I know many of your have been connected to people. People you love, people you look up to, people who look up to you. You all know my connected to Fr. Jerry of my home parish, as I sat in mass this morning I realized its been close to a year that St. John Vianney lost our founding father. We've made it a year, each individually and as a parish we have made it a year.
It was a bumpy year for me, every once in awhile, during mass I would tear up thinking that this was not fair. I did not attend mass all summer, I attended the Sunday after Fr. passed and one time in July. That one time in July I was watching Fr. Brad and all I could think of was that Fr. Jerry should be standing right there. That's his job, and he's not here.
Its been along time since I have had a rough morning in mass. This morning watching 3 of my 2nd graders make their 1st Communion I was thinking about Father Jerry. He loved the celebration of young people, as he would say. That's when it dawned on me its been close to a year.
This is the man that I knew as a figure of my faith. Life will go on, and I know he is with me each step of the way. May 25th will be one year that God choose to place Father Jerry with him in a less painful environment. After 2 battles of cancer in his legs, we lost the only person I ever knew to represent my Catholic Faith.
Today I am looking towards where I have grown with the death of Father Jerry. St. Luke's has made me a bigger person, looking for the good in what God has created.
It's almost been a year, a year of MCREST, Parish Picnic, Giving Trees, decorating the Christmas Trees, and so much more that he has not been there physically but faithfully he has been with us each step of the way.
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I promise to try to get some more posts going more frequently. I have lots I wanna blog about to remember. Til Later KAH
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