As summer winds to a close and the first day of school approaches these are some things you can do that will facilitate the start of a new school year. Take a walk through the school in advance of the first day of school. If your child is going to the same school but will be in a different part of the building, make sure they know where they are going and where key places are that will be part of their educational environment. Visit the library, cafeteria, principal’s office, and gym.If po...

We live in a much-too-hasty age. There is little or no time to process what happens to us each day. This is even true in religious life. I remember the images I had as a young girl of what it must be like to be a nun: hours of silence, of prayer, of walking on the hillsides. They were, no doubt, images I had seen in vocations ads or in movies. Needless to say, that certainly didn't materialize!