With these words my day begins. The fact that God grasps my right hand is such a wonderful image, such a reassuring way to start my day. Both Sisters leave for work later in the morning and work later in the evening. How blessed we are to have five wonderful priests who give an excellent homily every day. When I came to Aquinas five and a half years ago, I had a burning desire to teach the young people of the city, to be love in the heart of the Bronx.
Students gather to chat and finish their homework.
I want to buy a piglet for a child in Haiti. My heart is filled with emotion as this precious young woman teaches me what Christmas is all about, what our Catholic education is all about, what I am all about as I sell piglets to pay for the cost of educating children in Haiti. The piglet is given to a child to raise and when it matures, it is sold and the money is enough to pay for the child's education. Our IHM Congregation is twinned with a native religious community in Haiti and also supports other grassroots projects there in light of the fact that our foundress was Haitian. Morning prayer led by one of the students begins, homeroom ends and my teaching day begins.