The Very Rev. Robert J. Deehan, pastor of Holy Family Church in Duxbury, in October baptized Callan Clancy, a child boy who had a full life forward of him.
On Friday, Deehan co-led a personal funeral for Callan, simply 7 months previous, and his older siblings, Cora, 5, and Dawson, 3, in a close-by South Shore city.
The three kids died after their 32-year-old mom Lindsay Clancy allegedly strangled them inside their Duxbury dwelling the night of Jan. 24.
Family and invited company gathered at St. Mary of the Nativity in Scituate on a bitterly chilly day for what Deehan stated was a “beautiful funeral.”
The kids’s father, Patrick Clancy, wished the funeral to be held in a well-recognized church — his dad and mom are Scituate residents — and away from Duxbury “because of the memories that happened here,” Deehan instructed the Herald later Friday.
As Duxbury continues to grieve for the Clancys, Deehan’s church opened its doorways Friday morning for 23 hours for neighborhood members to quietly replicate and pray for the household. It ends Saturday at 8 a.m.
Priests take care of births, deaths and all the things in between, Deehan stated, including he by no means would’ve thought “there’d be a connection between the young child we baptized a few months ago to find that (he’s) now deceased.”
Callan held on for 3 days. Cora and Dawson had been pronounced lifeless that Tuesday night time after Duxbury first responders discovered them unconscious on the dwelling at 47 Summer St.
Though his job is to assist present consolation to these grieving, Deehan stated he’s felt “emotionally touched” because the tragedy.
“I was at breakfast and there was a 2-year-old playing with his little trucks, thinking of the children who would’ve been doing that themselves and are now gone,” he stated. “There are moments when you can’t help but feel … and a lot of the times it’s triggered by young children and families that I see, it just brings it back to what isn’t anymore in the Clancy family.”
Duxbury has rallied collectively. Roughly 500 neighborhood members attended a vigil at Holy Family two nights after the killing. A GoFundMe has raised greater than $1 million as of Friday to assist the Clancys. Initially, the web page had a fundraising objective of $250,000 to assist Patrick Clancy pay for medical payments, funeral companies and authorized assist.
“There was just a beautiful spirit,” Deehan stated trying again ultimately week’s vigil. “The community, in one way, they’re reaching out and praying for the family, but also for one another and for themselves because they are grieving. Just to have this happen in this town, all things considered, it’s a peaceful town and tragedies like that don’t happen very often.”
The Clancys are Holy Family parishioners, and although Deehan stated he doesn’t know them that effectively, he’s made it identified to Patrick and Lindsay that he’s by their facet.
Deehan has met with Patrick a number of instances since that nightmare night and met with Lindsay the day after at a Boston hospital, the place on the time she was unconscious and regarded in vital situation.
Lindsay’s situation has began to enhance, Duxbury Police Chief Michael Carbone stated Thursday. She will likely be arraigned in Plymouth District Court on Tuesday.
“She’s just overwhelmed by the circumstances,” Deehan stated of Lindsay. “Unfortunately, her medication or whatever just didn’t (stop) whatever caused her to do what she did to her children or herself for that matter.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”