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	In Memoriam: Ann Brentwood, Director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests SNAP in Tennessee. Voice from the Desert February 2, 2010 http://reform-network.net/?p=2570 TENNESSEE -- This issue of NSAC News is dedicated to the memory of Ann Brentwood, who served for many years as the director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) in Tennessee. The National Survivor Advocates Coalition, pauses today to pay our respects to Ann for all that she has so selflessly done in the service of the human family. Ann passed away on January 28, 2010 after spending more than 30 years supporting women who have been sexually abused by members of the Clergy in the Roman Catholic Church. Those among us who have been brutally raped, sodomized and otherwise sexually and spiritually moslested by those they trusted so much. Those whose faith and trust was stolen from them in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. Those whose dreams have become their nightmares. Those who travel through the stygian abbyses of helplessness and hopelessness. Those who seek justice, compassion and understanding and are met with episcopal rebuff and disdain. Ann is now, I am certain, at rest in that place where the greatest rewards are given to those who faithfully fulfilled Our Lord's command to "love thy neighbor as thyself." May the perpetual light shine upon her! Paul tells us in First Corinthians, "Faith, hope and love remain, these three, but the greatest of these is love." "Ubi caritas, Deus ibi est." Where there is love, there is God.
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