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How Do You Respond to a Love Like That?
By Sarah Summers Granger The last fading rays of the sunset reflected off of the Mediterranean Ocean, giving the waves a silvery glow. I remember thinking that the view, the crisp February breeze, and the empty beach stretching out long in every direction were all so perfect. At any other time, I would have been captivated by every detail, but…
Teurlings Catholic High School Winter Work Day
The 35 young men of the two-time State Champion Teurlings wrestling team under the direction of Coach Kent Mason came out to do a little volunteer work at Big Woods this week. We are so blessed by the sweat and hard work they put in to make our grounds look more beautiful while also helping us with some much needed spring…
The Green Explosion
By Genie Summers All of a sudden, I can see the “baby” green leaves giving a lovely hope of Spring. I love Louisiana in mid-February. Spring is already peeking out at us from barren trees, grasses that have browned, and in the outrageously beautiful blooms on the Japenese Magnolia trees and fragrant Narcissus blossoms that line the flower beds of…
GOD HELP US! We’ve got to improve the way we do things.
By Frank Summers These are very alarming times, for the world and for the Church. A survey reported in one Catholic magazine puts it this way: …[F]our out of five Catholic youngsters fall away, defect to other denominations, embrace New Age cults or succumb to unbelief…. Catholic students [were found to be] lower in religious knowledge than any other group, including Protestants,…
A Few Heartwarming Stories from the Field
A short story from Susanna A. A few months ago, I was teaching a poor parish high school on an island in the Philippines. Some of the ‘bad’ kids would repeatedly disrupt my classes, ignore the assignments, refuse to participate, fall asleep in class, and wait for me to write them off. But I refused to do it. Although I…