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Topic: Cardinal Gibbons athletes
offer heartfelt gift |
Cardinal Gibbons athletes
offer heartfelt gift
News and Observer [Raleigh,NC], by Tim Stevens
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Posted By:Fiesta del sol, 12/25/2012 7:05:11 AM
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| Luke Raymond cannot wrap up one of his most heartfelt gifts this Christmas. His offering is much too personal. Raymond and about 30 of his classmates at Cardinal Gibbons High offer a different kind of gift – support for those grieving the loss of loved ones. As members of the school’s Pallbearers Society, the group assembles several times each year to help carry the coffins of people they have never met.They generally know almost nothing about the deceased. Gibbons is a nonboarding parochial school, but pallbearers are available to any family in the community,
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Comments:
Well folks, maybe all is not lost for our country...
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
dittohead, 12/25/2012 8:32:52 AM (No. 9082865)
What a touching story - unusual from the N&O!!! Have been in this area for 25 years and this is the first I have heard of this service. Also, I can see how this service is needed and how much it is appreciated. God Bless these young men!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Scrubber, 12/25/2012 9:42:26 AM (No. 9082926)
Just the other day, my local newspaper published a lengthy article about the dozens of Muslim highschools in NJ who have performed similar selfless services.
s/off
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Kane Toad, 12/25/2012 9:48:50 AM (No. 9082932)
blessings to the parents who raised these beautiful children.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
TheMom, 12/25/2012 10:01:16 AM (No. 9082942)
God bless each and every one of them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jlw509, 12/25/2012 3:55:57 PM (No. 9083282)
This is a noble and meaningful service. God bless these kids.
When my mother died, we were newcomers in the parish, didn´t know anybody, and were about 1,000 miles from Mom´s hometown: really didn´t expect anybody at the funeral. I just humbly mentioned to the pastor that Mom would´ve appreciated something like a "Kyrie": it was the tradition of her earlier years.
I was so grateful when the choir came and did the main parts of the Mass in Latin, and the associate pastor sang "Panis Angelicus." Some young guys from the State University Catholic students group joined the ushers in carrying the coffin.
Just inexpressibly beautiful and consoling. Or in the words of the Mass: right and just.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
retiree, 12/25/2012 4:10:50 PM (No. 9083290)
When my brother died in the south and was brought back north for burial, (alongside his wife), the kids had to pay paulbearers. Sad but true. There was no family or friends left around there to help.
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