If ever there was a need, a pressing need, for the total Christian formation Catholic schools can give, it is today.

Our compassion as a church is not counted simply in numbers. Rather it is measured by the depth of love we show one on one to others. Every individual deserves our love. For in the mystery of the Incarnation, God revealed his love by loving us, redeeming us as though each of us alone existed.

Each time the Spirit leads us to deny our bodies, our appetites, our selfish wills and we reach the goal Christ sets for us, there is always a deep sense of joy.

Almost 800 women religious live and work among us. What a gift they are to the Church of Paterson.