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Dark Knight
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Very sorry to hear of this ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Meerkat
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I never interacted with the dear lady, so do not have a 'personal' experience. I can say, however, that when lurking over the years, I did read her slant on things with interest. May God hold her close and give her the best of rest for eternity. So sad.
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Full Circle
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with prayers for all she loved and all who loved her
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Adrienne
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Originally posted by ebeth:
Funeral is scheduled for Tues, 8 May Baltimore, MD Cathedral of the Incarnation
ebeth, Maleveque,
Our thoughts and prayers go with you tomorrow. I know you take with you love and sympathy from folk here on the Ship to all who knew and loved Genevieve.
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QLib
Bad Example
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Originally posted by Adrienne:
ebeth, Maleveque,
Our thoughts and prayers go with you tomorrow. I know you take with you love and sympathy from folk here on the Ship to all who knew and loved Genevieve.
Amen, and Amen.
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amber.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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EBeth and Maleveque,I will be with you in spirit tomorrow, sorry I couldn't be there with you.
![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) MB
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harmony hope
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That it is okay for me not to have told my mother what my operation is for next week Monday 14th - I don't mean to be hurtful but I need to stay positive and she is very likely to look it up online and tell me what might go wrong... and we're not that emotionally close. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
For all who mourn and all facing medical treatment...that the Lord might walk alongside us all.
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harmony hope
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So sorry - didn't mean my last post to go here! So sorry...
My thoughts are so much with Genevieve and her family and her congregation - may she rest in peace and rise in Glory.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Here's the newspaper obituary.
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maleveque
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Here is a Facebook post from St. Peters Church:
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To all our Facebook friends far and wide,
Thank you all for your messages of sympathy and support. The outpouring of love from across the country and indeed, around the globe, is a tremendous source of comfort to us all at St. Peter's. We've experienced a shocking and sudden tragedy and find ourselves wrapped in sorrow. Many of us are are still numb, going through the motions and handling the practicalities, breaking down in tears now and again but pushing on. We miss our beloved sisters Mary-Marguerite and Brenda more than we can express; we see their faces and hear their voices as we move through our days. They remain a part of us even as we celebrate their lives and their passing on to a new life in Our Creator, the center of love. We thank and bless you for helping us along our unexpected journey from routine to tragedy to God's all embracing peace.
ebeth and I will take your prayers with us tomorrow. Please post anything you would like us to say (if we have that opportunity).
- Anne L.
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Lothlorien
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ebeth and I will take your prayers with us tomorrow. Please post anything you would like us to say (if we have that opportunity).
- Anne L.
I would say thank you for the comforting words of wisdom.
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Mamacita
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First, ebeth and maleveque and Motherboard, my condolences to you who knew her personally. I can only imagine how deeply that must be felt. She always seemed to be someone I would have enjoyed knowing.
I guess I would have you tell the folks at St Peter's and in the Diocese of Maryland what you are probably already planning on saying: That there were people from all over the world who loved her, whose lives she touched, and who miss her. And who are holding her community in prayer as they try to come to grips with this terrible loss.
I like how the obituary mentioned her always wearing hats. No wonder she chose an avatar with a big beautiful hat. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Amazing Grace
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What Mamacita said.
I will be asking my friends at St. Spike's who were here when our then-rector was murdered (in an off-premises robbery) thirty-some years ago for special prayers for the community at St. Peter's. May the Lord bless you and keep you in this difficult time.
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Janine
The Endless Simmer
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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
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Originally posted by Spike:
no words.
... Just grief, and anger, and the hope - against all the odds - that something like this won't happen again.
Unfortunately, it will. We are but broken creatures muddling and climbing and clawing through a broken world as best we can. Sometimes we are raked and scored by the brokenness of the world. Sometimes we wound others with our own jagged edges.
The world is still beautiful, people are still beautiful, but it is at best a bittersweet, ruined glory.
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Earwig
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This is just horrible, horrible news. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
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Originally posted by Eutychus:
At times like this the Ship gives me all the more reason to look forward to heaven and meeting all the people I have known on board, through a glass darkly, in an even more real way than any Shipmeet can afford.
I imagine (probably quite heretically but there we are) being welcomed some day by a particularly raucous and boisterous crowd of Shipmates both famous and less so, on the fringes of the celestial throng, along with some of the poor, oppressed and outcasts they have ministered to. With a bit of luck the Lamb that was slain will be right there in the middle of them somewhere.
Yes - whenever I think of Heaven, I think of it as a big Shipmeet. Just so sad that another one of our number got there too early.
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Drifting Star
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Originally posted by maleveque:
ebeth and I will take your prayers with us tomorrow. Please post anything you would like us to say (if we have that opportunity).
- Anne L.
Thank you, Genevieve, for sharing your time with us while you were here.
Thoughts and sympathy for you both as well.
