Rev. Robert E. Manning

Uncle Robby, I am missing you today as I do every day.I have your picture on my desk and I am gazing at it as I write this. I can't believe it is a year that we have lived without your presence. But I know we live with your extraordinary, loving,robust,and gentle spirit every day, in our thoughts, hearts and lives. I love you Uncle Robby, full measure and pressed down as you always said. No one will ever fill your place.

I go on with life as you wanted me to do but there is a big gap in my life without you. I love you and miss you Dee

It's been almost two weeks since your passing...we miss you so much it's indescribable...you were an amazing uncle, friend, teacher...I hope I can instill in my children the faith you have instilled in me...like you told me when we last spoke "I will be watching and praying for you all from God's heavenly kingdom"..I know you are in a better place...we love you so much and will miss you always...Lisa, Ryan, Colin and your "namesake" Brendan Robert

To my uncle Bob,
It pains me beyond words to have not been able to say goodbye. I have thought about you and what you've shown not only myself but my family everyday. Ill never forget our masses in Hummarock.. our meetings in Cambridge.. and your unconditional love for others. It is what you've done for my father and I though which is what I'm most thankful for. You will live inside my heart forever.

CJ Manning

My beautiful uncle was my heart! He made everything good in my life! He made living and believing in God a most joyous experience! He has always been a parent to me, my second dad! He loved me fiercely and being loved by him was a earthly experience of being loved by God. Whenever we parted from eachother he would always say to me,"My darling I love you full measure, pressed down, overflowing!" My beautiful beloved Unlce Robby I love you this way forever and ever and always! He gave us all...

i was blessed with the best brother a man could have ray manning

To Father Manning's family and the Jesuit community:

I was deeply saddened to learn of Father Bob Manning's death. I was so fortunate to know him when he was Chaplain at Holy Cross in the early 1970's. His advice, counsel and example have stayed with me in the nearly 35 years since I left that campus, a campus he enlivened with his presence and with the passion of his convictions. A brilliant man with tremendous knowledge and a desire to learn even more, he was also an engaging man who...

Fr. Manning was a God-given second father to me, as a former Jesuit seminarian from a foreign country. In grateful remembrance for "Bob", my whole family (wife and our four chilfren) has offered prayers of thanksgiving for this holy man and his beloved ones (family and Jesuit companions).

Father Robert Manning, what can I say that anyone who knew him wouldn’t already understand.
He wasn’t much on formalities, “ Please call me Bob” . That was the first day I was introduced to him eight years ago. Little did I know I had just met the most compassionate , caring, and loving person I have ever had the privilege to know. Soon to become a true FRIEND .
He was strong in his beliefs but willing to listen to other sides.
He would go out of his way to ask “ How are you doing...