ST PAUL S POST. Our birthday girls this week are:

Transcription

1 ST PAUL S POST St Paul s Province Weekly Newsletter: 58 4 December 2017 Our birthday girls this week are: Mary Curtin Angelus Cleary 6 December 8 December Thou wilt know him when he comes, Not by any din of drums, Nor by the vantage of his airs, Nor by anything he wears, Neither by his crown, nor by his gown. But his coming known shall be by the holy harmoney his presence makes in thee. Anon. English (14th Century) The Advent calendar made by Carers in Lytham with the help of the Knitting Club. Sr Edith won the first draw.

2 Our Sisters: Give thanks for: for: Sheila McNally,...who is going into hospital for a hip replacement on 8 December; Monica Higgins; Kathleen Shelly; Catherine Laboure; Julie McGing; Agnes Marie. Edith Culliton, who is progressing well in Lytham. Relatives of Sisters: Marguerita s brother-in-law, Brendan; Damian s brother, Brendan and her sister, Betty; Anna Hainey s brother, Danny; Francis niece-in-law, Val McCartan and Francis brother, Austin; Catherine Kealy s brother-in-law, Tony; Sr Sheila McNally s brother, John; Carmel Gorman s sister-in-law, Mary; Anna & Margaret Rose, with Maura Burns and Katrina Hartin The PLT enjoyed meeting with the CLT in Drumalis and experienced the usual Drumalis hospitality.

3 raised 567 for the St Vincent de Paul Society

4 Winter in sunny Arizona! I am very grateful to Sr Therese O'Regan and all PLT members for making it possible for me to visit my nephew Conor, Jackie his wife and their three children Fionnula, Ciara and Seamus, in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. It was a wonderful privilege. Many thanks. The whole of the area of Arizona is in the Sonoran desert - what a desert! It was winter time when I was there in November, but the temperature each day was around 28 or 29 degrees centigrade. The ground is sandy, but because of underground irrigation systems they get water many thousands of miles away from the Rocky Mountains, and the Colorado River. My first impression of Arizona, was like the wild west films we used to see. The Indian-American Reservation was only about 10 minutes drive from my nephew's house, but the ordinary American is not allowed to enter! The houses in Scottsdale are all the same pale brown colour, but every house is uniquely built in a one acre patch. Some of the houses are very beautiful. Scottsdale is in a valley. It is not a town. So when you go to a store, you take a car ride of about 20 or 25 minutes or more. There are plenty of good roads and highways, not like the desert in Botswana. My nephew and his wife could not do enough for me. They brought me to the Grand Canyon, which is so beautiful and so huge, and to the Red Rock, which I personally loved above all. The red rocks were carved by the elements, and to me looked like castles that had been carved out of the Red Mountains. Sr Annie tackled the nearest trail walk extremely difficult! (to be continued) Annie McCambridge Sunset from Conor s House and plants in his garden.

5 Srs Christine and Eily May attended the event: Sr Christine as a former student and present member of the Hall Advisory Committee; Sr Eily May as a former warden. For Sr Eily May in particular, it was a joyous and memorable reunion with her former students. After time for meeting up with old friends and contemporaries, and tours of the Hall for those who wished, we gathered in the Chapel for afternoon tea. Here the present warden, Katie Urnevitch, welcomed us formally and then introduced her senior tutor, Helen Kilburn, to say a few words. To our surprise and delight, Helen On Saturday, November 6, St Gabriel s held a reunion for its former students. About 70 attended, many travelling quite a distance and a significant number from earlier decades from the 1950 s on. The oldest alumna was Pat Cast (O Gara), Sr Cecily Mary s sisterin-law. Pat could also link up with the beginnings of the Hall, in that her mother took up residence in the Hall in gave a very moving account of the history of the Hall and the Sisters part in it. (A slightly shortened version of her speech accompanies the Newsletter as an attachment, for those who would like to see what a postgraduate student today makes of it all!) We then enjoyed our afternoon tea and more conversations. Finally there was a spontaneous vote of thanks from one of the former students to Katie and all the organisers, for a very happy and successful event. In this we all of us most sincerely concurred. Christine