Bishop Leila BOYER, the living of a life

Our thoughts and prayers have been focused on the beloved Arch Bishop Leila BOYER, OCR (Pre-Nicene Ekklesia, Member of the Council of Three and Grand Master of the Healing, Teaching and Chivalric Order of St. Michael and St. Raphael), who was on the verge of entering into the planes of Spiritual Life, the Communion of the Mortal with the Spiritual and the Life of the World to Come, after having been diagnosed with terminal Cancer and recently admitted to Charing Cross Hospital in the United Kingdom.  Leila was transferred to St Raphael's Hospice in Cheam last Monday, which was one of her wishes.  She lapsed into unconsciousness on Tuesday and did not recover.  In the early hours of yesterday morning (Thursday, February 19) she passed away.  Her family informs that she was not in any pain and was peaceful.

While we mourn her passing, I'm reminded of the words of the Right Rev. J. I. Wedgewood who wrote in 1932 that:

"It is not death, or the manner in which the death is brought about, that weighs most;  it is the living of a life. For a deeply sensitive man of our own class and standing, life is often made difficult by the commonness, the coarseness, the vulgarity of much that confronts us.  A sensitive man suffers under unpleasant influences playing upon him.  But a great love for humanity, the keeping aflame within ourselves of great compassion for the suffering of others, and a strong determination to help and be an example of strength and radiant joy, all that tends to lessen difficulties caused by sensitivity and great refinement of body and temperament.  It is not that aspect of suffering that we need to stress in connection with our Blessed Lord.  Sacrifice when rightly understood is a joyous process.  When one cn put aside all the claims of the lower separated self the inflow of the Divine Life that then takes place bears with it the most exquisite joy and happiness."

Reverend +Leila lived a selfless life of sacrifice for others.  Her generosity and overall contributions to historical scholarship, peace, to the Christian church and betterment of mankind, to spirituality, to the unity of all sects and divisions of Christianity and to the healing of the sick are immeasurable.

People around the globe had been sending prayers up asking that her hour of departure be one of comfort and grace owed to Divine intercession by the Holy Paraclete upon the Wings of Jehovah.  Just yesterday, we offered up a Mass of the Holy Ghost.  And thus, placed in the ranks of the Blissful, may she obtain the joy of contemplating God throughout all Eternity. May her soul be allowed eternal rest, and may the Ever-Shining Light shine on it, through Jesus Christ Our Lord and Master, and through Saint John His servant.  Amen. +