J.M.J.

SHEPHERD OF HIS FLOCK

YOU CAME BY THE HUNDREDS AND KNOCKED ON HIS DOOR;

HIS GENTLE VOICE ECHOED, “COME IN” AND NO MORE.

WHAT GOD HAD ASKED OF HIM HE DID SO COMPLETE;

NOW HE’LL WAIT FOR THOSE HE LOVED IN HEAVEN TO GREET.

HE DEDICATED HIS LIFE AND HIS MINISTRY

TO EACH PENITENT SOUL WHO HAD WISHED TO BE FREE.

HE LISTENED; HE SMILED, AND HE COMFORTED

ALL THOSE THAT I TO HIM EACH DAY HAD LED.

HE RESPONDED TO GOD IN HIS PRIESTLY PROFESSION

TO HELP THOSE WHO WERE BURDENED AND IN NEED OF CONFESSION.

REMEMBER HIS KIND FACE AND HIS GENTLE SMILE

WHEN YOU CAME HERE FOR YOUR SINS TO RECONCILE.

EMBRACE ALL THE MEMORIES THAT HE SHARED WITH YOU

AND CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY AS HE WISHED YOU TO DO.

LIVE IN THE SPIRIT AS HE CHOSE TO LIVE,

AND GIVE TO EACH OTHER AS TO YOU HE DID GIVE.

 HE WAS A GOOD SHEPHERD AS HIS FLOCK HE DID TEND

GATHERING LOST SHEEP WHO ONCE GOD DID OFFEND.

HE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO HAD FAILED

GIVING COMFORT TO SOULS WHEN THEIR SINS WERE UNVEILED.

HE IS NOW IN HEAVEN AND NO LONGER IMPAIRED

INTERCEDING FOR THOSE WHO WITH HIM THEIR CROSS SHARED.

DO NOT, MY DEAR CHILDREN, YOUR TEARS FOR HIM WASTE;

INSTEAD PRAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT GOD EMBRACED.

REMEMBER THE EAGLE THAT CIRCLED THE CROSS;

IT WAS A SIGN SENT FROM HEAVEN TO COMFORT YOUR LOSS.

THE ONE WHOM YOU GRIEVE FOR IS IN HEAVEN WITH ME;

SO WEEP NOT FOR HIM BUT FOR THOSE HE’LL NOT SEE.

“THY WILL BE DONE”

6-16-2003

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(WHILE PRAYING THE CHAPLET AND ROSARY AT THE GROTTO, WE OBSERVED AN EAGLE CIRCLING ABOVE THE CROSS.)