Friday, 22 August 2025

HOLY CROSS REUNION 2025

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  Had an email from Mike Power.  Mike sends news of The 27th Holy Cross Reunion.  You Crusaders are a grand bunch!  Don't miss out on th...
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Wednesday, 20 August 2025

A REAL "BLAST FROM THE PAST"

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This post definitely is a blast from the past! Today I thought I'd go back a few years to highlight a St Patrick's girl who really h...
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Thursday, 3 July 2025

MORE FROM JOAN AND FRIENDS

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I have heard from our staunch supporter,  Joan REYNOLDS Fogarty, about a recent get together. In early June, the longtime schoolfriends met ...
Tuesday, 1 July 2025

"NUN THE LESS"

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Is there no limit to the talents of our St Patrick's Graduates?  I have just finished reading a book penned by one such graduate. The bo...
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"BETTER THAN THE BEST"

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The Fighting Newfoundlander, Bowring Park Detail from Beaumont Hamel Memorial, Bowring Park Plaque from St Patrick's Convent School, Dea...
Friday, 2 May 2025

ALWAYS A ST PATRICK'S GIRL

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Mary Louise McKay Hurst, RIP I have said many times, "Once a St Patrick's Girl, always a St Patrick's Girl"     Well, I r...
Sunday, 27 April 2025

REST IN PEACE, POPE FRANCIS

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Monday, 31 March 2025

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  FIRST CATHOLIC ORDINATION In the summer of 1816, Bishop Thomas Scallen arrived in St John’s. He was to be the third Bishop of Newfoundland...
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Wednesday, 5 March 2025

SOMETHING TO GIVE UP FOR LENT

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Sunday, 16 February 2025

STEPMOTHER TO HEROES

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I think most of us have heard of the famous Captain Arthur Jackman and his equally famous brother, Captain William Jackman.  Well, did you k...
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Thursday, 13 February 2025

CHRISTINE'S PHOTOS

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B ack last autumn Christine Butler sent me a file of photos from their 2024 get together.  It was really a double celebration.  It marked 50...

CHRISTINE'S PHOTOS - PART 2

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As promised,   I am back with the rest of Christine's photos. I think it was a happy and very memorable day for this special group of fr...
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Tuesday, 28 January 2025

ST JOHN'S FIRST CATHOLIC CHAPEL

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Bishop James Louis O'Donel Rev Dr James Louis O’Donel (later Bishop) arrived in Newfoundland in July 1784.  It is widely believed that t...
Friday, 10 January 2025

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

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Today, 10th January 2025, marks the 169th Anniversary of the founding of St Patrick's Convent.    On 10th January 1856, four Presentatio...
Monday, 6 January 2025

A GOLDEN CHAIN

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"Friendship is a golden chain, the links are friends so dear, And like a rare and precious jewel, it's treasured more each year...
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