| CONDOLENCES (GuestBook) |
6/12/2022 Thomas E Walsh
Warm Springs, GA, United States
Mike was a Treasured Classmate and Friend. He had a Major Impact on my Intellectual and Cultural Life. He will be missed.
6/13/2022 Rosemary Burchik
Flushing, NY, USA
My deepest condolences to the family, friends, colleagues, and students of Fr. Himes. I knew Fr. Himes when he was a priest at St. Luke Church in Queens. His kindness, humility, and deep devotion to the message of God's love in the Gospels was and will continue to be an inspiration. We lost a beautiful soul. Heaven gained one.
6/13/2022 Jane Lyder
Bethesda, MD, United States
I heard Fr Himes speak at my daughter's BC freshman orientation. I loved his analogy of the university being like a cocktail party where you good drift over to one corner and talk to Augustine & then move into a conversation with Einstein because time is irrelevant there. I went to a lecture of his on campus where he discussed his three questions. It was 2002 & I asked if he had a videotape of it. His assistant sent one & I showed it to my soon-to-be adult children & lent it to others. I have talked about it for 20 years -- such a simple way of charting a path in life. I especially liked the acknowledgment that the second question -- are you good at it? -- must be answered by others. A realistic reminder as we follow our dreams. My sympathy for his family & friends & students for such a loss but I know he left so much of himself behind and that is heartening.
6/14/2022 David Kraemer
Baltimore, MD, United States
I remember that he started his course with a lecture on 'everything that you can say about God is wrong'. Wait-- what?! Putting the infinite into finite words is guaranteed to fall short! Then he proceeded to reconstruct throughout the semester what he had torn down at the beginning. I think of him often still! A great man.
6/16/2022 Geri & Lenny Levitsky
Kings Park , New York, United States
How funny this life is. I had Fr. Michael in my heart and in my head as May 2022 began. He and his family are part of my childhood. He was part of "our" present... in 1972 as he married my husband Lenny and I - one of the first couples he married as a Brooklyn Diocesan Priest. I sent him a Golden Jubilee card right after Memorial Day this year thanking him for all he had made right in our lives - and that we will see 50 years of marriage come to fruition this November. I hope he got to read it. Learned this afternoon that he has passed. Here's what I know, he is with his mother, who absolutely loved him. He was a wonderful "regular person" but a spectacular priest and teacher. His gifts were vast, and anyone who had the happy circumstance to cross his path, was blessed. Our hearts are full, as we remember him, and send our love and condolences to family and friends who will begin the process of missing him. With love and remembrance, Geri & Lenny Levitsky
6/19/2022 John Lazar
Wilton Manors, FL,
I remember meeting Michael in my home parish of St. Jerome in Flatbush Brooklyn. One summer evening, he invited several of us who were teaching CCD to ride with him to Rye Playland in Connecticut. We had a wonderful time and on the ride back to Brooklyn we had a delightful chit chat back forth until we realized that we were half way to Boston. Michael had a way that engaged you, nothing else really mattered. A few years later, he was my Theology Professor at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception. He will be sorely missed.
6/25/2022 Jim for brother Bill Frost
Hicksville, NY, USA
6/25/2022 Bill Frost
Warren, MI, USA
I was a classmate of Michael’s in Cathedral Prep in Brooklyn and then served with him at St Kevin’s Flushing as deacons. He was brilliant and funny and a good friend. He will be missed