MKLM Anniversary/Monday

Actually this was the day after the anniversary weekend. I had planned two days post-anniversary to visit friends at Maryknoll but things didn’t work out that way.

At breakfast I felt a little soreness in my throat and wondered if I was coming down with something, and then learned that one of the people at the weekend’s anniversary festivities had tested positive for Covid on returning home and called back to New York to tell us.

I canceled my plans to visit the elderly guys at the seminary building and basically stayed in my room all day except for visiting some offices after breakfast before the Covid scare. But by lunch time my throat soreness was gone and with the negative test, I’m declaring myself virus free and getting on with life till I leave after lunch tomorrow.

This is the front of the main building at the Sisters Center. I had the room circled, a VIP visitor suite.

Srs. Ann Sherman and Regina Pellicore, in the back of the kitchen, as we were heading up to the treasury department.

Srs. Luise Ahrens and Regina, both former Cambodia Maryknollers. Luise now oversees the education of all the sisters, especially making sure that sisters from less developed countries are able to get university degrees in the US.
Finally we got up to the treasury department where Renato Abella works. An old friend, he was formerly with the Maryknoll Lay Missioners but moved to the Maryknoll Sisters when the lay missioners reorganized.
This is the main chapel of the sisters, with monastic-style seating.

Tonight I had dinner with another old friend, also a former Maryknoller in Cambodia, Adel O Regan. It was good to catch up on all the people we have both known.