February 17, 2010
Dear Mr. President,
Thank you very much for reading this letter. I respect the fact that you take your time to read the letters of concerned persons and give them some thought. The education provided by public school is a subject that has been on my mind, and I think it needs some [...]
February 11, 2010
Dear Mr. President,
I am a nineteen-year-old citizen who is imploring you to note an issue that is holding back this great nation from reaching our fullest potential. I can’t tell you how glad I am to hear you say that you look at man-made climate change with scientific consideration. With scientific backing, one [...]
February 10, 2010
Dear Mr. President,
I am an American girl and a citizen, who, like you, believes our country is wonderful. I also feel that it needs some changes. I really respect the fact that you are a president who believes in being a man of the people, and you want to make America better for [...]
Thoughts on Christmas from Brother Francis
[I realize that the Christmas season just ended; but one of our Sisters gathered these quotes, and I don't wish to wait another year to share them with you. Sr. M. Ph.]
Dominus dixit ad me, Filius meus es tu; ego hodie genui te. The Lord said to my Lord, Thou [...]
My high school American History II class just finished the Spanish American War and were sailing into the twentieth century when discussions came up surrounding President Obama’s State of the Union address. Upon their own initiative, the students are working on letters to President Obama expressing their concerns for the future of our country.
Some food [...]
I recently came across John Cornwall’s Hitler’s Pope, published in 1999 by Viking Press. Just reading the Prologue and the first chapter was enough to convince me that this was not the type of solid research I was looking for. Not only was the author’s bias obvious, but his facts were more than dubious. In [...]
Congratulations to Marc Doucette (grade seven) for winning the school level of the 2010 National Geographic Bee! Ten IHM students from grades four through eight competed at this level. Marc then took a written test to see if he qualifies for the state level. He did! and will be competing at the NH State Finals [...]
I received the following note in an email from an IHM friend:
Dear Sister, I found a very good breakfast item that your school and the school kid’s parents may be interested in. If you serve it at school or kids eat it at home it is inexpensive, good and nutritious.
The Sisters are taking evening classes in Philosophy, going through Brother Francis’ Philosophia Perrenis lectures on tape with the assistance of a tutor-at-a-distance (using a speaker phone). We are almost to the end of the course on Cosmology, and there is never a lecture that doesn’t touch on something we can use in the classroom. [...]
Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers [continued]
(from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. Pius Franciscus, O.M.Cap., 1926)
On the Christian Training of Children
Chapter X. – Maxims and Sayings Which a Mother Might Teach Her Child.
Pithy, pregnant maxims and sayings are wise thoughts expressed tersely and strikingly. Watchwords we might [...]
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