Thursday, October 19, 2006

Happy Feast Day

Today is the feast of St. John de Brébeuf. He was a Jesuit and in the group of the first missionaries to go to Canada.

My first grade teacher was Sr. John Brébeuf. She followed us into second grade to help prepare us for First Holy Communion. I remember her as one of the last to actually teach us the truths of Catholic teaching, before the onslaught of "we don't believe in that anymore" of the late 1960's and beyond.

I thank God that she was there to teach me to read and to prepare my soul to receive its Savior.

2 comments:

Staying in Balance said...

I wonder if the nun with dementia you had was the same one that I had? She wouldn't let any of the kids throw any lunch away. I thought she left after our class, but evidently she stayed part way through the next year.

Staying in Balance said...

Just wanted to add that in thinking about that poor, elderly nun who shouldn't have been brought out of retirement merely because we baby boomers were filling up classrooms, it made me even more thankful for Sr. John, who, as I said, actually taught what the Church taught and did our otherwise very mixed up class a great service.

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