Well Done Good & Faithful Servants
Some of us LW types communicate via email. Tony has now begun writing us some thoughts from daily prayer, just as he so often lead us in the past. This week he wrote this to us in response to watching the Lonely Dancer video:
I just yesterday watched the Lonely Dancer video, produced and directed by our Mary G., in 1996, still up on YouTube.
My initial thoughts were to celebrate Mary's creativity and artistry, so here it is: Mary took the command to go proclaim the Gospel into her own heart, and used her gifts and talents to knit together her art with her community to create visual tapestries, whether they be digital or live drama skits.
My deeper thought was to consider the stock that she was hewn from....her dad Joe, and her mum Edna.
Joe and Edna together had a long list of social justice activities that they were associated with....especially feeding people.
I loved Joe's deep voice, which at first sounded like a growl, but was usually punctuated with a deep laugh. Edna was very concerned with feeding people, including the occasional starving artist at the Gillis dining table.
Joe was also on the Oblate Prayer Group Haiti Mission. He took a trip to Haiti in the 1980s, accompanied by 'St Bernard of L.' and 'St Irene of T'.
All of them have left us, to be together on Heaven's shore. We'll be with them all again, someday.
To them all, we say, well done, good and faithful servants.
Tony
We love these thoughts, so filled with gratitude! And we are forever grateful for Tony. Let us pray, as we should, for the Eternal Rest of these friends we remember who are such great gifts to us! Requiscat in Pace
