God Bless Those Catholic Nuns

Thank You, Sisters!

This web site is respectfully dedicated to all the Catholic Nuns who give their lives to God through teaching.

More specifically, it is here to serve as a source of public recognition and gratitude to the original "Girls in the Hood."

It is hoped that this site will serve as a gathering point for acknowledgments and tributes to the Nuns who gave us their all to make us "know and love God" and to "Make us Good."

America owes a debt of gratitude to this other "Great Generation" of Americans (even though it seems like most of them came from Ireland, Germany, and all the lands of our ancestors.)

Please express your thanks and gratitude to all the Nuns from all the orders who helped shape our ideals and beliefs. They were our surrogate teachers, preachers, parents and coaches.

They taught us to respect our elders, practice self-control, diagram sentences, memorize poems, genuflect in church, say our prayers, pray the rosary, bless ourselves with Holy Water, send money to the Mission and support the Pagan Babies, collect Holy Cards of all the many Saints, reflect about our lives, "what we did, what we should have done, and what we failed to do," and, how to clap erasers and carry their books and bags back to the convent.

My wife and I were educated by the Nuns and we are perpetually grateful. We both remember the "Crowing of the May Queen," singing Immaculate Mary at Mass in May and December, wearing our Scapula and praying the Rosary, and so many other fond memories. We also both remember having classrooms with 50 and 60 kids in one classroom and a soft-spoken Nun calling us to attention and getting the respect of being a "teacher." Those, my friends were the good old days.

My wife attended St. Charles Boromeo grade school and Bishop McGinnis, both in Oklahoma City. Later, she moved to Riverside, California, and we met while planning our Senior Prom when St. Francis High School and Notre Dame High School were having a joint student council meeting and I noticed her sitting there like an angel. I attended St. Thomas Grade School and Notre Dame High School (Riverside, California), and St. Mary's College in Moraga, California. We both graduated from High School in 1966 and grade school in 1962. We have been married since 1970 and we have five children who are still practicing Catholics. We both believe that the Nuns had much to do with our being good spouses and good parents. Our niece is a Nun in France.

Our hope is to have a "Thank You, Sisters" note posted to this website for every Catholic Nun who taught us back in the "good old days" of American Catholic Schools. Every School and every Nun deserves our "Thank You" and "God Bless You."

Please give us any positive recollection and any blessing you wish to share about the Nuns who taught you back in the "good old days." Be sure to mention the name of the Nun, the school, the city, the state, and the year. And, give us your name as well.

Now is the time for all good Catholics to come to the aid of these Nuns... I still write to my 8th grade Nun, Sister Philomena R. Glynn, who is retired in Tacoma, Washington. She was born in Ireland in 1918 and is now 90 years old. God Bless her and all the Franciscans who taught me. I owe them so much!

Please Read Our Poem "Thank You, Sisters" - You will get a kick out of it.

Please Note: This site is here to Thank these Nuns, especially those who taught us back in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. However, every Nun deserves our Thanks.

We want positive and wholesome stories only. That is the least we can do to show our gratitude. Please share any memories you have of your Catholic Education.

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