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 have to amend that to put Pope John first. (blush)
I just got home and want to thank you for the ping and the thread. I’m not a frequent poster, but I’m on FR several times a day and always followed Tony’s threads. I am so sad at Tony’s passing and send my sympathies to Jill and their children and of course all the Snowflakes. We all feel such a loss.
“We don’t know much, but we know this:
no matter where we are, no matter what we do, no matter how bleak or frightening our prospects, each and every one of us each and every day, lies in the same safe and impregnable place in the hollow of God’s hand.”
Tony Snow
Definitely a keeper! Amen.
You are welcome, Lillee!
Thank you for posting your kind thoughts.
(:
(((((((((rdb3))))))))
Right back at ya! Sure do miss those threads!!
It looks like a webcam...kind of jerky motion like one. Maybe, they’ll have a way.
Tony Snow, God’s Press Secretary..
I like it!
Tony was on loan from God. I’m just sorry He wanted him back so soon.
Fox said 2 of Tony’s kids were going to speak and the daughter sing.
Jill didn’t want the funeral televised. I wish I could see it, but it’s her right.
They are very brave. I don’t think I’d get 3 words out without
losing it!
We’ll have to wait for a report from Trueblackman. So glad he was there to represent us.
They kept their family life private, and I do respect that.
I think it would have just hurt too badly to be there and
hear all the lovely things being said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381784,00.html
A somber Bush had a special message for Snow’s three children. The president said he often called Snow on the weekend seeking his advice, and would find that he was helping his kids with homework or cheering them on the soccer field.
“He loved you a lot,” Bush told the three children. “I hope you know we loved him a lot, too.”
Bush was accompanied by some familiar faces from earlier in his presidency, including former top adviser Karl Rove and one-time chief of staff Andrew Card.
“He knew the job of a reporter was vigorous. He understood the profession and always treated it with respect,” said Bush, who traveled to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to pay respects to his former lead spokesman.
His was a life that was “far too brief,” the president said of Snow.
Will be at that service in spirit!
Reality really does suck sometimes! Just miss those wonderful times on the Tony threads! Snowflakes are scattered, and it’s good to run across their posts occasionally on other threads, but it’s hard not to miss the old days (boy, guess I am getting old!!). Will miss Tony’s perspective......helped me to see things clearly even if I disagreed. I remember the thrill it was the first time he answered a post. Those were good times. I still feel such a closeness with my fellow Snowflakes!!! How about a Snowflake graphic for old times sake!! ;>)
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