[Magdalen] praying for Capers...

[Jay Weigel]

Actually I wasn't talking about Christy Brothers, with whom I never had any
contact, but Capers, who I never met IRL but whose wisdom, humor, and
humanity I valued very much in all the incarnations of this list.

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 22/05/2015 02:54, Jay Weigel wrote of Mother Christy Brothers:
>
>> That was the purpose her ordination served. She kept the light on for
>> us...a lot of us. Those in the process, or maybe those of us who were in
>> some other process, or who might have just been discouraged. I don't think
>> she even knew she did it.
>>
>
> and all the better because she did not realise and so did not draw
> vainglory from it, unlike some of those other priests referred to on the
> cringe-worthy thread.  From my brief lunchtime meeting with Capers a few
> months ago I believe she had the same skill at seeing authenticity, and not
> valuing the fake.
>
> Roger
>