On Friday, Oct. 22, we celebrate Foundation Day. This is the day that Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and her companions first set foot on soil at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Mother Theodore recorded in her journal about this significant event:“We continued to advance into the thick woods till suddenly Father Buteux stopped the carriage and said, ‘Come down, Sisters, we have arrived.’ What was our astonishment to find ourselves still in the midst of the forest, no village, not even a house in sight. Our guide having given orders to the driver, led us down into a ravine, whence we beheld through the trees on the other side a frame house with a stable and some sheds. ‘There,’ he said, ‘is the house where the postulants have a room, and where you will lodge until your house is ready.’”
To celebrate this special day, the public is invited to attend a Foundation Day Eucharistic Liturgy in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at 11 a.m. (EDT). Come early for during the prelude Schola members will be singing “Hark! On the Windswept Breton Shore.”
Happy Foundation Day!
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