This is a very special weekend for Carol and me. 50 years ago, on June 19th, we were united in Holy Matrimony. This weekend we are celebrating with our children and 19 grandchildren. The years have gone by too quickly. We now feel our years of age, body aches and memory glitches. Yes, we have had our trials, but all in all we have been very blessed indeed. Watching our children become us and our grandchildren become them is fascinating and sometimes hilarious. When any of us look back on our lives we wonder about the choices made. What might have happened if we had taken a different road, made a different choice concerning the important events of life. When we made the choice of sending our high school age children to Catholic school it was a major consideration. But at the time becoming Catholic was not part of the deliberations at all. We simply came to the conclusion that it was the best possible choice for our children given our life situation. It was a choice informed by prayer and a simple, rational decision to do what was best for our children. Looking back, we never could have imagined just how “right” the decision became in terms of the results. We became Catholic, our children became Catholic, our son-in-law became Catholic, our sons married Catholics, all of our grandchildren are baptized Catholic. I’m here writing this to you as your parish priest because of that decision. It is true, “Eye has not seen, ear has not heard or has it entered the imagination of man what God has prepared…”(1Cor. 2:9) Yours in Christ our Lord, Fr. Sid.