In an article titled HOPE FOR THE HOMELESS, Sheila Stroup
highlights the work of the Presentation Sisters at Lantern Light Ministries
where Br. Charles works every morning sorting and handing out mail to the many
homeless who have no other home address.
Lantern Light is one of two programs which provide many different
services; the article is a worthwhile read and very true to our experience
these last five years. There is a great
picture of Sr. Vera Butler, PBVM with a local chef, Matt Murphy, who met Sr.
Vera at his restaurant, The Irish House.
Matt Murphy has promised to help with an upcoming fundraiser; did we
mention Sr. Vera and Matt are both Irish-born.
http://www.nola.com/dining/index.ssf/2012/10/matt_murphy_and_other_chopped.html#incart_flyout_living
Br. Bob has completed setting up a workshop on the first
floor, and is now repairing an outside door that was wrenched off its hinges
during hurricane Isaac. Renovations to
the “Map Room” are on hold.
On Columbus Day, Travis Wain came back from a family wedding
in the Albany, NY area; John Petrullo returned from a visit to his folks in
Staten Island. While John had alerted
his father, he surprised his mother.
Tears [of joy we presume] ensued.
Matt Beben was in charge of the 3rd floor for the weekend.
John was in Henderson, Nevada for the week participating in
a School Leaders Retreat for 18 school presidents and principals. The retreat was titled: “At the Service of
the Happenings of Grace,” based on a talk given by Fr. Timothy Radcliffe in
2004 in London Colney, England to province leadership teams from the US, UK,
Eire, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
In John’s work with secondary schools aiming to better serve
students, [Discovery Walks], the primary attention is on how students are
educated. Students are now much less
likely to be treated as sponges, or lectured in a one-size fits all mode. Individual and small group approaches are
made easier by technology, and have always been the goal of good teachers. Students retain more when they do the work
moderated by an alert and well educated teacher serving as mentor to them. Reynolds Price in ARDENT SPIRITS, [Scribner,
2009] a wonderful reflection on his years at Oxford and first years at Duke
University, wrote about one of his teachers: “But he had the born teacher’s gift for identifying ability and
authentic passion in a student and for zeroing in on those incipient qualities
to produce ultimate results.” p. 157
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