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Always a responsible and industrious person, Catherine Hayes worked in various jobs as a teen. In her senior year of high school, she asked to enter the School Sisters of Notre Dame. It was the example of the sisters that attracted her. She took the name John Mary. After years of teaching and caring for others, she moved to Ozanam Hall, where she would regale her sisters with music in the day room. We give thanks for her generous spirit among us.
Niigaan Sinclair, a Canadian Indigenous leader, notes that this year, 14 million people – a third of Canada’s population - wore the indigenous orange shirts, walked publicly and celebrated together on Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Over the years, prior to my working here at Villa Assumpta, there were many occasions I would find myself driving down Charles Street, looking over to the left, seeing the chapel and asking, What is that place?
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