G'bye, Father Bernie

Mike Benedetti reports that Father Bernie Gilgun has passed away. The wake will be held at Saint Anne’s Church in Shrewsbury on Thursday, with the Mass of Christian Burial on Friday.
I'd know Father Bernie for close to 40 years. My mother was a good friend of his as well. We knew him during a stretch of hard times for all of us.
Even as a non-Catholic, I felt no doubt that I was on a shared quest with hm. The quest was meant that what was broken spiritually inside of us had to be mended in great part of by action outside of ourselves. Faith without works, we knew, was dead, as were works without faith.
We can grieve, but not for long, because we've got to pick up where he left off.