[cherry]

I grew up in a similar situation, one that I could never duplicate for my own children, unfortunately.....

I remember learning about charity in school...we always had a mission we were sending our little dimes to....

and processions....we were always having processions..( Easter, First Communion, a May procession where we would crown the statue of Mary with flowers...).the Sisters actually had a stash of white fancy dresses for all the girls plus some lacy thing for our heads, and we are talking about many, many dresses.....and the nuns always had a stash of ties for the boys.....

we couldn't use real baseballs or softballs, so what we had to play with....mostly the boys...were these hand sewn "sock balls"....the boys would pitch it like a real baseball and the hitter would swing with his cuffed hand.....

since it was required that we girls always wear a dress, we froze waiting for school to open in the mornings...the bus would let you off and then you would wait.....we were so cold, it became a game for the girls to stand by the nuns front door and run up to them as each one came out so we could go inside to clean the chalk boards,etc...but mostly to get warm....it was quite a contest....

can anyone imagine living that way now?.....

sad but maybe the best years are behind us in this country...

[Clemenza]

No, we just stopped being Polish, Italian, German, Irish, etc. and became Americans like the rest of the population...

[BaBaStooey]

Nothing gets me more excited to be Catholic than when I see groups like the Ann Arbor Dominicans and the Nashville Dominicans. These are vibrant, habit wearing communities of young nuns who are like angels, every single one of them.

The sooner we get these wonderful and amazing young ladies at the front of the classrooms of our Catholic Schools, the better we will all be for it.