May God bless you and your...
No words of mine can mean much now. Your loss is far too great and much too close. But I do want to make known my deepest sympathy to you Gene and Connie, to you Michael and James. In the praying I am doing you are with me, and the Lord is with you...especially now. Mass for Your mother today on the campus of Providence College, and again, tomorrow.
Thomas Merton, the profound and gifted Trappist monk, wrote of death: "It's where the hills end...and the stars begin." Therese' "hills" are...
John J. Peterson, O,P,
July 12, 2006 | Providence, RI


