Bro Mura sj, my community member and a senior Jesuit asked me, “Did you get the news?” “What news?” I asked, with a witty smile as I do often with him.
“Gvidas went to the house of our Lord” he replied. “We will remember him in our prayer” he continued and walked towards the chapel.
It would not unfair for my part if I do not say it was expected. (I wrote about him already in my blog, a few weeks back:http://riponspeaks.blogspot.it/2012/03/we-are-friends-in-lord.html ).We all knew his days are numbered, but we did not know when it would come.
Gvidas, a young scholastic of my community was diagnosed with cancer last year. Last summer he went to the USA for his doctoral research. It was there that his illness was discovered. Before summer we all wished each other and hoped to meet again after summer. But who would have guessed that it was our last meeting with Gvidas.
Gvidas died in the presence of his mother. It must have been/is a terrible time for his mother. This reminds me the sorrows of our dear Mother. Our Mother silently bore the sufferings of her dear Son.
Gvidas your memories will always remain with us!