This morning I saw this photo, which brought bittersweet memories.

The two vested priests are Fr George Livanos (l) & Fr Dragan Filipović (r), serving together at All Saints Church in Canonsburg PA. Both of them, and both of their families, were powerful examples of faith and encouraging supports to us in our life in the Church.  Both reposed in the past five years.

May he who rose from the dead and himself has authority over the living and the dead, Christ our true God, through the prayers of his most pure Mother, of the all-laudable Apostles, of our venerable and God-bearing Fathers, and of all the saints, establish the souls of his servants, who have been taken from us, in the mansions of the righteous, give them rest in the bosom of Abraham, and number them among the righteous, and have mercy on us, for he is good and loves mankind. Amen.