\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Another service is planned at Mount Ecclesia in Oceanside on the following Sunday, September 13, for her Friends living down south who cannot make it to L.A. on September 6.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you, Vilma, for a job well done, and so long till we meet again<\/em> … in the Light.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Let us send our prayers and may we all continue to live selflessly in the light of love for His name\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n
Jean de Galzain<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vilma, a devoted member who gave us doves for our centennial and food in our cafeteria; a persistent, devoted volunteer who always served wherever she was needed.\u00a0 For many of us Vilma was a new friend, and the acquaintance much too brief.\u00a0 A few days ago she spoke confidently to one of her new friends, however, and said, \u201cI will be back.\u201d\u00a0 It is a pleasure to remember those last words and the typical confidence in her voice as she\u00a0spoke them because, God willing, there will come that day and that \u201cnew\u201d friend.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On\u00a0August 15,\u00a0Shirley Sharpe, a long-time employee of The Rosicrucian Fellowship at Mount Ecclesia said her last goodbyes before joining the choir of angels.\u00a0 Shirley worked in many capacities at Mount Ecclesia.\u00a0 She was in charge of the Healing Department for\u2026more than a decade (?), but most notably she directed Mount Ecclesia\u2019s choir and choreographed many performances in the Little Theater, enriching the lives of those who worked and visited at the RF headquarters. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During the post-911 unsettling times, Shirley held what some called Shirley\u2019s soirees — weekly musical celebrations of praise, thanksgiving, and prayerful, musical petitions for peace.\u00a0 Only Shirley could incorporate her self-proclaimed sassiness, her not-too-humble dignity, and her persistent earnestness with a mostly-hidden sense of humor. \u00a0Quietly, she was the soul who signed the tiny initial at the bottom of the healing letters.\u00a0 It was she who conducted the prayer services every morning in the little chapel of the Healing Department, she who provided direction for the production of Amahl And The Night Visitors<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0In the afternoons and evenings she played the organ in the Pro-Ecclesia and in the Temple.\u00a0 \u00a0Mount Ecclesia is much too quiet without her now, but heaven\u2019s music all the richer.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A service was held in the Chapel at Mount Ecclesia in her memory on Sunday August 23 2009 at 1.30 pm.<\/p>\n Click on\u00a0Image<\/strong> to hear: Piano version of Dvorak’s Largo<\/strong> (Going Home)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
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