Monday, August 6, 2012
Dear Mary Lou, Jim, Patricia and Michael, No words of mine can mean much now. Your recent loss is far too great and much too close. But for our Dominican Community at Providence College, in behalf of our alumni and alumnae, and in my own name, we want to make known to you, our deepest sympathy. At Mass, in prayer, George is with us. So are you! Katie will be with us forever! At a time such as this, nothing anyone says makes much sense.(Perhaps better than most, I know that.) But it is my hope that the consoling thought of a gifted Trappist monk might help. Thomas Merton wrote, death is where the hills end, and the stars begin. George's "hills" are over now. It's his time to be with the "stars" and their Source. I pray that the deep, inner Peace that thought can induce will be with you and your family...especially now. May Mary, the temple in whom God's Son became a priest, keep you near, in her care. With His Love and all mine,
