http://www.franciscan.org.au/2003/12/26/br-francis/ A Passion for the Gospel Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:56:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.franciscan.org.au/2003/12/26/br-francis/comment-page-1/#comment-247 lorraine legg Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:11:27 +0000 http://www.franciscan.org.au/wp/2003/12/26/br-francis/#comment-247 it is with great humility i read the eulogy delivered at the requiem mass for Br Francis. Ihad the great honour to meet him at Fiwila, Zambia in the 1970s - yes a long time ago. The mission closed and we diddn't know where the brothers had gone until we met Br Aidan at the Mission for Sea men first in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and later in Rotterdam, Holland. We have always wondered what path in life Br Stephen and Br Desmond's lives have taken. We were a young couple working in Zambia near Fiwila and depended on the mission for medical help for our two small children. The sisters at the mission kindly helped me with their wisdom on how to care for them. The mission was also our parish church and we would go there on a Saturday morning, help with mission work eithe in the hospital or with transport attend services on the Sunday, cook lunch for the brothers and leave in the afternoon before it grew dark - there were man eating lions in the valley below the mission and it was brave of the brothers to ride their bikes to the villages inthe valley. Iwould be most grateful for any news of the brothers- especially if any of them are still alive today. I will look forward to a reply as the time we spent at the mission were some of the happiest days of our lives- LORRAINE LEGG it is with great humility i read the eulogy delivered at the requiem mass for Br Francis. Ihad the great honour to meet him at Fiwila, Zambia in the 1970s – yes a long time ago. The mission closed and we diddn’t know where the brothers had gone until we met Br Aidan at the Mission for Sea men first in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and later in Rotterdam, Holland. We have always wondered what path in life Br Stephen and Br Desmond’s lives have taken. We were a young couple working in Zambia near Fiwila and depended on the mission for medical help for our two small children. The sisters at the mission kindly helped me with their wisdom on how to care for them. The mission was also our parish church and we would go there on a Saturday morning, help with mission work eithe in the hospital or with transport attend services on the Sunday, cook lunch for the brothers and leave in the afternoon before it grew dark – there were man eating lions in the valley below the mission and it was brave of the brothers to ride their bikes to the villages inthe valley.
Iwould be most grateful for any news of the brothers- especially if any of them are still alive today.
I will look forward to a reply as the time we spent at the mission were some of the happiest days of our lives- LORRAINE LEGG

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