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  Catholic Schools Week Reflection,  February 6, 2019   During Catholic Schools Week last week, I was scrolling through my Facebook feed – Facebook, if you aren’t familiar with it, is like SnapChat but for old people—anyway, I was scrolling, and I saw two posts appropriate for today.   The first was from one of our Catholic grade schools in Louisville.   It had two girls in their uniforms holding a sign that read, “So Glad to Be in Plaid.”   The second was a very appropriate meme for our snowy week.   It read, “Some of y’all never endured an entire winter in a plaid Catholic school skirt and it shows.”   Today, many of you are wearing sweat shirts from your grade schools.   If you went to a Catholic grade school, maybe you are remembering the plaid jumpers and skirts that you wore for many years before coming to Mercy Academy.   Your grade school plaid skirt, and your Mercy plaid immediately identify you as a Catholic school s...

 Published in the JagWire, Mercy Academy's alumni magazine. On September 22, we celebrated the Feast of Our Lady of Mercy, the anniversary of the day in 1827 on which Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy, opened the first “House of Mercy” in Dublin, Ireland.  Mercy Academy observed the day with a scholarship reception, a tribute to three of our Sisters of Mercy, and mass presided by Archbishop Joseph Kurtz. In his homily, the archbishop recalled one of the most beautiful lines from scripture, Psalm 85:11, “Mercy and truth have met each other; justice and peace have kissed.”   Other renditions of the first part of the verse have, “where mercy and truth meet.” That phrase would make a fitting motto for Mercy Academy. Before all of our wonderful academic, athletic, artistic and service programs, we are a “school of mercy.”   A place where we learn to forgive each other, to teach each other, to counsel, correct, and accept,   to be patient when we ...