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Erroneous Monk
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Rowen
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My prayers too
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Rowen
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My prayers too
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Evensong
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Originally posted by Earwig:
Yes - whenever I think of Heaven, I think of it as a big Shipmeet. Just so sad that another one of our number got there too early.
They'll be there to greet us with a bottle of wine.
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jbohn
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Dear God.
[ 08. May 2012, 14:13: Message edited by: jbohn ]
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Belle Ringer
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Funny that I haven't been interested in discussions on line since, it all seems sort of irrelevant.
I didn't know Genevieve, only that I was recently her Secret Santa, the thinnest of connections, and yet enough that this is a strong reminder how suddenly life can end. What's important is life. Her life. Your life. My life. What am I doing with the gift of time? Am I valuing it, valuing life?
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Enigma
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
I didn't know Genevieve, only that I was recently her Secret Santa, the thinnest of connections, and yet enough that this is a strong reminder how suddenly life can end. What's important is life. Her life. Your life. My life. What am I doing with the gift of time? Am I valuing it, valuing life?
If that is one of her legacies - to question what life is all about and what we must do with it while we are here - then I'm sure she is pleased. (I didn't know her either but you don't need to know a person to learn from them in all sorts of ways).
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Masha
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What a tragedy.
Another dreadful loss to the world.
Rest in peace and rise in glory Genevieve.
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Laura
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Just back from the service at the Cathedral of the Incarnation. Shattering and beautiful.
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maleveque
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Laura beat me to it - I just dropped her off at home & then ebeth to the Metro.
It was a truly magnificent funeral. The full MW-style report will follow very soon - a collaborative effort among the three of us.
A bagpiper piped her out of the cathedral in a most fitting manner for a dear Shipmate.
- Anne L.
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Kelly Alves
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Glad you were there, Laura and malaveque.
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Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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ebeth
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It was beautiful, profound, sad and hopeful. It was an honor to be there and to have called her friend.
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ebeth
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Originally posted by Enigma:
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
I didn't know Genevieve, only that I was recently her Secret Santa, the thinnest of connections, and yet enough that this is a strong reminder how suddenly life can end. What's important is life. Her life. Your life. My life. What am I doing with the gift of time? Am I valuing it, valuing life?
If that is one of her legacies - to question what life is all about and what we must do with it while we are here - then I'm sure she is pleased. (I didn't know her either but you don't need to know a person to learn from them in all sorts of ways).
Amen. Exactly.
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Laura
General nuisance
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Thanks, Maleveque, for the ride home!
You're so right about the music -- this was another classic example of music being used to turn us all into pure liquid. When the piper and organ started into "Resignation" ("My shepherd will supply my need") as her sister bore her ashes out past her fellow priests I was completely done for.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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Blessings on all of you.
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In Memory of Miss Molly, TimC, Gambit, KenWritez, koheleth, Leetle Masha, JLG, Genevieve, Erin, RuthW2, deuce2, Sidi and TonyCoxon, unbeliever, Morlader, Ken :tear: 20 years but who’s counting?..................
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Thank you ebeth, Laura and maleveque.
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neandergirl
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Hopeful, love-filled, shattering, beautiful all describe the service well. Watching her compadres bless her on her way was beyond moving. And the music!
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We come from love, we return to love, and all around is love.
Lord, ease our burdens, give us peace and enable us to do your work. Tree Bee
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QLib
Bad Example
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Thank you for posting that link, Laura - it's inspiring.
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CuppaT
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Tragedies are so very hard. Lord have mercy. Memory Eternal. We live and we pray. Lord have mercy.
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Nenuphar
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May the Lord have mercy on all those touched by this tragedy, and may the souls of the departed rest in peace and rise in glory.
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Jemima the 9th
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Lovely tributes in that article.
for all who love and miss her.
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Malin
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Shockingly sudden end. Lord have mercy.
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Loveheart
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Only just seen this! Speechless ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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IngoB
Sentire cum Ecclesia
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I've just seen this... I'm stunned. Will pray.
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Laura
General nuisance
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Originally posted by Gwai:
I wonder if she thought of the ship when she said, as quoted in the article, that she would get her big girl panties on. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I just noticed that the article said, "there was hardly an empty seat." There were NO empty seats, and a good number of people were standing everywhere you could safely stand. If Maleveque and ebeth hadn't saved me one, I'd have had to sit on Anne's lap.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Is there a Mystery Worship report?
Moo
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Welease Woderwick
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I only learnt about this at a Shipmeet, so sad and so senseless.
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maleveque
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Originally posted by Moo:
Is there a Mystery Worship report?
Moo
There will be soon. I've had a helluva two weeks, but I should be able to write up my notes this weekend. Sorry I've been remiss.
- Anne L.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Originally posted by maleveque:
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Originally posted by Moo:
Is there a Mystery Worship report?
Moo
There will be soon. I've had a helluva two weeks, but I should be able to write up my notes this weekend. Sorry I've been remiss.
- Anne L.
That's okay. I just wanted to make sure there would be one.
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