I just heard from a cousin in Ireland of the repose of his Mom, my elderly cousin, Nellie, who's been ill for the last several years. Please remember her in your prayers.
May Nellie's memory be eternal and may her beloved, David, her children - Oliver, Gerald, and Carmel, and grandchildren, be comforted by the thought of being reunited with her in the hereafter.
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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."