RIP Monica (Mon) Barudi RSCJ

On Sunday 5th October God very gently called our dear sister Monica (Mon) to the fullness of life. Mon, who was 95, had been a vowed RSCJ for almost seventy years.

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In 2011 Mon and two other sisters, Frances Lynch (RIP), and Mary Barrow, celebrated the Golden Jubilee of their perpetual vows, made in Rome in July 1961. In this short video, they reflect on their experience of God, and of living our mission, in different contexts and countries...

(If you are experiencing difficulty seeing the video, click here to view it)

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Shortly before her death, our Provincial was able to visit Mon, and prayed beside her, using a prayer from the Hebridean Altars, which begins: I do not think that I shall fear thee when I see thee face to face. We have many happy memories of Mon's warmth, humour and cheeriness, and pray that, as she finally sees God face to face, perpetual joy is now hers, with the God whose love she so faithfully and happily made known for so many years.

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A fuller obituary will be published in due course