DENYSE MOSTERT, Missionary Oblate Associate RIP
For over ten years, Denyse has been writing a daily reflection in response to the French version of “Eugene de Mazenod Speaks”. She was an intuitive writer who loved St Eugene and communicated his message in an attractive way. It was our love for St Eugene who brought us together and made us friends (and coincidentally we shared the same birthday, even though the years were different). Each day, since 2010, when my meditation was published in French, she would respond with her own incisive reflection on the same material, bringing a greater depth of understanding to St Eugene’s text. I was told many times by several people that they preferred her interpretation to mine – it made me so happy to hear this and to be able to tease her about it.
Adieu, Denyse, and thank you for all that you did to make Saint Eugene better known, understood and loved!
I ask all our English readers to pray in thanksgiving for Denyse, and for comfort to her children and grandchildren, whom she loved passionately. May she rest in peace.
Thank you Frank for sharing the news of Denyse.
Dear Denyse, now you are home. I find myself singing “how beautiful on the mountain are the feet of her, who brings good new, good news…” What a missionary you have been to all of us, writing as you have and sharing your experience of God and Eugene; a beautiful model for us to imitate and follow. You will be missed here on earth, by your children and grandchildren, and by all of the members of our shared Mazenodian Family. I will remember you for your many kindnesses to me in our daily reflections.
I give thanks for having met you as I did and look forward to joining you when I too am called to return home to our Beloved. You have entered into the fullness of life and I celebrate your life Denyse. Pray for all us who are left here. Thank you for having been such a special sister to all of us, an elder to many.