Posted on November 18, 2009 by Sisters of the Holy Family
By Sister Geraldine Garbarino
When you experience a loss, especially at the death of someone close to you, you feel numbness. You cannot believe the person is really gone. I have experienced the loss of my father, mother, three brothers and three sisters. For some of the losses I was there preceding death, making it a [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2009 by Sisters of the Holy Family
Sister Geraldine Garbarino
One of my special days in the week is Monday. I travel ten miles to Ardenwood Regional Park in Fremont. The park is closed to visitors on Mondays, so only workers and volunteers are in the Park.
Entering the long driveway on either side, there is plowed ground where vegetables are grown, some of [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2009 by Sisters of the Holy Family
By Sr. Geraldine Garbarino
In 1996 the San Francisco mint made a new supply of pennies. Golden Penny was one of them. He and the newcomers were packed with 49 others in a paper roll to be sent to the Bank of America. This was Penny’s home for about a month, when one day he was [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2009 by Sisters of the Holy Family
(Based on a True Story) By Sister Geraldine Garbarino
In 1945, my first experience at our vacation home in Tiburon took place. Being young sisters we were driven to Tiburon for a two-week stay. The house was a large wooden white structure with a wide porch surrounded by benches. It had spacious grounds, fruit trees, and a [...]
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Posted on September 12, 2009 by Sisters of the Holy Family
Sr. Geraldine Garbarino
Reminiscing on the paces we taught religion to the public school children is very interesting. I love to ponder on the different environments in which we held our classes. This is one of the reasons loved my ministry.
My first class was in a Catholic school classroom. It was taught on a Saturday It [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2009 by Sisters of the Holy Family
My God is not a god of perfection.
She is a God of Harmony.
For if only he is perfect, where do I fit in?
The God I know has created a world struggling for balance.
A World in relationship with itself -
All the creations and forces within it,
hunger and plenty,
need and caring,
selfishness and vision,
darkness and light,
cold and warmth [...]
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