{"id":35919,"date":"2020-05-23T17:24:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T21:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35919"},"modified":"2020-05-24T07:50:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T11:50:30","slug":"francis-g-morrisey-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/francis-g-morrisey-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis G. Morrisey, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The sad news was sent out among the canon lawyers that the “dean” of canonical study, Father Francis G. Morrisey, O.M.I., died this morning at 9:40 a.m. at \u00c9lisabeth Bruy\u00e8re Hospital, Ottawa. \u00a0Father Morrisey had\u00a0been receiving palliative care for the past several weeks due to a cancer diagnosis. His sister, Joan, was with him at the time of his death.<\/p>\n

As one canonist said, “The Church has been enriched by Frank\u2019s selfless outpouring and, through the Church, cultures and societies throughout the world have also been enriched. He remains a gentleman esteemed and admired by a plethora of social innovators, church leaders, and professional colleagues.\u00a0He has shown himself to be a faithful son of Saint Eugene De Mazenod who envisioned bringing healing and hope to the peripheries of Eugene\u2019s day. Frank has done the same in today\u2019s world.”<\/p>\n

Father Morrisey mentored many\u00a0at Saint Paul University, Ottawa. It\u00a0was \u00a0said that he was a brilliant, humble, caring teacher –a priest and servant of the gospel- a colleague, a gentle soul and a friend.\u00a0He was a great contributor at the annual CLSA convention and at\u00a0regional canon law conferences.<\/p>\n

While I did not know Father\u00a0Morrisey personally, I had some communication with him through the years and I have used his canonical thought. We all have been enriched by Father’s presence and his great humanity. He won a lifetime achievement aware in 2019 which you can read\/listen here<\/strong><\/a>. Thanks be to God.<\/p>\n

Eternal rest, grant unto Father\u00a0Morrisey O Lord\u00a0and let perpetual light shine upon him.
\nMay he rest in peace. Amen.<\/p>\n

May Father’s\u00a0soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
\nAmen.<\/p>\n

Eternal memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sad news was sent out among the canon lawyers that the “dean” of canonical study, Father Francis G. Morrisey, O.M.I., died this morning at 9:40 a.m. at \u00c9lisabeth Bruy\u00e8re Hospital, Ottawa. \u00a0Father Morrisey had\u00a0been receiving palliative care for the past several weeks due to a cancer diagnosis. His sister, Joan, was with him at … Continue reading Francis G. Morrisey, RIP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[2020,32330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35924,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35919\/revisions\/35924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}