Children of the Prairie
St. Joseph's Quarterly Newsletter

Fr. Greg, Chaplain

Greetings from St. Joseph's Indian School!

We had our first sightings of snow flurries in October. While those flurries also made our hearts flurry with joy and excitement, after months and months of more and more snow … well, the flurrying begins to diminish.

Which is why at this time of the year, we take deep breaths on mornings when the sun is shining and spring shows its prayed for face. We feel blessed in the renewal and rebirth that’s beginning, just as it always does. The darkness never lasts.

In this edition of the Children of the Prairie newsletter that you hold in your hands, we want to tell you about another event at our school which brings that same sense of renewal. It’s called the Annual Sobriety Walk. As you know, poverty creates many negative circumstances, some of which involve the abuse of drugs and alcohol. That’s why it’s so important we help our students toward a path to a brighter future.

“For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures … but when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit.”

May this spring season fill you with a sense of rebirth and renewal, as well.

Peace and Blessings,

Fr. Greg Schill, SCJ
Chaplain

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