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Years ago, a very dear friend and mentor of mine was Father Benedict Groeschel, OFM.

I was working on a new Carmelite Order and shared everything with him. In time, mine came to an end, but he started a new order. It was “The Capuchin Friars of the Renewal (CFR)” and is now flourishing beyond the United States of America.

He was a wonderful priest, and I believe one day, will be beatified on his way to sainthood.

—Normandie Kneeland (Sr. Emmanuel of St. Paul of the Cross, OCDS)

About the Author

She was one of seven children, and the little mother, as the oldest girl.

Her fondest memories were of playing on her school’s baseball team. They once played a team from another district that went up to the eleventh inning. With one girl on second base, she hit the ball so hard, it went past two baseball fields in the schoolyard, and onto the roof of the third-story building at the end of the yard. Game over!

She was an artist, and did work repairing and painting many statues, in the churches and Retreat House, for years. From age six, she sang in church choirs. Eventually, she went west from Long Island, New York, where her daughter lived after college. Her son, after marrying, and leaving the U.S. Marine Corps, also settled in California.

She’s presently married to a wonderful man, and they have cats for company. She has been a grandmother and great grandmom. Her mother had Indian ancestry that went back four generations to when that grandfather, a chief, was also the “President of Indian Affairs” in the capital of the U.S.

She lives a quiet life now, in Nevada, and visits family from time to time.