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<html><body><font face="Helvetica">Beautiful<br><br>Sent from Xfinity Cont Mobile App</font><blockquote><br>------ Original Message ------<br><br=<b>From: </b>Alex Snyder-Mackler<br><b>To: </b>Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, A=hley Biden, Hallie Biden, Missy Owens, Valerie Owens, Ted Kaufman, Eric Sc=werin<br><b>Sent: </b>October 23, 2015 at 7:51 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Fr. O=Donovan interview </blockquote><blockquote><html><head></head><body dir=auto"><div>Thought you might be interested in this answer from Father O=;Donovan, in which he sort of compares Beau to Jesus:</div><div><br></div>=div><i>And so in the homily, whether people noticed this or not, I actuall= tried to draw an identification between Beau and Jesus, and in the first =aragraph I described the loss that his death entailed by saying that, &ldq=o;We had hoped that he would be the one, we had put our trust in him,&rdqu=; or words to that effect, which are the words that the disciples on their=way to Emmaus speak, when they speak to Jesus without recognizing him. So = was consciously trying to speak of our hopes for this young man the way p=ople had hoped in Jesus and then faced his death, and then hoped never the=less.</i></div><div><div><span style="background-color: ;"><br></span></=iv></div><div><p dir="LTR" align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: start;=margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: ;"=You mentioned having the privilege of presiding over the funeral mass for =ice President Joe Biden’s son. I just wanted to ask you what that me=nt to you, to be able to do that.</strong></p><p dir="LTR" align="JUST=FY" style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span=style="background-color: ;">Well, it was a very, it was a very painful m=ment shared by a lot of people and instinctively — I don’t kno= how to put this without crying. Beau Biden was, by any measure, an extrao=dinary young man. He was 46 when he died, but he was never the less a youn= man so clearly at the beginning of what might be hoped for. He became the=attorney general of the state; it was widely expected that he would run fo= governor, unless you really knew him and the immediate family well becaus= the original diagnosis of the brain tumor was very severe. And he was a m=n of extraordinary generosity as his brother Hunter (CO ’92), who we=t to Georgetown, and Beau went to Penn, but, as Hunter said, his first mem=ry, Hunter’s first memory of life, was waking up in that hospital be= after the accident where his mother was killed and his little baby sister= And his brother Beau was leaning across from the bed next to his holding =is hand and looking intently into his eyes and saying repeatedly, “I=love you, I love you.” And then Hunter said, “And that was the=story of my brother’s life. If you needed something, he took your ha=d.” And the president, in his beautiful and very personal eulogy, sa=d of Beau, “He was the most popular politician in Delaware,” a=d then he looked down at Joe Biden and said, “Sorry Joe.”</spa=></p><p dir="LTR" align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: start; margin: =px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: ;">And at the=end of Hunter’s eulogy he said, “So that was my brother, and I=rsquo;m proud — but what I’m most proud of is that he took my =and first.” I would never have been asked to preside at that funeral=mass or give a homily if I hadn’t been at Georgetown all those years= If I hadn’t come to know Joe as senator and more recently as the vi=e president. If I hadn’t gotten to know his sister, Valerie, who too= care of the boys after their mother’s death. Some of her children w=nt to Georgetown. There are young members of the family hoping now to go t= Georgetown.</span></p><p dir="LTR" align="JUSTIFY" style="text-alig=: start; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-co=or: ;">It had a lot to do with Georgetown and Washington, and it felt very=much like being home, because there were so many people there from Congres=, President Clinton was there with Hillary Clinton in the front pew next t= the Obamas. Mitch McConnell was there, Lindsey Graham I think was there; =embers of the Republican side of the House and Senate. I didn’t thin= of it then, but as I look back, I’m proud that that’s the kin= of situation where Georgetown could make a contribution. Being a universi=y in the nation’s capital and being in a position to respond to some=hing really aching and painful beyond words, but something hopeful and fai=hful even more beyond words.</span></p><p dir="LTR" align="JUSTIFY" st=le="text-align: start; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: ;">The night before the funeral I wrote to Hunter and=said, “Tomorrow will be very hard, Hunter, but it will be somewhere =ull of grace and hope.” And I got off the computer and put that line=into the homily, because I hadn’t thought of it before. That was tru=; it was like dying with Jesus, but hoping you would be one with him forev=r. And so in the homily, whether people noticed this or not, I actually tr to draw an identification between Beau and Jesus, and in the first para=raph I described the loss that his death entailed by saying that, “W= had hoped that he would be the one, we had put our trust in him,” o= words to that effect, which are the words that the disciples on their way=to Emmaus speak, when they speak to Jesus without recognizing him. So I wa= consciously trying to speak of our hopes for this young man the way peopl= had hoped in Jesus and then faced his death, and then hoped never the les=.