In your charity, please remember Louie Shagoury, a parishioner of Annunciation Melkite Cathedral who has reposed in the Lord at age 76. Louie was born with cerebral palsy that caused a mild intellectual disability and physical issues, all of which he dealt with successfully throughout his life, marrying, raising 3 lovely daughters, and working a full-time job until retirement. He was diagnosed with widespread cancer and died within weeks.
Louie's last post on FB read "To my friend at the Red Cross I have cancer ... So sorry for let you down." A few days after his death, Louie's family received a letter from the local Red Cross chapter. It explained that, for 27 years, since 1994, Louie had annually donated the maximum allowable amount of blood products (whole blood, plasma, and platelets) that one can give in a single year. No one - not his ex, daughters, sister, friends - knew. .
O God of all spiritual and corporeal beings, You Who trampled death, broke the power of Satan and granted life to the whole world, now, O Lord, grant rest to the soul of Your departed servant, Louie, in a place of light, freshness, and peace, where there is neither pain, nor sorrow, nor mourning, but only life everlasting.
As You are a gracious God and the Lover of mankind, forgive him every transgression committed by him in word, thought, or deed, since there is no man alive who has not sinned, for You alone are without sin and You are the Resurrection and the Life, O Christ our God, and we render glory to You, together with Your Eternal Father, and Your most Holy, gracious, and life-giving Spirit, now and always and forever.
May his memory be eternal and may his loved ones be comforted in the prayerful expectation of being reunited with him in Heaven.