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I don't know what made me think of Queen of Angels this morning. I am home recovering from neck surgery, and the event just came to mind, although I remembered neither the school name or the date of the event. After reading up a bit online memory started to kick in. I was school in parochial schools in Houston, TX, back in the day whentuition was $8 per family (regardless of the # of children), with family ties to Chicago (My grandparents are also buried at Queen of Heaven.)I know for a certainty that no teaching nun was ever the same again. Imagine the dedicated women who had given up everything for God and service to other women's children in American parichial schools, and how deeply they would have felt this devastating loss. And the Church community? How do you minister to all these families at the same time? Indeed, how could any family survive such sorrow? I can only pray that those who survived physically, were also able to heal emotionally, and maintain the Faith in order to rejoin these angels when the time comes. Perhaps the best memorial we can give to these children, and these courageous nuns, is to try to make parochial education more affordable again in order to strengthen and propogate the Faith.
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