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 also like Beckel’s story about being so hung over that Tony had to write Bob’s talking points, even the criticism towards conservatives, for the show in the early days. I’m glad Beckel is sober now.
Prayers for your health to improve!
Please take care of you! ((((hugs))))
Bye LUV! See you soon.
(((LUVW)))
((((((RobinWWJD)))))))
My hopes and prayers are with you. My sister and brother are both cancer survivors so I know that prayers do come true.
I loved that Beckel story! Bob said that Tony even wrote the jokes for him. Whatever else I may’ve thought of Bob Beckel, his words of love and rememberance for his friend, Tony Snow, were among the most sincere I heard. It’s made me think much better of Beckel, and I bet Tony would like that.
No video cameras at Jill’s request because of the children. Tony still influencing, isn’t he?
(((RobinWWJD))
I am crying with you. My boss looked at me kind of funny, he knows I am upset about Tony, even if he doesn’t understand why. You are most definitely a snowflake!! Only fellow snowflakes “get” why we are all so upset about losing someone we technically never met.
He was a friend though, as dear as any of my friends.
God Bless you Robin...I will pray for your good health.
It is huge...beautiful as weel. I used to be a tour guide there and IIRC it’s the largest Catholic Church in the country and the seventh largest in the world.
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“.....but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face.”
And that is really the point. How an individual CHOOSES (and it is a CHOICE, an act of the free will that God has given us), a choice about where we place our focus. If your eyes are focused above, on the ‘all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ’ part of what God has promised us, you try, with God’s help, to live your life as an acknowledgment of this wonderful promise. We can do this because of what Christ was willing to do FOR us.
Tony did the above, as well as any human being still dealing with the ‘flesh’, is able to do. He was a point of light, something positive to look to, an example of how to TRY to go about living out a life while still carrying about an earthly ‘tent’. The tent/flesh is the temporary part of our existence. Tony has graduated on to the next phase. The ‘eternal’ part of the promises to those who are ‘in Christ’.
I, almost, envy him. But, I still have a long way to go to achieve the attitude that seemed to come so easily from him. So I keep plugging away, down here.
I don’t post too often. I get too earnest. I take my faith seriously, and it always seems to creep into my posts, even when I am trying to keep them secular. I know that is not always welcome to some readers, so I am cautious.
But Tony, well, his faith was the biggest part of who he was. That’s the way it should be, I think. What you ‘believe’ SHOULD become what you ‘are’. I am very wary of public, elected official types, who say they ‘believe’, but then don’t translate that belief into their public behavior, into how they do their jobs as legislators, or whatever. Tony, well, he always seemed to LIVE his belief. That attracted me, and many of us, like a magnet.
A light has gone out of this world, but he still exists, and is still ‘our Tony Snow’.
pattyjo
(((((LUV W)))))
Know what you mean! Listened on the Web since Tony was not on out here in San Francisco.......Campaigned till the day he left the show to have one of our local stations pick him up. It was on early out here, but worth getting up for! Day’s when I couldn’t pick it up I still followed the thread just to be with everyone! I MISS it too!!
LOL! Got it out yesterday! Whooppee!! ;>)
Anyone seen sofaman lately?
LUV W, I will ping you when the first snowflake falls (altho we don’t get much snow here.
FNC = HUST SAID REMBERANCES OF THE FUNERAL COMING UP FROM MIKE EMANUEL — ON NOW
(((((retrokitten)))))
I heard an interview of Tony from last year by Laura Ingraham, as I was driving into work this morning.
If they only had windshield wipers for eyes... sigh...
(((all who mourn)))
Christian
pattyjo
You SHOULD post more often! That was beautiful and very well said! And I needed to see your words more than you know. Thank you so much!
I am clipping your post and keeping it in a special place as a reminder to me of how I want to live from now on. What a beautiful tribute to the example of Tony’s life.
I knew I shouldn’t have allowed myself to click on any CNN links. Yours was for a camera on the outside of the Basilica. I hit the link a bit late and was rudely faced with Algore whining about having a carbon-free power source in 10 years. I didn’t stick around long enough for any more. I can only take so much of that loon.
I am so happy to hear what a great send off Tony got. I am so glad to hear that they read from the Blessings of Cancer article that Tony wrote.
I’m on my 2 day chemo pump and am getting ready to go get it pulled as I am reading this. Tony had the same thing as Colon Cancer treatment require us to carry around the pump for 46 hours. Tony did much of his press secretary work for Bush with the chemo pump in a fanny pack running chemo into his chest. We are given an under the skin access port which I always called our fraternity pins for those of us in the chemo club. I heard him talk about his fanny pack and chest port access on Hanity’s show. What a trooper he was. I’m and electrical engineer and ride a desk most of the day, and I find it hard on chemo days to do much of anything, but Tony was able to do that high pressure job with the chemo rolling. God Bless him.
Tony was man after God’s own heart and his words and articles lifted many of us in the “chemo club” up and inspired us (me especially) to live life to its fullest, even in what seems to be adverse circumstances. Isn’t it odd, how much influence and love his faithful spirit..combined with his fight of the illness has been used for the good. Much like the suffering of our Lord was used for good. Tony entitled his article that I loved “The Blessing of Cancer”, and surely the blessings he spoke of were from Tony to us.
God Bless the Snow Family!
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