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Remembering Tom O’Gorman one year on

 
In the early hours of the morning of 12th January 2014, Tom O'Gorman was killed in a frenzied attack. Tom was a member of the Focolare community in Ireland working tirelessly for years to foster its projects for universal fraternity and trying to build relationships with people. An anniversary Mass will be celebrated at 7.30pm Tuesday 13th Jan in St Stephen’s Chaplaincy UCD Belfield - Dublin. Elisabeth Ohlbock pays tribute to Tom with a poem.

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Tom’s Glasses

Leaning against the wall in the corridor corner

Arms folded, weight on one leg,

The other foot gently tiptoeing on the floor,

Never full on, but always ready for an encounter

Your glasses half way down your nose.

Your eyes, Tom, always spoke,

Always spoke the person you were.

 

Your eyes, building bridges to people around you:

Re-assuring, engaging, expecting, questioning,

Suffering, searching, trying to understand.

And your glasses – part of your face.

Are you wearing glasses now, Tom?

 

What do they show you,

Now that you have entered perfect love,

Now that you are there where everything is consumed

In the All- healing, All- forgiving, All- sustaining, All- knowing?

 

Tom7Now, that no other thought than love is possible to you?

Are you wearing these type of glasses now?

Glasses that show you the other side of the coin?

Glasses that show you life as it is?

A mystery of love?

 

As I sit here thinking of you,

Still looking from the top rim of your glasses,

I cannot but be sure that this is what you now know.

That this is what you now see.

In all and everything: a mystery of Love.

 

by Elisabeth Ohlbock