Sorry to hear of the closing of your school. My family is from Newfoundland and unfortunately the decline of the Church is equally present there. Watching it in real-time throughout my yearly summer visits is both eerie and deeply saddening. As you’ve touched on here, outside of the spiritual ramifications, the change represents the aging and death of generations of people we hold dear.
Beautifully written Claude, your father, my Uncle was a wonderful man…he would have been so proud of you. You keep his memory alive and the joy of being a graduate of St.Doms prominent.
Thanks very much Claude. Heartfelt and touching, I can relate being the product of an all boys Catholic High School in Detroit, Michigan. What we value as a community says much about the community. Without providing empirical evidence, I can say without hesitation that when we lose a St Dom's it weakens all of us.
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Sorry to hear of the closing of your school. My family is from Newfoundland and unfortunately the decline of the Church is equally present there. Watching it in real-time throughout my yearly summer visits is both eerie and deeply saddening. As you’ve touched on here, outside of the spiritual ramifications, the change represents the aging and death of generations of people we hold dear.
I felt much the same way when the Diocese closed John Bapst in Bangor a few years after I graduated.
Beautifully written Claude, your father, my Uncle was a wonderful man…he would have been so proud of you. You keep his memory alive and the joy of being a graduate of St.Doms prominent.
Thanks very much Claude. Heartfelt and touching, I can relate being the product of an all boys Catholic High School in Detroit, Michigan. What we value as a community says much about the community. Without providing empirical evidence, I can say without hesitation that when we lose a St Dom's it weakens all of us.
That was a tough read Claude, and sadly a not uncommon story.