Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico
Greetings once more from the High Desert and all of our school community at St. Anthony’s. Happily the spring sun shines on us although winter winds still grace us from the mountains of Colorado. Hail, rain or snow… Our young […]
Greetings from all of us at St. Anthony’s, with apologies for my tardiness in writing. Perhaps it is simply the effects of age, but 2025 seems to be passing more rapidly than ever. Or perhaps it just seems that way […]
“Let’s go to Bethlehem” It’s wonderful how a seemingly simple phrase in the Gospel can stop and make one think. The words of the shepherds after the angels left them, caught my heart this year. They heard the angelic message […]
As we approach Thanksgiving, winter is wrapping us in her snowy mantel turning our pueblo in a wonderland of green trees, gleaming white leaves and of course doubled laughter from our young people. As my old bones cry out for […]
Greetings once more from the High Desert, where chilly mornings give way to sweltering afternoons as the mother nature changes to her Autumn attire.Looking back over the last few weeks I find the school, like Mother Nature, getting ready for […]
Greeting once more from all at St. Anthony’s. I apologize for not writing to you during July. The staff asked me about the July letter and all I could say is “what will I write about, we only have holes […]
Greetings once more from the High Desert, living up to its name as temperatures rise under the cloudless blue sky. Zuni St Anthony School – The 2024 Graduates I delayed a little in sending out this month’s letter so as […]
There is an old saying: “you win some and you lose some.” The adage is reverberating through my thoughts as I consider the last couple of weeks at St. Anthony’s. But let’s begin with the winnings that must never be […]
Greetings once more from the high desert of New Mexico! Although “desert” seems somewhat inappropriate for a landscape covered in snow. In fact, it looks as if we might have a white Easter! Hail, rain or snow, St. Anthony’s continues […]
Greetings from the high desert where winter is slowly changing into spring despite some very cold evenings and nights. Although we have been through a rough winter, we are grateful for the snow and rain. We all know how necessary […]
By the time this letter reaches you, 2024 will be well underway, but I think it is never too late to wish friends a Happy New Year. I pray that the year will be blessed for all of us. Since […]
Now that we have completed our centenary celebrations of the Mission and school, our hearts can turn to a celebration of Christmas. But a casual remark passed by our bishop at the centenary Mass of thanksgiving, linger in my thoughts […]
Greetings once again from all of us at St. Anthony’s! First of all, I want to send my most heartfelt greetings and best wishes to you during this month of Thanksgiving. Many years ago in Scotland, a friend of mine […]
Fall greetings from all of us at St. Anthony’s!I apologize once again for my delay in writing. Our monthly newsletter is always a priority, however, time constraints and the daily demands of keeping our “heads above water” sometimes restrict what […]
Greetings once more from St. Anthony – 101. No, we haven’t changed our name. We just wanted to share with you our excitement that, as school resumed a couple of weeks ago, we entered into the one hundred and first […]
A Century of Service! One school year has ended and I am busy preparing the campus for next year’s crop of students. The work continues in an unending cycle of forming generations to build fruitful lives. I have already written […]
Warm greetings once again from the sun-baked high desert, where trees are blooming, birds are singing, and weeds are growing at an alarming rate. There is a strangely tense but lighthearted mood in the School this month as we rapidly […]
Easter Greetings from all at St. Anthony’s. I hope that you found the Easter celebrations as wonderful and joyous as we did in Zuni. As I mentioned in my last letter March was a time of preparation and anticipation at […]
Greetings once more from all at St. Anthony’s. I hope that the old adage about March entering like a lion and leaving like at lamb holds true. The cold, snow and icy winds have taken their toll on the community […]
Warm greetings once more from all at St. Anthony’s. I say “warm” in the hope that friendly words will compensate a little for the chilling wind and snow that we have being experiencing. Below freezing temperatures, early morning followed by […]