{"id":3533,"date":"2022-02-18T14:52:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2022-02-20T14:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:57:57","slug":"sisters-are-like-our-godmothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/sisters-are-like-our-godmothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisters are like Our Godmothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Above, Father\u00a0Kyle Metzger, principle; Bishop John Folda; Father William Slattery, chaplain; and\u00a0Sisters Jan Ihli, Lorraine Schmaltz and Roselima D\u2019Costa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Catholic Schools Week in Fargo, N.D., was celebrated with children, teachers, clergy, families and sisters at a special Mass on February 3 at Sacred Heart Middle School\/Shanley High School.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the children and feeling all that young energy around me, my mind went back to my high school years and graduation at Shanley High school over 60 years ago, then later teaching in our Catholic schools.\u00a0 Catholic Schools Week always had a \u201cwe are proud to be a Catholic school\u201d feeling to it. Sisters Jan, Roselima, and I, Lorraine, were the only sisters available to join the liturgy and were honored to bring up the gifts.<\/p>\n<p>President Mike \u00a0Hagstrom reminded everyone that this was the 20th year celebrating Catholic schools Mass in this gym. I remember the celebration in the first Shanley that was close to our convent. I wondered where all these children will be and what they will remember 60 years from now.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop John Fulda, the presider, acknowledged us sisters present thanking the Presentation Sisters for beginning the schools. Bishop Fulda concluded his message with saying, \u201cthe sisters are like our godmothers!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above, Father\u00a0Kyle Metzger, principle; Bishop John Folda; Father William Slattery, chaplain; and\u00a0Sisters Jan Ihli, Lorraine Schmaltz and Roselima D\u2019Costa. Catholic Schools Week in Fargo, N.D., was celebrated with children, teachers,<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/sisters-are-like-our-godmothers\/\" title=\"ReadSisters are like Our Godmothers\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3536,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions\/3536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}