A card Steve saved from Freshman year at cardinal Hayes - it sums up how Steve led his live
Andreas found Steve's notes on James 4:14-17 Pastor Bob walker used these notes in his sermon at Steve's Funeral. 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
A Faithful Servant
Steve was a faithful man and servant of God. At the wake and funeral, many coworkers shared with the family that they would talk about their fellow Christian faith with Steve and found great comfort in that
Many of us seek to learn from Steve's life of service. Though he was never boastful or arrogant about his dedication to God - he was always there at Church, helping where he could and striving to always acting in the way God asks us to.
He prayed daily, took notes on the Bible and sought continuously to learn.
A brief overview of his life of faith:
It starts with his parents, Frank and Theresa Moor, who were devout Catholics and instilled the importance of God in Steve from a young age.
His Catholic high school further instilled these principals in Steve. Father John Lennon - who worked at the school was a great mentor to Steve. Father Lennon would later fly to Chicago to marry Steve and Carolyn He wrote in Steve's yearbook:
"Fine people are rare in life. Knowing you as a friend has been a great joy at Hayes. Mall all the competition of life be but a stepping stone in Christ's Highway to your final victory, Heaven."
These words ring especially powerful after his passing.
In College, Steve helped his friend Joe start the fellowship of Christian athletes at Northwestern. Joe said at Steve's funeral that having someone like Steve in the room participating meant a lot.
Steve Youlious - another fraternity brother at Northwestern, described Steve as the most moral, ethical man he had ever met. Never going out partying crazy drinking or doing drugs ever.
At some point Steve began attending church at Protestant Churches.
When he moved to New Canaan, he visited every church with Carolyn, and eventually settled on the New Canaan Methodist Church. There he was active, leading mens fellowship, serving on committees and helping to do any chore around the church.
When he passed, the family had a catholic priest come and give Steve his last rights, because in his core and throughout his entire life, Steve was a good catholic boy.
At the funeral service Pastor Bob Walker said:
“I think what finally endures about our lives is a legacy of love we leave behind, and Steve’s legacy was huge…. Steve continues not only in our memories but in God’s eternal love. So I close this sermon with these words from the gospel.
Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your master.”
After his funeral there was a great and mighty thunderstorm that shook the Moor house. A friend sent this about the meaning of thunder after a funeral:
"When you hear thunder after a burial, it meant the spirit had made it to heaven."
As Steve's children read those words a great sensation overtook their bodies. God had sent a gift for his faithful son Steve, commanding nature itself to announce that Steve had made it to his final victory. Heaven.