RIP Mother Jane Mary Firestone RSM

[Thijs]

Mother Jane Mary Firestone Beloved Religious Sister of Mercy and dedicated physician, entered Eternal Life on March 11, 2017. 

If I remember, she is one of the foundresses of the the Religious Sisters of Alma, Michigan.

 

Her beautiful thoughts;

Death is above all a theological consideration. It demands that we face the questions of existence, non-existence and the afterlife. One of the assumptions of this paper is that there is an element of eternity in life which throughout our life is in the process of becoming. In the passage of time, as death approaches, we feel loss, but we actually gain more than we lose. All that we have done during our lifetime, all that we have experienced, can be “gathered together” in the experience of death. At the moment of death, the eternal breaks into time. Thus may death be truly painless: when the dying person has the opportunity to submit, freely and lovingly, to the Eternal One.

[katherineH]

She was a beautiful sister! 

[OnlySunshine]

I remember meeting her when I went for my "Come and See" and went with the vocation director back to Saginaw since me and another visitor were flying out the next day.  Mother Jane Mary was the local superior of that convent and was very nice and easy to talk to.  Sad to hear of her passing.

[SNJM]

Prayers.