tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21613239.post4558661920175839447..comments2024-01-21T08:12:21.016-05:00Comments on Saint Ronan Street Diary: Love is Stronger than DeathAndrew McGowanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01304601214734931518noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21613239.post-45067231299945668392012-05-06T18:22:32.623-04:002012-05-06T18:22:32.623-04:00Mary-Marguerite was the interim assistant minister...Mary-Marguerite was the interim assistant minister at St. Stephen's, Pittsfield, MA (USA) soon after I left that parish in 2000.<br /><br />I met her in (about) 2001 when I traveled back to Pittsfield for the funeral service of the parish Deacon, the Revd. Jack Fickling.<br /><br />Oddly enough I mostly remember her wild earrings - a symbol of her "wild goose" spirit.J. Michael Poveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17835759800684119909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21613239.post-36919508382899787272012-05-06T16:09:04.976-04:002012-05-06T16:09:04.976-04:00Thank you, dear friend. I hit the limits of my com...Thank you, dear friend. I hit the limits of my compassion daily, and have no idea how to love--in any meaningful way--the sort of person who in a fit of anger fueled by brokenness shot my friend and Brenda. When I told Siobhan about this last night she, too, was jarred, and we remember Mary Marguerite as a bright, funny, deeply compassionate light from our fraught days at St. John's.<br />HowJackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02944293203681922985noreply@blogger.com