School is in session (not yet)

In my continuing description of my new parish, Prince of Peace, I wanted to talk a little about our school.

Prince of Peace has a Catholic School for grades K - 8th. The school has 550 students making it one of the largest Catholic schools in the archdiocese. Because of the student population, each grade level has 3 classes except the 8th grade which only has 2 classes. The parish also has a pre-school with 150 children in its program. I've only had a chance to look at the school facilities briefly, but they are very nice. Each class is well designed and conducive to learning. There is a beautiful gymnasium and a very nicely stocked library.

I am looking forward to the beginning of school this fall. I have already had a chance to meet some of the students, however. This past school year, the classes of Prince of Peace chose to correspond with difference seminarians of the archdiocese. By God's Providence, Pattie Jabbour's 5th grade class choose to correspond with me. I received a letter from each student as well as the teacher. They were very friendly and I enjoyed reading each letter. I usually only send a single letter to the teacher in response due to my time constraints of a seminarian. This time, however, I decided to respond to each letter individually. Some of the students had asked about being a priest or religious and I wanted to respond to each of them. If I was going to respond to them it only seemed right to write a letter to each of them, which I did. Well, now I am their Associate Pastor and there is at least 20+ students that know their new associate's favorite food, TV show, movie, animal, etc.

My family and I will be going to Buffalo, Minnesota this weekend so I will not be posting again until Monday evening. My mom is from the Land of Lakes and so most of her family still live up there. Until next time...God bless.

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