

and starts for the blue ocean.

She is an object of beauty and I

stand and watch her until at last

she fades on the horizon.

Then someone at my side says

“There, she has gone” –

Gone where?

Gone from my sight – that is all.

She is just as large in the mast,

hull and spars as she was

when she left my side....

The diminished size

and total loss of sight

is in me and not in her,

and just at the moment when

someone by my side says

“She is gone,”

and others take up the glad shout

-        “There she comes.”

 

-        Bishop Brent 1862 – 1929

Bishop of the Philippines


 

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Alone

 We may feel terribly alone, cut off from everybody. We may find it hard to speak. We may feel that no one can understand what we are going through. Yet we are united with Christ, so we are one with him with the person we love. We can reflect for a moment on these words of prayer: "May God unite us with all the saints and faithful departed. May we be given a merciful judgment, so that redeemed from death, freed from punishment, reconciled to the Father, carried in the arms of the Good Shepherd, we may deserve to enter fully into everlasting happiness in the company of the eternal King together with all the saints."

 (Based on a prayer from the Funeral Rite)

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The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

Fresh and green are the pastures where he gives me repose.

Near restful waters he leads me, to revive my drooping spirit.

 

He guides me along the right path; he is true to his name.

If I should walk in the valley of darkness no evil would I fear.

You are there with your crook and your staff; with these you give me comfort

 

You have prepared a banquet for me in the sight of my foes.

My head you have anointed with oil; my cup is over flowering.

 

Surely goodness and kindness shall follow mw all the days of my life.

In the Lord’s own house shall I dwell for ever and ever

(Psalm 22)

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Grief

Grief cannot be shared, for is mine alone,

Grief is a dying within me,

a great emptiness,

a frightening void.

It is loneliness, a sickening sorrow at night,

on awakening a terrible dread.

Another's words do not help.

A reasoned argument explains little

for having tried too much.

Silence is the best response to another's grief.

Not the silence that is a pause in speech,

awkward and unwanted,

but one that unites heart to heart.

Love, speaking in silence, is the way into

the void of another's grief.

The best of all loves comes silently,

and slowly too, to soften the pain of grief,

and begin to dispel the sadness.

It is the love of God, warm and true,

which will touch the grieving heart and heal it.

He looks at the grieving person and has pity,

for grief is a great pain.

He came among us to learn about grief,

and much else too, this Man of Sorrows.

He knows. He understands.

Grief will yield to peace - in time.

 
 Cardinal Basil Hume, OSB

 


 

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