Posted on 07/17/2008 4:50:17 AM PDT by saveliberty
Thursday, 17 July 2008
10:00 am - Funeral Mass - Great Upper Church
Open to the Public
Doors open at 8:00 a.m.
(Will Need to Pass through Security Checkpoint Magnetometers)
The Most Reverend Donald W. Wuerl
Archbishop of Washington
Presider
Reverend David O’Connell, CM
President of The Catholic University of America
Celebrant & Homilist
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
400 Michigan Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20017
Metro: Red Line – Brookland/CUA
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to:
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
I love that they used this very funny sequence of pictures in their serious and lovely article.
You are doing fine, save. We are allowed to mourn his loss. Then we'll pick ourselves up and go on and do our best to carry on those wonderful lessons we learned from his remarkable life and outlook.
I’m not able to attend the funeral today. Trueblackman is there. He told me three Code Phelps freaks are across the street.
Perhaps this is the time to again post one of tony's last messages to us.
"One consoles as one can; with love and steadfastness. The purpose of consolation is not to proclaim judgment; that’s someone else’s job. In times of grief, one gives one’s heart to another, in ways that will provide solace rather than pain — to embrace, them, help them and support them. Paul notes that one needs to be all things to all people in practicing one’s faith. And in times of grief, one must be a selfless friend."
Has anybody suggested maybe making one tribute thread for the Snowkids? Kind of like an e-scrapbook with all the best & most moving remembrances of freepers & public figures so they can open it up whenever they need a (((hug)))) & remember just what a wonderful treasure their Dad was to so many people?
I am sorry you can’t be there, kristinn. Will Trueblackman give us a report? We would all love to hear about it!
Thanks for all your help.
It’s been a bad week and I have not been free to go online.
I’ll be out of the country next week, as well and I am not sure I’ll be able to get on as much.
Hugs.
Hopefully the Secret Service will keep them away.
Another melting Snowflake reporting in—I just can’t believe why we’re all here. I’m crying and I haven’t even read any of the threads yet!
Thank you for starting this thread, saveliberty. We have to remember that this is a Celebration of the Life of Tony Snow, dearly loved by so many of us.
trueblack man told me in a post that they will have video camera covering them, in case there is any questions about the conduct of code pink or the westboro nuts.
From the final paragraph:
A man at peace with facing death as a final friend,Tony has finished the race. May "His Soul and the souls of all the faithful departed through the Mercy of God Rest in Peace”.
I’m sure he will.
leilani, that is a fantastic idea!
[Did I just hear you volunteer? ;) ]
Good morning, sl. Sad day for us.
I know what you mean about having fun on threads. The Levin thread is most like our SNOWFlake thread as far as we are a bunch of friends who like to gather there. Of course we love Mark, and he posts from time to time... not nearly as often as Tony did, but when he does we go wild. Mark was also a friend of Tony’s.
You’re welcome, dinasour.
I will be offline much of the latter part of next week also.
(((hugs)))
sl
Thank you, GoldwaterChick!
(((hugs)))
What a ping list, rdb3! Made me smile, and I needed that! All I could think of was Holy Smoke!
Contributions for Tony's children's education can be sent to:
Center for Health Transformation
Attn: Tony Snow Family Trust
1425 K Street, NW
Suite 450
Washington, DC 20005
I understand they'll have an online setup for donations later in the week.
Kevin will represent us well. And one thing is certain, you would be there if you could. God bless you both.
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