Regis College - Mount Regis Yearbook (Weston, MA)

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All of us, each in our special ways, were the recipients of the love that she gave so readily. Her sensite, caring nature made her a very special part of our lives. We thank God on this day for the gifts that came to each of us through Chris’ willingness to be a ‘truly giving person.’ It ' s the soul afraid of dying . . . that Never learns to live. Chris would not have been afraid of dying. She would have shared all of the uneasiness that each of us would experience when we consider in our imagination the moment of our own death. Chris would have shared the anxiety that each of us would feel at the prospect of entering into the ‘unknown reality’ of death, but from knowing Chris, I believe with confi- dence that she would not have feared death because she was a person of firm faith. She believed strongly in the love of God and His promises to her. She would have faced death with the firm conviction that this moment of death was not only the ending of this life, but more importantly the beginning of a new and better life with God. Our hearts are heavy with sorrow and pain this morning. We experience the deep hurt of separation from someone we have loved and whose place will never be filled by another. Our faith offers us consolation and hope, but it cannot take away the hurt. We hurt deeply because we have loved deeply. It seems that the darkness of this moment is impenetrable and the struggle ahead too much to bear. Once again, the lyrics of THE ROSE seem to speak to our experience. When the night has been too lonely. And the road has been too long. And you think that love is only For the lucky and the strong. Just remember in the winter Far beneath the bitter snows Lies the seed that with the sun’s love In the Spring becomes the Rose. Funeral Homily by Rev. William T. Schmidt

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