Brother Kevin Dismas Moshier fsp:  

Dear Friends and Classmates; It is hard to believe that it has been over forty three years since we all left High School and have gone out to change the world, I think of all of you often and keep you in my prayers for His presence and peace in your journeys. I always look back fondly on my time in High School and my many friends that I made there. The two event that has stood out in my journey was as was yearbook editor my junior year at Frankfurt in 1972 and chairing one of the two senior class trips in 1973. Our trip went to Palma de Mallorca Spain, an island off the southern coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, for a week in April of 1973, I believe a good time was had by all. Currently a Brother in the Friars of the Sick Poor of Los Angeles CA, serving the poor, sick and marginalized in Los Angeles County as a Urban Interfaith Chaplain at the LA County University of Southern California Medical Center, 2011 - 2014 worked for LA County Youth Detention assisting 12-17 year old boys and girls with group therapy support sessions. Lived in Guadalajara Mexico from May through July of 2014 with the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit for a immersion in spanish to provided spiritual care to the spanish speaking sick and poor of LA. Much of my work is as a grief councilor and end of life palliative care chaplain to the dying and their families I have lived a very full life, met my wife in Washington DC in 1975 while we were both stationed at Naval Regional Medical Center in Bethesda MD. I was at the end of my first tour with the Navy and attending Seminary with The Holy Cross Order at Catholic University, but met Catherine and fell madly in love. We were married in 1976 for thirty-one years, we have three children and seven grand children. I lost Catherine seven years ago to a rare type of cancer (it says in scripture that the two shall be come as one, I miss her deeply every day of my life and look forward to the day I will see her again). I have been a member of the Order Franciscan Secular as a lay person for over ten years and In my journeys. During a trip to Europe I felt the call of God while traveling in Assisi Italy. I came to a decision with the support and approval of my children to work for God full time. This is where my inner joy and peace comes from! For the first two years after Catherine's death I was a Capuchin Franciscan Friar on the East Coast working with and for the homeless in Philadelphia, but found I wanted to be closer to my children and grand children in Phoenix AZ. So I requested permission to change religious communities and moved to Los Angeles CA, and here I am. I retired as a Chief Petty Officer from the US Navy in 1993 as nationally board certified laboratory technician, owned a laboratory with fourteen employees and 170 accounts in three states, after that I owned a consulting company in the food manufacturing industry and traveled around the world putting in quality assurance operating systems. My wife was a Captain/Colonel USPHS Nurse NP and a member of the Rapid Ready Response Team for the Department of Health and Human Services out of Washington DC. She was a awesome person, wife, best friend and soulmate. Catherine was in the process of completing her Doctorate in Nursing and had three Master degrees under her belt. She loved working with the elderly and children and had a very deep faith life. Dear Friends / Christmas 2014 We have reached that time of year when our focus is drawn to those who we miss or who have not been in our dail...Expand for more