Author: Fr. Patrick McGuire

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 […]

Greetings once more from a very, very cold Zuni. We wish all our friends everything that is good in 2023. We fell behind in correspondence during December and I apologize for the delay in replying to letters. Thankfully, we have […]

“A Child is born for you, he is Christ the Lord” I remember vividly my visit to Bethlehem in 1999. The splendor of the churches and the excitement among our pilgrims faded as I stared at the tiny spot within […]

Greetings once again from all at St. Anthony’s where ‘time stands still for no man’, as the old saying goes. On a visit to one of the stores in Gallup, I found Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations all on sale […]

As always I send warm greetings from the High Desert, as we near the end of the first quarter of our school year. While I am put away my light weight summer clothes and long sleeved shirts are put back […]

Sometimes I feel all I can do is sit back and scratch my head in wonder! I had our August newsletter all written and ready to send when our printing machine decided to give up the ghost. It took the […]

Thankfully the students are back “bright eyed and bushy tailed”! Well at least full of energy and all say they are happy to be back in school. I suspect their parents are truly delighted also. This has been a long […]

Greetings once more from the high desert and all at St. Anthony’s. I write ‘all’ but essentially I am the only resident on campus. The students are still on vacation, our two sisters from India are still enjoying their well-earned […]

Dear Friends I give thanks to the Lord and to you that we have concluded yet another successful year at St. Anthony’s School. I really need to share with you some of the “goings-on” of these few weeks. As I […]

Greetings from Zuni bathed in May sunshine within and around us. On Sunday I noticed luxuriant grass growing at the roadside. Where the water was found to nourish it is a mystery since there is very little to be found […]

Greetings once again from spring time in Zuni. (Sounds like a good title for a song!) Again, let me apologize for yet another tardy letter this month. While writing to you is always a priority for me, our staff have […]

Greetings once more from the high desert. I apologize for once again being late in sending out our newsletter. We have been snowed under in many senses of that expression, from storms to machines breaking down just when you need […]

Warm greetings from Zuni where we transition between snow and ice to bright sunshine on a daily basis! It adds to the excitement of waking up to a new day with all the blessings that it will bring. Indeed every […]