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“I Didn’t See the Gift” 

Four of us Sisters of Notre Dame participated in a day for students at St. Paul Schools in Norwalk to consider priestly and religious vocations . After a panel presentation, a freshman girl talked to the Sister directing the questions to the panel. Looking as if she had made a discovery of something she should have recognized earlier, the girl said, “You Sisters have been here many years. I didn’t recognize what a gift we had. I didn’t see the gift.” Quite a deep realization for a youth!

What gifts are right in front of us, but we don’t notice? 

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  1. St. Paul in Norwalk has a wonderful history with the Sisters of Notre Dame as well as being great. in sports. I’m glad your day there was fruitful.

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