My direct involvement with the school was minimal consisting only of a presentation to the NHCHS Committee during the naming phase. It was exciting to read the announcement from Cardinal DiNardo after the decision was finalized. This school now joins other brick-and-mortar embodiments of the mission of FrassatiUSA, which include Frassati Catholic Academy, a middle school in the Archdiocese of Chicago; the Frassati House, serving the Catholic students at Vanderbilt University; Frassati Hall, the dining hall and commons building for students at Wyoming Catholic College; the Frassati Chapel at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School in Oklahoma, possibly the first academic institution to choose Blessed Pier Giorgio for its patron.
In addition to these structures, of course, are the numerous (too many to list!) fellowships, societies, groups, clubs, etc., that have formed, are forming and will form under the patronage of Blessed Pier Giorgio. And on top of that are the testimonies -- some quite powerful --received on a regular basis. All of these physical, social and spiritual manifestations of the steadily spreading spirituality of Blessed Pier Giorgio are, quite frankly, astounding.
And that's why there is such sweet irony in the timing of the opening of the new school in Texas at a time when the doors of FrassatiUSA are closing. I can't help but ponder the mysterious ways of God as millions have been raised to open a school while the lack of thousands closes a ministry. And yet, there is comfort in the knowledge that many seeds planted are bearing fruit in abundance. So for me, not being a cigar smoker, today is a "two-votive-candle day" -- one for the doors that are opening and one for the doors that are closing.
May Mary Queen of Heaven and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati guide and guard all of the students of Frassati Catholic High School today and always. Verso l'alto!
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Chris....I so vividly remember when you came to meet with the NHCHS Board and introduced us to Blessed Pier Giorgio. From that day forward my life has been forever changed...learning and becoming devoted to this beautiful disciple of Christ. I never had children of my own...but my greatest honor and privilege has been to serve on the founding board of the high school.
"Well done my good and faithful servant"....as you have planted seeds where you know not. You have a legacy for bringing Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati to be such an angel among us. Thank you is so inadequate for your tireless efforts but please take comfort in knowing what a treasure you and "Frassati and Friends" are to the world.
May God's abundance grace you always....
Cornelia England
Happy Eleventy-First Birthday Luciana Frassati! Il mio nuovo migliore amico. Know you’re in Heaven. But did you go straight to Heaven? Not sure? So. Here’s a challenge for you, glorious friend. If you went straight to Heaven on 7 October 2007 send FrassatiUSA a benefactor next month, September 2013, that will support this apostolate financially for the next three years until WYD Krakow 2016. Time for nice words is over. FrassatiUSA is on its last legs. And no one seems to give a hoot. If you didn’t go straight to Heaven, pull the plug on FrassatiUSA on your death day, 7 October, six weeks from now. But regardless of the outcome, thank you Luciana. Because of you I have an ardent love for Blessed Pier Giorgio like so many before me. Blessed John Paul the Great and Blessed Alberto Marvelli, just to name two. I’m eternally grateful. And thank you FrassatiUSA and its only employee, Ms Xtine Wohar, for carrying on Luciana’s work. I am eternally grateful. Come what may. Happy 111st Birthday Luciana! Champion FrassatiUSA's cause.
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