[Magdalen] Mom's 80th birthday

[Joseph Cirou]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 11, 2017 3:30 PM
>To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Mom's 80th birthday
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>Yes. They're also kicking off their 50th-anniversary parish
>celebration, so Mom and I will be members of one of the "founding
>families." I've already wowed the longtime education director at the
>parish (she was there when I was a kid and is still doing it) by
>reminding her of the textbook series we used in first grade (Come to
>the Father, from a series published in Canada). I was a book nerd even
>as a kid and cherished every textbook, especially the ones we were
>given to keep. I also remember the Saturday evening Mass when we first
>used the 1970 Mass rite and the newsprint Monthly Missalettes. It was
>the same Mass at which Father started using a wireless microphone
>system that made him sound like he was in outer space. Intense times!
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>On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> LOL, David! When I read your question I wondered if you were worried about whether they would be talking to each other!
>> I'm assuming his mother's church is RC?
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>Scott R. Knitter
>Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
In 1970 I was TEACHING the Come to the Father Series as a newly ordained priest in St. Mary of the Assumption for Sr Alypia's first grade. I took all the liturgical celebrations. That series remains my favorite Religious Education Series because of its Trinitarian approach and liturgical approach. I think it was written by the Soeurs Disciples du divin Maitre from Quebec and whose store I would visit and purchase vestments every time I visited Montreal.
Sr. Alypia was German and used Montessori in her classroom. She used to state that she had 29 levels in her classroom one for each student. About the same time I became enchanted with Maria von Trapp's Around the Year with the Trapp Family Singers which employed a similar approach to familyliturgy and catechesis. I remain solidly French Canadian and suddeuscher/Austrian to western rite spirituality. 

Hoch soll ehr leben to your mother and parish na mnohaja i blahaja lita!

We are truly soul brothers

Joe Cirou