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characters who witnessed Jesus’ Passion. To watch the 8-hour play we entered this famous open stage ‘auditorium’ at 8:00 a.m., had a noon Intermission from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m., and continued watching the play from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. This memorable Passion play has been held every ten years because the deadly plague prompted the people to promise God that they would portray the Passion every 10 years if they were spared the plague again. (This Passion Play was been performed again in 2010 in its 376-year history, with the next production planned for 2020.) “Before returning home we spent some time in Lucerne, Switzerland, and the closing experience of our European trip was a ride of several hours on Lake Lucerne, which is embedded within an impressive mountain panorama of trees, etc. We enjoyed the beauty of the city before moving onto Paris where we stayed overnight before taking our return flight home to New York. There in New York we spent some time sightseeing. One of the highlights was the opportunity to go to the top of the Empire State building--using four elevators! “From New York we took a train to Washington, D.C. We visited the U. S. Capitol, Mount Vernon, and other sites. We had an overnight stay with our Sisters at the Marist Seminary before leaving for home the next morning. I returned to Waukesha for five more years, moving from teaching in the lower grades to Grades 7-8. “More teaching followed. My next assignments were to: Oshkosh,
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Here I am to pray for the Sisters in Greenwood, MS and for our Community in general.
Sister George Ann with her nephew, Father George Schommer, OP.
“My hobbies are doing some crocheting, but especially, I find reading a favorite pastime. At the age of 95 years, my family held a birthday party for me, that was graciously suggested by my Dominican nephew, Father George Schommer, O.P., who presently is pastor at St. Dominic Parish, Washington, DC.”
Hilbert, Green Bay, Kellnersville, WI, and Ironwood and Escanaba, MI. During my summer vacations I was assigned to work for my college degree at St. Norbert College, where after nine summers, I graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. “At one point, I was asked to take the position of Librarian at Sacred Heart Seminary, Oneida, WI. After four years all the Sisters employed at the Seminary were withdrawn. From there I was assigned to the High School Library in Ironwood, MI, for nine years. Next, I was sent to be Librarian in Escanaba, MI, where after two years I received a surprise phone call asking me to start a library in Yuma, AZ. After 12 years building up a library there, I was sent for a year to the “cradle of our community” at Clarks Mills, WI. “My next assignment was to Holy Family Convent where I assisted Sister Eudelma Junk, working in our Convent library until I reached retirement age at 91 years. I then entered our St.. Rita’s Infirmary, where I’ve been for four years.
Kekaha Students Enjoy Fall Leaves Sister Monica Martin’s stepmom, Ginny, dried some fall leaves and shipped them to her in Hawaii. On Halloween, her 3/4 graders went to the kindergarten classroom to do a science lesson and a leaf-rubbing art project with them. Sister Monica found it “so much fun to watch the children ooh and ah over the leaves!” A couple interesting observations several of them made were, "Ew, they smell bad," and "they smell like something that's decaying." Sister immediately grabbed a leaf and inhaled a wonderfully nostalgic scent. She told them, "This is what fall/autumn smells like if you go to the northern states on the mainland!"
From Habitually Speaking by Sister Monica http://habituallyspeaking.blogspot.com/