Celebrating Narges Moshiri’s Life in Three Movements:
Sadness
Gratitude
Celebration
Tristeza – Song
Tristeza, Vinicius de Moraes
Tristeza
Por favor vai embora
A minha alma que chora
Está vendo o meu fim
Fez do meu coração
A sua moradia
Já é demais o meu penar
Quero voltar aquela
Vida de alegria
Quero de novo cantar
A song from the Brazilian Poet Vinicius de Moraes
A song that Narges liked to hear
Sadness
Please, go away
My soul that cries
Is foreseeing my end
You made my heart into your home
My suffering has already gone too far
I want to go back to that life of joy
I want to sing again
La da la la…
Quero de novo cantar
Quero de novo cantar
Quero de novo cantar
Collective Prayer
Our hearts are filled with sadness because we lost our precious, precious precious, precious… Narges. This sadness that took my heart and made it its home, doesn’t want to leave. So for now, for this brief moment we will allow this sadness to come fully to our hearts and the way we will do it is by praying for each other. We are all here in such a fragile state, I feel my heart is beating outside of my chest.
Our precious Narges…
She was our North, our South, our East and West,
A joyful noise in our hearts, an always welcoming nest
Stop all the clocks, our hearts filled with sadness
Set a table before us, her joy and compassion hunting us with gladness
So we will mourn
Praying for each other.
Let us pray especially for Isabelle, for Josephine and for Chris.
Let us give the best gift of our hearts can offer to them now
So may God give them/us the strength to face this hour.
Let us pray silently in our hearts
Tristeza, por favor vai embora…
Kyrie eleison
Have mercy oh God
Hear our prayers
When our hearts are shattered by Narges death
Heal us, make Narges presence abide in our hearts until the end of our days
We pray in the name of the love that SHE loved us all.
Song – Blessed Be
Now
We were so blessed by Narges weren’t we?
Now it is time for us to remember the ways in which she blessed us.
We will continue to sing softly and I want you to speak loud in one phrase
How did Narges blessed you?
My Blessing – Band keep playing softly
Blessed be the very moment when the universe, when God thought of the existence of Narges.
Blessed be the womb who gave her birth
Blessed be her mother, her father, her sister and her whole family
Blessed be the meals she ate
Blessed be the school she studied, the streets of Abadan, Teheran and her country
Blessed be the toys she played with
Blessed be the day when the family decided to come to Canada
Blessed be the day she came to Harvard
Blessed be the day she met Chris
Blessed be forever the day they fell in love
Blessed be the many meals they had together
Blessed be their marriage and the day of their wedding
Blessed be the very day when Josephine was conceived
Blessed be the day she was born into this family
Blessed be the day they came to Louisville to bless us all
Blessed be the very day when Isabelle was conceived
Blessed be the day she was born into this family
Blessed be the many days Narges breastfed her daughters
Blessed be the Waldorf school where she taught
Blessed be all the children who learned with her and were recipients of her love
Blessed be all the flowers she touched
Blessed be cats she loved and all the animals she wanted to bring home
Blessed be Danny who gave her so much joy
Blessed be her strength to fight this illness
Blessed be Narges for her resilience, her smiles, always
Blessed be her heart who was always offered as a house to whomever got near her
Blessed be the countless meals she cooked
Blessed be food, for food made her body rejoyce
Blessed be household of Narges, Chris, Josephine and Isabelle
Blessed be the many years they lived together
Blessed be the many meals they ate together
Blessed be the song they sang together before every meal holding hands
Blessed be her birth,
Blessed be her life,
Blessed be her death,
Blessed be our beloved Narges
Blessed be our beloved Narges
Blessed be our beloved Narges
Silence
Drumming starts
Transitions to celebration – celebrating Narges life
And now, we will end with a joyful noise.
We will sing and dance and rejoice in Narges life and will keep her memory forever
With a song Chris composed
Singing Gloria, In Excelsis Deo
Get Chris & girls
Family
Everybody leaves – the band keeps playing, we keep celebrating our precious Narges