DODD, Fr Michael

This was published in the following publications on 05.11.2023:
Irish Times

DODD, Fr. Michael (Columban Fathers) (Liscahill, Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford; Korea, USA and Dalgan Park, Navan) - November 5th 2023 peacefully in the loving care of the staff of St. Columban's Retirement Home, Navan. Predeceased by his parents Anthony and Delia, brother Alfie. Very deeply regretted by his sister May, nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, extended family, Columban family and friends. R.I.P Removal and Evening Prayer today (Monday) at 7pm in St.Columban's, Dalgan Park. Requiem Mass tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11am, followed by burial in the Community Cemetery. "Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam uasal "

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A colleague and a friend to my family in the USA over many years, especially while he was assigned to the Columban Promotion House in Quincy, Massachusetts, Father Michael Dodd entered into the Paschal Mystery yesterday morning in Ireland. I visited him in our Dalgan Park facility there a little over a month ago, while accompanying my sisters on a trip in Ireland, and met his sister. He had given his car over to a homeless shelter just the previous day, and was already in hospice care, but alert and clear of mind, recognizing me immediately. Indeed, I had no idea of his state of health before coming by to see him, and Father Mike was the only person in our community of retired mission priests in Dalgan Park that I had advised of my visit beforehand! "You're welcome anytime," he had written on my Facebook messenger app, making no mention of his condition. It was a good statement about his character--I felt welcomed anytime to see him and talk away, throughout the time I knew him, whether in the Office of Justice and Peace that I would visit in Washington, D.C., or in Quincy, or in any of the other places in the Columban world that we would run into each other. He asked me to preach at my first Mission Appeal assignment at a parish on Cape Cod for a weekend, and congratulated me on the response we got there. He contracted my father, who worked for an ecological service for a time, to remove an underground heating oil storage unit on the Quincy property, as well as to dispose of asbestos insulation on the hot-water pipes there, and admired my parents greatly. I'm looking forward to hearing him say once more, "You're welcome anytime," as we rejoice in the victory of New Life together, there in the place that is being prepared for us by Christ.

Father Bob Mosher, St. Columban's Residence, Bristol, Rhode Island (USA).

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