Comments on: Anne Marie McGowan Murphy, Rest In Peace http://blog.archny.org/index.php/anne-marie-mcgowan-murphy-rest-in-peace/ Sun, 19 May 2013 11:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Danusha Goska http://blog.archny.org/index.php/anne-marie-mcgowan-murphy-rest-in-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-103191 Danusha Goska Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:48:21 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=3542#comment-103191 Dear Cardinal Timothy Dolan, In your eulogy for Anne Marie Murphy, you said, "Because I know Jesus, I feel as if I know Ann Marie McGowan Murphy quite well! Like Jesus, Annie was an excellent teacher; Like Him, she had a favored place in her big, tender heart for children, especially those with struggles; Like Jesus, Annie laid down her life for her friends; Like Him, she has brought together a community, a nation, a world, now awed by her own life and death; Like Jesus, Annie’s life and death brings light, truth, goodness, and love, to a world often shrouded in darkness, evil, selfishness, and death." I was very moved when I read your words, Cardinal Dolan. I cried and I prayed. I thought about your eulogy for an hour after reading it the first time. It was only after an hour of thought that I realized. I am a Catholic woman. The church tells me that I, and other women like me, can't be priests because we women are too unlike Jesus to be priests. Your eulogy demonstrated why that reasoning is incorrect. Thank you. Dear Cardinal Timothy Dolan, In your eulogy for Anne Marie Murphy, you said, “Because I know Jesus, I feel as if I know Ann Marie McGowan Murphy quite well! Like Jesus, Annie was an excellent teacher; Like Him, she had a favored place in her big, tender heart for children, especially those with struggles; Like Jesus, Annie laid down her life for her friends; Like Him, she has brought together a community, a nation, a world, now awed by her own life and death; Like Jesus, Annie’s life and death brings light, truth, goodness, and love, to a world often shrouded in darkness, evil, selfishness, and death.”
I was very moved when I read your words, Cardinal Dolan. I cried and I prayed.
I thought about your eulogy for an hour after reading it the first time.
It was only after an hour of thought that I realized. I am a Catholic woman. The church tells me that I, and other women like me, can’t be priests because we women are too unlike Jesus to be priests.
Your eulogy demonstrated why that reasoning is incorrect.
Thank you.

]]> By: Kathryn Benoay http://blog.archny.org/index.php/anne-marie-mcgowan-murphy-rest-in-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-102706 Kathryn Benoay Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:03:26 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=3542#comment-102706 Thank you, Cardinal Dolan. That was beautiful and inspired. Thank you, Cardinal Dolan. That was beautiful and inspired.

]]> By: Ellen Marie http://blog.archny.org/index.php/anne-marie-mcgowan-murphy-rest-in-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-102232 Ellen Marie Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:36:27 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=3542#comment-102232 Simply; Thank you, thank you and thank God for Annie. May she rest in peace, with the Love of Christ. Amen Simply; Thank you, thank you and thank God for Annie.

May she rest in peace, with the Love of Christ. Amen

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