</span></p><p dir="LTR" align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: start; m=rgin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: ;">Tha=’s part of our university’s tradition. John Carroll, our found=r, was an ardent republican in the sense of supporting the new republic. H= wrote the prayer that was used at George Washington’s inauguration.=We have this immense honor and responsibility of a special connection with=the government of our great country, and I was given trust, the trust of t=at institution for a time, and from the very beginning I thought, “T=is is a great trust, and I will do the best I can with it, and then hand i= on because it’s only for a time,” which was actually a great =elief. It was not something I had to do so there is a freedom in that.</sp=n></p><p dir="LTR" align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: start; margin:=0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: ;">That&rsqu=;s a rather philosophical answer to your question, but it’s the deep=r truth. We’ll always be in Washington. No matter how international =nd global, increasingly international and global. … That’s ou= heart and the heart of its students because of whom the faculty comes tog=ther, for whom the money is raised to support the teaching and the housing=of the students and their activities, and because of whom, students and th= faculty, all the facilities are built, but it starts with the students ar=und whom a faculty gathers in the hopes that these will be young women and=men as Jesuits say, “for others,” or responsible for a better =orld. What better thing could you be about?</span></p></div><div><br></div=<blockquote><div><div style="width:100%;max-width:650px"><div style="f=nt-family:Arial"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;border-left:1px =olid #e4e4e4;border-right:1px solid #e4e4e4"><tbody><tr><td style="paddi=g-left:18px"><br></td><td style="padding:16px 0px 12px 0px;border-bottom=1px solid #e4e4e4"><br><br></td> <td style="padding-right:18px"></td> </=r> <tr> <td style="padding-left:18px"></td> <td style="padding:18px =px 12px 0px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Arial"> <a href="https://www.=oogle.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.thehoya.com/on-god-beau-bide=-and-a-hilltop-dining-hall/&ct=ga&cdEYACoUMTQyMTM4ODY1NTQ5MDg0ODgyM=gyGmEwZWI3ODhkYTE2MzdjYjE6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usgQjCNHP_MGxDjzR6auajyqi_gfo7=Idiw" style="text-decoration:none" > <table align="right" style="dis=lay:inline;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding-lef=:18px"></td> <td background="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzjUr7nt6jDSaH94zcisqPnFsvOhyym6l05nkNZ2wgEM0NnGgZ-dFw5bBHUxos=G6ub6LQQ-Pe" height="100" width="100" valign="bottom" style="paddi=g:0px 0px 0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;text-align:center;border:1px=solid #e4e4e4"> <div style="color:#fff;font-size:9px;letter-spacing:0.=px"> <div style="padding:3px 0px 4px 4px;background:rgb(255,255,255);bac=ground-color:;width:96px">Georgetown University The Hoya</div> </div> </t=> </tr> </tbody></table> </a> <div> <span style="padding:0px 6px 0px 0p="> <a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.t=ehoya.com/on-god-beau-biden-and-a-hilltop-dining-hall/&ct=ga&cdEYAC=UMTQyMTM4ODY1NTQ5MDg0ODgyMDgyGmEwZWI3ODhkYTE2MzdjYjE6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=jCNHP_MGxDjzR6auajyqi_gfo73Idiw" style="color:#427fed;display:inline;tex=-decoration:none;font-size:16px;line-height:20px" > <span>On God, <b>Beau =iden</b>, and a Hilltop Dining Hall</span> </a> </span> <div> <div style="padding:2px 0px 8px 0px"> <div style="color:#737373;font-size:12px"> =a style="text-decoration:none;color:#737373"> <span>Georgetown Universit= The Hoya</span> </a> </div> <div style="color:#252525;padding:2px 0px 0=x 0px;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">I had the great honor — it wa= a very painful day — but the great honor of celebrating <b>Beau Bid=n's</b> funeral Mass and preaching at that Mass in early ...</div= </div> <table> <tbody><tr> <td width="16" style="padding-right:6px"=<br></td><td width="16" style="padding-right:6px"><br></td><td width="16" style="padding-right:6px"><br></td><td style="padding:0px 0px 6=x 15px;font-family:Arial"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td><=d style="padding-right:18px"><br></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-leftpx"><br></td><td style="padding:18px 0px 12px 0px;vertical-align:top;b=rder-top:1px solid #e4e4e4;font-family:Arial"><br></td><td style="paddin=-right:18px"><br></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-left:18px"><br></td><t= style="padding:18px 0px 12px 0px;vertical-align:top;border-top:1px soli= #e4e4e4;font-family:Arial"><br></td><td style="padding-right:18px"><br>=/td></tr><tr><td style="padding-left:18px"><br></td><td style="paddingpx 0px 12px 0px;vertical-align:top;border-top:1px solid #e4e4e4;font-fam=ly:Arial"><br></td><td style="padding-right:18px"><br></td></tr><tr><td =olspan="3" valign="middle" style="background-color:#f8f8f8;font-sizepx;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;padding:10px 10px 10px 10px;l=ne-height:20px;border:1px solid #e4e4e4;font-family:Arial"><br></td></tr><=tbody></table> </div> </div>
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