St. Gertrude Catholic Parish

School is in full swing. We have many new faces among the children, a stable and able faculty, two principled principals, high spirits, high maintenance, and high tuition. We all wish we could service all who want to be here at NCA but you can’t always get what you want. But if you try real hard ¦Labor Day. A chance to talk over what we have learned from the various jobs we have had. How work has been part of our own evolution. How the spirit enters into the various aspects of work, not just the moral equation about an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay. How we as Christians have to be attuned to a higher level of morality. How the product must enrich the whole human community. How the cooperation and collaboration must ennoble the whole human spirit. How the whole world and the whole human family must be part of the equation. How the work of our hands, of our senses, of our minds, and of our hearts build the Kingdom and develop our souls while bringing us to communion. Labor Day.

Lots to look forward to:
Labor Day Mass at10am, Monday, September 5
Back to school Mass at the middle school (St. Ita’s campus), Tuesday, September 6
Pax Christi in the social hall, September 10
Gym Mass begins again at 10:30, Sunday, September 11
Book Club (The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad), September 12
Back to school assembly on Wednesday, September 13
And don’t forget the Tobin Play, Saturday, September 24, and WOW on September 25.

Have you noticed that there has not been any excessive boasting about the White Sox in this space, no derogatory comparisons being made between the Sox and the Cubs, no cheap bragging about who owns the city, no disdainful arrogance, no pride-filled rhetoric about the White Sox? And the reason: True Sox fans expect titanic disasters.

WK

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