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Ryan Soriano
October 12, 2025
Rest in peace Fr.Tim. It´s your 8 years anniversary in heaven
Tere Ertola Charney
December 27, 2024
Father Kidney was a deacon at my church, St Matthias in Redwood City in the late 1960´s. When I was to be married at Stanford University Memorial Church in 1986, Father Kidney was assigned to Mark, my husband and I in an interfaith service with Rabbi Charles Familant. Father Kidney trusted me as a Catholic and was very thoughtful to us. I wanted to reach out to him and our rabbi to let them know we will be celebrating our 39th wedding anniversary next June. I am sad to hear that he passed away. He was a very conscientious human being.
Micca
January 21, 2021
Thank you so much Father Tim for your golden heart, your kindness and amazing words of advices. You will always be remembered. I miss you ,Love you.
joefil saldivar
July 7, 2019
my dear tim you will stay always in my heart and i love you
Micca Cabanas
November 5, 2018
Fr. Tim thank you so much for your kindness,big heart , great advice and being there always for me . I will miss you and i love you .
Bruno & Christi Martinez
October 20, 2018
Father Tim is very powerful force in my life. I often feel alone because I have a unique intellect and some see it many negative things from know it all to too intellectual. The first time I set up a meeting with Father Tim, he immediately saw me for what I was. Once he did, he put me to use. He would constantly test my limits, which I very much enjoyed. We would have long conversations about Theology, Liturgy (he made me his de facto Liturgist), Morality. He was a font of knowledge and so very focused, I was always in awe in him. He was very literally brilliant. He shared that with me. He made use of the Blessings, Gifts and Graces given to me.
He was misunderstood my some. He had issues with large crowds, they unnerved him. So he was very to the point. Some saw this as abrupt, which was not his intent, just his anxiety. I wish people who thought he was abrupt spent time breaking bread and speaking with him in a more interment setting. It is truly their loss.
I feel extraordinarily Blessed to have had Father Tim in my life, I know my wife Christi feels the same way. She is a no nonsense businesswoman as well. She definitely gets results as did Father Tim, I know he admired that about her.
I enjoyed our lunches where we would have intellectual sparing contests. From the outside it must have looked like we hated each other. Yet as soon as we were done, he would smile and laugh, as would I.
One thing no one could deny was his powerful Homilies. They challenged the Assembly to actually think about how the Gospel would come to life in their everyday life, and lived out by them. I know for a fact that he affected quite a few people to become better versions of themselves.
His funniest in Mass moment was far and away at the completion of the entrance procession, but before the Collect, Father Tim reminded everyone to turn off their phone, unless they were expecting a call from God. At that very moment, the cell phone in his pocket rang. No, it was not God. However, he rolled with it, was self deprecating and the whole Assembly laughed with him.
I pray that the Reverend Doctor Timothy James Kidney, is met at the Gates of the Lord God's Heavenly Kingdom, with warm welcome and embrace from Saint Peter and Jesus Christ. I offer this prayer in the most Precious Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Christi and I will always love you and hold you close to hearts, our minds and our Souls. Thank you Father Tim for all that you achieved, served, lived, loved and given while you were with us.
Catherine See
October 18, 2018
Rest in peace Fr. Kidney. You truly lived your life always in the service of Christ. Truly a doer of the word.
Catherine See
Teresa Altman
October 18, 2018
Mentor, Pastor, Father, friend, leader, confessor, spiritual director, teacher, welcomer, Fr. Tim was all this and more to me. He profoundly impacted my life and I will never forget him in my praise and prayers before God. Because of his blunt, honest, no nonsense ministry style, which was exactly what I needed, when I needed it most, I am rejoined to holy Church and have the hope of eternal life. I look forward to seeing him again. With deepest respect and affection from Teresa Altman, St. Joseph's Mtn View, CA.
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