National Nursing Assistants Week was June 18th, 2020 through June 24th, 2020. We are always extremely grateful for the comfort and care our Nursing Assistants/Aides provide in our convents, but never more so then in recent months as they have assisted us through the pandemic. Nursing assistants take on countless tasks and wear many hats. They improve the quality of…
Reflection Freedom isn’t doing whatever you want. There is no true freedom except in the service of what is good and just.* Justice is all about strong, positive relationships between individual people and communities. Choices that show love for others — especially those who are most vulnerable — are instances of real freedom. On the other hand, choices rooted in a desire…
Sister Kathy Schlueter (pictured here directing the Our Lady of the Hamptons Regional Catholic School Choir) has been the principal of Our Lady of the Hamptons for 32 years. Prior to OLH, Sister Kathy worked for four years at St. Patrick School in Smithtown teaching first and fourth graders, and then spent 16 years at Sacred Heart Academy teaching music, drama,…
As schools and programs opened in September 2019 they had no idea that the academic year would need to be completed virtually. The fact that they all switched over rather quickly to the virtual realm in order to complete the school year is something to celebrate. In recent weeks the CSJ sponsored high schools and The Learning Connection have…
Reflection We have become skilled at avoiding practically all interaction with those with whom we disagree…we have the ingredients for a culture polarized by the perception that we are good and virtuous, while they are inhuman and evil. The law professor John A. Powell…calls this “othering” and has shown that it leads to hatred and discrimination. But on the odd…
Reflection Whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward. Matthew 10:37-42 The significant acts in life happen when we help where we can. They happen in the daily interactions with others where we show compassion. They are in the…
Reflection Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement…get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed. Abraham Joshua Heschel Prayer The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the…
Reflection The prophet does more than denounce evil. Instead, prophetic spirituality envisions a world in which justice and equality, peace and community are the norm rather than the struggle. It is the prophet of our time who leads the way to the development of an alternative vision of life by imagining a new normal. Today’s prophets prepare for the reconstruction…
Reflection A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a…
Feast of John the Baptist Reflection John the Baptist opened the way to Jesus. He spoke to the desire for human transformation, to the idea that a relationship with God had to be based in more than membership in a specific tribe, race or nation. It had to be lived. His rite of baptism symbolized this rebirth. John stood between…