God alone is sufficient ☀️🙏🏻

‘O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting’. (Hosea 13:14)

Bridie passed away peacefully at 4AM this morning.

 Sitting by her bedside last night, praying Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Holy Rosary, stroking her beautiful hair, talking to her, will remain forever in my heart.

Ninety years of age, not a line on her beautiful face, white hair stunning as always. I doubt she ever realised her real beauty or gave it a second thought.

Bridie had no idea either how much she impacted the lives of countless others during the course of her long hard life. Her determination in the face of myriad struggles. Her acceptance and endurance. Her saintliness.

She knows now!

‘It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit’. (Harry S Truman)

So glad to have recording on my phone of Bridie calling out St. Teresa of Avila’s prayer in our Holy Rosary one time. That last line; ‘God alone is sufficient’, comforted many, coming from Bridie who was ‘living proof’. She owned nothing but God! 

For the longest time, Bridie lived in her own world, sight and hearing gone. Yet, with just the slightest prompt, she would pray it aloud at the end of Holy Rosary. ‘Bridie’s prayer’ will go on being prayed while our Holy Rosary continues.

I prayed it aloud last night, one last time. Then, miraculously, she opened her eyes and whispered; 

‘Good bye’. Precious parting gift from my forever friend, dear sweet Bridie.

‘A tree is known by its fruit; a person by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; she who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and she who plants kindness gathers love’. (St. Basil the great)

St. John Vianney (Cure D’Ars) would oftentimes tell his parishioners that the only way to die well is to live well. Having witnessed with my own two eyes, dear Bridie’s peaceful passing, I want with all my heart to live well and when my time comes, die well, in the Gladsome light of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen