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Monsignor James P. Shea President of the University of Mary
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“If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.” -John 13:14
he University of Mary’s main campus was so very still and quiet this past summer. Some days, working alone in the Benedictine Center for Servant Leadership, I would walk over to our Board Room, named for the great and generous North Dakota entrepreneur, Harold Schafer. The floor-to-ceiling glass of the Board Room opens to the western horizon over the valley of the Missouri River below, vast and crowded with tall cottonwoods. From that vantage, I could just barely see the cross that marks the final resting place of the Sisters of Annunciation Monastery. And then I would turn and gaze for a while upon a lovely, painted icon, hanging there in the
