Dear Friends,
At this point you are no doubt aware of the fire that seriously damaged St. Malo’s Retreat Center. It is no small thanks I give to God that our students were there last week and not this week. If your student is scheduled to attend the spring Kairos retreats please be aware that we will have to make some changes to the plan as we were hoping to use St. Malo’s.
The fire has led me to consider a strange paradox. No one saved from the fire will live forever; what was lost were items that would long have outlasted them. What perished in the fire was the memorabilia of the Papal visit. What was saved was the personnel who staffed the center. While we grieve the loss of the memorabilia, we rejoice mightily that no lives were lost. This is the brilliance of life; life is so special, so sacred, so awesome that we would gladly suffer the loss of worldly possession to save the life of someone who will themselves someday die. We are blessed with life around us, the life of our students, of our families, of our friends and we are blessed with the knowledge that someday it will all end (at least on earth). So today let us resolve to look at our children and our spouses, our friends and our neighbors and thank God for them, for truly they are the treasures we care about.
When the rebuilding gets underway I will look to see what Holy Family can do to help and let you all know.
God bless,
Timothy Gallic
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