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#298813 - 09/03/08 11:46 AM Father Thomas dies peacefully in Alaska..
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Registered: 04/01/04
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Dear friends, some of you may recall that earlier this summer I posted a prayer request for Fr. Thomas, an Orthodox priest, who also happens to be the other grand father of our grand children who has had stage four lung and liver cancer and a few months to live.

Fr. Thomas (who we always called "Bill" died peacefully at his home in Alaska yesterday.) This summer his children and their children were all able to come North (only one still lives in Alaska) to visit him and say their good byes.

Please pray for his wife, Matuska Lynn, and family..

Eternal memory..for God's servant, Fr. Thomas.

(Dyak..I told my son-in-law to tell him when he visited him last month that you remembered him and were praying for him)

Thank you all. God bless you too!

In Christ,

porter (Mary Jo)

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#298814 - 09/03/08 11:48 AM Re: Father Thomas dies peacefully in Alaska.. [Re: Porter]
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May he rest in peace!

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#298815 - 09/03/08 11:51 AM Re: Father Thomas dies peacefully in Alaska.. [Re: Amadeus]
Alice Moderator Offline
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Prayers that our merciful God will forgive all the sins of His faithful servant, the Priest, Father Thomas...

May his memory be eternal...

May our blessed Lady Theotokos give consolation to his loving wife, children and grandchildren at this sad time for them. Amen.

In Christ, our Hope,
Alice

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#298820 - 09/03/08 12:40 PM Re: Father Thomas dies peacefully in Alaska.. [Re: Alice]
DewiMelkite Online   content
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my prayers with you all

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#298828 - 09/03/08 01:57 PM Re: Father Thomas dies peacefully in Alaska.. [Re: DewiMelkite]
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Eternal Memory

May the family of the Priest Thomas receive comfort knowing that he has served God , and at last is free from earthly pain and suffering

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#298865 - 09/04/08 12:29 AM Re: Father Thomas dies peacefully in Alaska.. [Re: Our Lady's slave]
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Prayers...

james

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#298870 - 09/04/08 02:13 AM Re: Father Thomas dies peacefully in Alaska.. [Re: Jakub.]
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Eternal be his memory.

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#298878 - 09/04/08 10:07 AM Re: Father Thomas dies peacefully in Alaska.. [Re: Elizabeth Maria]
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Memory Eternal and prayers for your family.

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#298924 - 09/04/08 07:55 PM Re: Father Thomas dies peacefully in Alaska.. [Re: Orthodox Pyrohy]
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Eternal memory, and prayers for his family.

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#300467 - 09/30/08 09:32 PM Re: Father Thomas dies peacefully in Alaska.. [Re: byzanTN]
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Father Tom's busy life and all the efforts that he devoted to Right to Life have undoubtedly earned him his heavenly reward.

Memory eternal to God's beloved servant, the Priest Thomas, and may Matushka Lynn and all his family and friends - including our dear sister Mary Jo - be comforted in the sure belief that Father serves now at Heaven's Holy Table.
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"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."

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#300697 - 10/03/08 08:37 AM Re: Father Thomas dies peacefully in Alaska.. [Re: Irish Melkite]
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Thanks to all who have prayed. I will share that with Fr. Tom's wife, who is the other grandmother of our grandchildren and also my friend, as well as with his children.

God bless.

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#300786 - 10/05/08 04:46 PM Re: Father Thomas dies peacefully in Alaska.. [Re: Porter]
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May his memory be eternal.

In Christ,
Alice

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