Friday, May 24, 2013
Dear Pat and Family,
While Mary and I mourn the earthly loss of our friend - your beloved spouse and father - we take this opportunity also to celebrate our friendship and his life, well lived with loving personal relationships and high professional accomplishments aplenty.Our memories at this sad time are stirred with happy occasions of being together, filled with laughter.
When we lost Mary's brother, Father Andrew, a few years ago, we found at his bedside a simple prayer card from St. John Crysostom which I carry every day as a source of some consolation for the absence of my seminary classmate, my best friend and eventually my brother-in-law. I share the simple words of the prayer with you, in the hope it will help you, as it does me and our family:
"Those whom we love and lose
Are not where they were before.
They are now everywhere we are."
May my classmate, Law Review Colleague and good friend, Ron,
find rest in the Good Lord's embrace, and may you, his beloved family,
find comfort in sweet memories of many loving years together.
Fondly,
Joe and Mary Bellacosa (now of Ridgefield Connecticut)
