Our debt to Agnes Rees

Yesterday was an emotional day.  We said goodbye to Agnes Rees at her funeral in Northampton.  We welcomed Agnes into our tiny new Northampton OCDS group last year and she was such a blessing to us.  We had started out holding our meetings in a shop, and we were looking to find a better venue, when she turned up and told us that the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in the adjacent village of Great Billing had just opened a new parish room.  She was very active in that parish and made all the arrangements for us to be able to transfer our meetings there, and it turned out to be perfect.  And then she fell ill with cancer.  We didn’t even have the time to get to know her before she passed over to be with the Lord.  She wasn’t even able to attend enough meetings to be taken into formation as she had been hoping. But we in Northampton OCDS will always be grateful that she was spared for long enough to give us a place to meet.  And we found out that she had devoted much of her life to working in counselling and psychotherapy and helping others.  Thank you Agnes, and may your soul rest in peace.

Intercessions:

Brian Davis – cancer

Marie, Bernard (and wife Angela) - cancer

Agnes Rees RIP.

Siena, Elara – sick children

Wojtek – massive heart attack leaving him incapacitated

David - housebound

Sophia – blind infant