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Song of the Body of Christ
David Haas
We come to share our story,
we come to break the bread,
we come to know our rising
from the dead.
We come as your people,
we come as your own,
united with each other,
love finds a home.
We are called to heal the broken,
to be hope for the poor;
we are called to feed
the hungry at our door.
Bread of life and cup of promise,
in this meal we all are one.
In our dying and our rising,
may your kingdom come.
You will lead and we shall follow,
you will be the breath of life;
living water,
we are thirsting for your light.
We will live and sing your praises,
"Alleluia" is our song.
May we live in love and peace
our whole life long.
Text: Irregular; David Haas. Music:
Trad. Hawaiian Song, adapt. by David Haas. Text and
music © 1989, GIA Publications, Inc. All rights
reserved. Used with permission.
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| Death of a Brother. Joseph L
Clark of Croton on Hudson, NY past away this
week. A Memorial Service was said for
him today (November 3, 2006). In a few
moments we will have some words posted about
Joe, God rest his soul.
An E-Mail from Chris Furey, November 3, 2006
Brothers,
I
attended Joe Clark's memorial service at
Holy Name in Croton this morning. I know
I promised to share the time and place
with everyone. Deacon Al offered to send
over the details once he knew them but
we never connected after that. So it
was through the obit in this morning's
paper that I learned of his service a
half hour before it began. So I
apologize for not being more proactive
in following up and sharing the
information with you guys. I felt
compelled to attend as your
representative to his family and his
memory.
Here's
what struck me today. Father Mike
handled the service, and if you haven't
had the pleasure to meet him, he's
really quite a guy. It was perhaps the
most wonderfully presented memorial
I've ever seen for a regular guy. Joe
was eulogized by his fiancé's
Rosemarie's sister. She made a point
to mention to everyone how much the
Cornerstone experience meant to Joe. I
thought you'd all want to know that.
Joe was
also eulogized by two doctors who were
co-workers of his from Westchester
Medical Center's Neurosurgery
department. We only met Joe for a few
hours at Cornerstone in his last days,
but it was moving to hear the people
closest to him tell of his humor,
selflessness as a healthcare worker
(Joe became a Nurse Practitioner after
building a sporting goods business) and
his compassion for those who knew him as
either a patient or as a friend.
If we
can judge a man by the number of people
who come out to mourn him, Joe Clark was
special and a man who will truly be
missed by many.
As for
me, I looked around the church a couple
times and realized that I didn't know
anyone there. But just before Mass, I
was tapped on the shoulder by a guy I
haven't seen in years. Mike Johnson
found his way to me thru Father Jerry
and he was one of the guys who bent over
backwards to help make sure that
Cornerstone 2000 happened (it almost
didn't). Mike had done Cornerstone at
Holy Name years before, yet he joined my
team and pitched in to help make it
succeed. Mike lost his job a few years
back and he and his wife Fiona moved
away to Savannah to start a new life. I
was bummed when I learned about his move
because I never got to say goodbye. Yet
there he was. Turns out Mike and Joe
were good friends. Go figure... Mike was
an old hand at Cornerstone, and Joe made
it a point to join us at the end of his
days. I got to say goodbye to both of
them today in different ways.
There
was a post Communion meditation
which really got me choked up. The choir
started quietly singing Song of the Body
of Christ. How appropriate and ironic.
"We come to share our story"...
They built to a beautiful crescendo and
faded out softly with the last verse
"May we live in love and peace our whole
life long".
Amen.
Chris
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