I recently received this email and couldn’t help but think of my father, whose anniversary of passing is today. I’m lucky Joe Clair was my father. Here is one of our email exchanges from the last Father’s Day he was alive: I wrote: Dear Dad, we once had a professor who said that the kids [...]
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My Father’s Anniversary…in Heaven! 2 comments
I Praise You God…REHEARSAL! 1 comment
I found this cool video over on youtube. For those of you who have walked by my office or spent any length of time with me, you know I listened to Danielle Rose for quite some time! Well, I found this great video of her song, Wonderfully Made (Psalm 139) on Youtube. Do you know [...]
I was a second year teacher… Leave a comment
Over fifteen years ago I met the Salesian Sisters for the first time in Port Chester, NY. I was in my second year teaching first grade in a Catholic school in Queens, NY. I hadn’t even heard of St. John Bosco, and here were the Sisters only about 45 minutes away! I had been discerning [...]
Question #6: Why Salesian? 2 comments
There are so many religious orders out there. Google can’t even answer the question of how many orders there are, because God continues to gift the Church with new charisms, and therefore, new orders continue to be born. Considering this, I can’t help but wonder how God was good enough to bring me here! I [...]
The Alpha and The Omega 2 comments
I found this online, and couldn’t help of the song, “You are My All in All”. Jesus is saying He is the A and Z and everything in between. He is Alpha, Adonai, our Advocate, the Amen, the second Adam, the Almighty, the Author and Finisher of our Faith. He is the Babe of Bethlehem, [...]
O Holy Night (And Gifts that are Given) 2 comments
A friend of mine sent this to me. It is one of my favorite songs, and I especially love when Sr. Suzanne Dauwalter sings it. Sr. Suzanne is our Provincial Economer, and her voice is simply God’s gift. She has never been trained, but her voice has the character and quality of these women, who [...]
Italian…”italiano” Leave a comment
I learned Italian. It never seemed I would be able to learn a foreign language. When I was a kid, and spoke the little bit of Spanish, I remember wondering what good the phrase, “the pen is red” would do for me in real life and how this knowledge would help me to communicate in [...]
