Volume 3, Issue 9: September 2011
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Greetings!

 

Growing up Catholic in the Forties

 

I grew up in a parish that is not well known today, but in my day was well known and helped form the foundation of my present life.
I had two good parents who nourished my faith. My mother introduced me-as she did my two older brothers-to church as a youngster. 

I was further nourished by my good teachers at St. Vincent de Paul School which was directly behind St. Vincent de Paul Church. We had two teachers who were also religious sisters: one in Grade 1, and one in Grade 8, Sister Adele, who was also the principal.

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IN THIS ISSUE
Giving made easy
Hard work and giving
Decisions, decisions, decisions

Giving made easy 


You can now support the work of Canada's missionaries without leaving your computer!
 
1.  You can now make online donations that support their efforts easily and securely - without the need to re-enter information for future donations.  
 
2.  You can choose to make one-time or monthly donations that will help them proclaim the Gospel in our mission communities. 
 
3.  You can make monthly donations through your credit or debit card - secure in the knowledge that your information is ... secure!   
 
4. Best of all, when you make a one-time donation, you'll automatically receive an e-receipt for your gift. 
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Hard work and giving
 
BY PATRIA RIVERA   
 

 

Leonard GillisLeonard Gillis, a Catholic Missions In Canada legacy donor, came to know about the urgent needs of the Canadian missions when he read an appeal from two missionaries from Nigeria serving in missions north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Read more... .

 

Decisions, decisions, decisions

BY SISTER MARGARET SUNTJENS, D.W.
Sister SuntjensIn 1948, at the very end of November, three Sisters of the Daughters of Wisdom arrived at the new Atikameg Indian Day School. This was being built that summer in the forested area of Alberta, north of Lesser Slave Lake. Its opening was delayed simply because the school building was not yet finished..

It worried me that even at that late date, it was still not complete. School was to open at 9:00 a.m. What did that mean to the parents living in that area?  Read more 
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