Spring in New England is often an invitation for a walking break. A walk on the campus of Holy Apostles is like a video of the mission of the college/seminary. I made such a walk last week. What did I see? At one of the tables in the dining room were two Vietnamese Sisters with one American seminarian practicing the correct pronunciation of the Psalms. At another was a Spanish speaker helping an English speaker prepare to lector at the next day’s Spanish Mass. In the adjoining room there was a young lay student helping to make corrections on a paper of a student whose first language is not English. The kitchen crew was preparing the next meal. I went outside and encountered a seminarian on his way up the hill to the dorm having just finished an afternoon run. A few people were in the chapel, a few others made a quick stop as they passed by. One class was meeting in the library; a number of students were quietly studying there. Other professors and students were in their respective classrooms. That walk put hope in my heart as I saw the future of the Church in the seminarians, religious sisters and lay faithful praying together, working together, studying together preparing for assuming their places as leaders for the new evangelization.
Sister Mary Anne Linder, F.S.E
