Hi friends, Please remember Doris in your prayers today. Doris had been suffering from end stage renal disease for several agonizing years and finally went home to be with the Lord at 3:00pm this afternoon. She died in the Sacraments and was very devout, with a deep Marian devotion. When my children were small, we used to go up to Maine for a week during the summer and spend it with Doris and her husband at her husband’s family’s rickety old cabin on a lake there. I have some of the fondest memories of our time there. Doris also had her own “ministry” and was the first friend who ever encouraged me to take up writing on Catholic things, in the 1990s. She saw something in my writing I never knew was there. It’s hard to lose yet another of a shrinking pool of close friends, but I’m happy for her, not sad. When I had so many health problems in fall 2020 to spring 2021, we would frequently joke about who was going to cross the finish line first. Given her difficulties the last few years, I’m glad she won the race.
Brian I am sorry for you to lose your friend. Its the hardest thing there is to know you won't see her for what may be a very long while but I have a feeling she is now a very special intercessor for you even as you (and we) pray for her. She is closer now in many ways. She has heaven's insight and will help you in unseen manifold ways. It's just a strong feeling I have about this. Having said all that I will still surely pray for her soul. Even tho she may not need it.
I will pray for Doris and for those who are grieving. She was right, Brian. You are an excellent writer.
not a coincidence Brian. Your friend was called at the hour of Divine Mercy. I will pray for her but thinking I should ask her to intercede for us! But, I know you are in grief/ so prayers that you find solace and comfort that Doris is free from her earthly tent. Peace.
May Doris find her eternal peace in the the Glory of God. My condolences Brian, it's hard to lose a good friend.
