Dear Editor: I enjoyed reading Msgr. Robert Pawson’s beautiful story, his fifty year journey must have been so rewarding and a life for filling adventure (“Reflecting on 50 Years Of Being a Priest,”May 2016 ).

I was born in Bushwick in 1947 and lived a half a block from the school and church. We moved from Bushwick in 1965. My mother had 10 children, nine of us graduated from Fourteen Holy Martyrs.

When we moved to Franklin Square, my mother tried to enroll my younger sister in school at St Catherine of Sienna in Franklin Square. Sadly, she was informed that the school was at full capacity and unable to accept my younger sister. My Mom was heartbroken to realize her last born child, her tenth child would now have to attend public school.

As my mother was exiting St. Catherine’s school that day, she walked into the school principal, Sister Maureen. Sister Maureen noticed my Mom, and called out to her: “Mrs. MCCormack how are you?” My Mom explained that she just had learned about not being able to enroll my sister to St. Catherine’s. Sister Maureen then assured my mother that she would find room for a McCormack. “You had nine children graduate from Fourteen Holy Martyrs and we will see to it that your 10th child will graduate from St. Catherine’s,” she said. Over the years, my Mom would tell that story about running into Sister Maureen, and she always ended the story with “See? There is a God, and He always watches over us.”

PAT MCCORMACK

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