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Priests Who Influenced Me – Good Role Models!
Read more: Priests Who Influenced Me – Good Role Models!Some kids have role models who are sports figures or athletes. Some have role models among their family members, and a few, like me, have had both plus role models in the clergy. Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, the clergy played an important part in my life. I always felt inspired by […]
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Getting Back Up After Three Quick Deaths in the Family – It takes time!
Read more: Getting Back Up After Three Quick Deaths in the Family – It takes time!The death of a loved one is always difficult, whether it’s a sudden death or even if it’s after a prolonged illness. The price we pay for loving is grief and mourning after the loved one goes home to God. Within the span of 21 months, my mom, my dad, and my brother Tom entered […]
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Going away to Albany – Time to Grow Up!
Read more: Going away to Albany – Time to Grow Up!Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, Albany, NY – an interdiocesan major seminary conducted by the Vincentian Fathers, established at Niagara Falls in 1856 and relocated in 1961 and closed in 1972 After finishing six years as a student of Cathedral Prep Seminary in Brooklyn, NY (traveling by train from Astoria, NY), I was awaiting […]
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Sisters of Saint Joseph – A Legacy of Education!
Read more: Sisters of Saint Joseph – A Legacy of Education!From Left to Right: Sister Anna Desiderio (RIP), Bishop Ray Chappetto, Sister Letitia Lake, Sister Francis Claire Gowen (RIP) on June 30, 2012 Growing up in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish (Astoria), we were blessed to have a parochial school that had two buildings: grades 1-4 in the “old school,” built in 1891, […]
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