Joan☀️🙏🏻

‘Real goodness is always simple. Simplicity is so attractive and so profitable, that it is strange that so few people are really simple’. (Leo Tolstoy)

Just a few nights ago, our lovely Joan passed away from this world to her eternal reward. There are no available words to remotely express our beautiful friendship and so I will not attempt to do so. Suffice it to say I miss her greatly and probably a little piece of my heart will go on missing her until we meet once again on that Heavenly shore by God’s glorious Grace.

In her final hours I ask if she might drop by one night in my dreams just to let me know anything of our Heavenly homeland. ‘Yes, perhaps I will’, she replies, smiling sweetly.

This perfect poem I chose for her Funeral Holy Mass reflection, speaks eloquently of our lovely Joan!!

Our St. Anne’s Holy Rosary group have now, three saints in Heaven interceding for us. Marina, Bridie and Joan. Goodness, truth and beauty in vivid display for all the world to see, all through their long lives.

                                                                       Beloved Bridie❤️

                                                                      Majestic Marina❤️

‘I urge you to remain steadfast in faith, so that at last we will all reach Heaven and there rejoice together’. (St. Andrew Kim Taegon)

Dear Pope Francis rip. Just three days after our dear Joan. May the Lord have mercy on their gentle souls. Amen.