St. Madeleine Sophie Barat

1106, 2018

Not by Accident

These comments were shared on June 1st during the 133rd Graduation of the Class of 2017-2018 at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, LA. Good evening! Welcome to the Board of Trustees, parents, friends and family and, especially to the Senior class of 2018. This evening, we celebrate a culminating event in your graduation from The Academy of the Sacred Heart, but, more significantly, we celebrate the circuitous journey of each one of you to this solemn moment. None of you have arrived here by accident. Your sitting here has not occurred by some random phenomena, but [...]

802, 2018

Our Sacred Heart Roots

“I don’t really have any roots…,” a young woman recently shared with me while visiting the school. Listening quietly, I suspected that rather than having “no roots,” she was on an archetypal journey to find them. Does it surprise you that she has found her way to New Orleans? For us who live under the canopies of Live Oaks, whose tap roots extend both deep and wide, we value our roots as a source of identity and insight, character and culture. Looking deeply into our roots as a Sacred Heart school community, we discover that on this day, February 7th [...]

1106, 2017

Crossing a threshold…

The graduation ceremonies this year were very special. Our Senior Class and their parents filled the front courtyard of the Rosary campus with a special feeling of love and solemnity that only matched the beauty of the evening. As the sun slowly set, the commencement exercises began: a magical, heart-felt spirit-filled evening for all. I will not forget it... Welcome to the Board of Trustees, parents, friends and family and, especially to the Senior class of 2017. This afternoon, you walked through the arched gates of the Sacre Coeur as a member of the Class of 2017, and as a [...]

911, 2016

“Yes, do be a saint…and, why not?”

What do you think it means to be a saint? Why is a person considered holy? Is it the miracles that they do, or the way that they live each day? What do you think about being a saint? Our own Saint, St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, had some thoughts about becoming a saint. She understood it as how one lives her life; and that is how a person interacts with people and situations each day. Not about miracles, she thought, being a saint is about the things we do each day. Once when she listening to a person who was [...]

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