QUEEN OF ANGELS HIGH ACHIEVER
Congratulations to Carolyn Corrado, who was honored as salutatorian of the Class of 2004 at St. Scholastica Academy.
SACRED HEART BROTHER: WAY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
“Sometimes people ask how I can sacrifice so much, and I know what they mean, but I honestly don’t feel like I have sacrificed much”, explained 26-year-old Sacred Heart Brother Patrick Cousins. “The opportunities I have had for personal development, to travel and study, to work with the poor across the country, and to live with men of tremendous wisdom and experience more than make up for not having a wife or children.”
Having been educated by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in high school, Patrick knew they worked to make a difference, but without fanfare. Although he was not seriously thinking about religious life at the time, he was looking for some way of living a life where he could make a difference in the world.
“Since I never considered myself ‘holy’ or even particularly ‘religious’, I did not imagine myself as a candidate for the religious life,” said Patrick. “I didn’t have a clue about my future. My daily prayer became, “God, I don’t know what I’ m supposed to do, so let me do whatever it is you want.”
After graduating at the head of his class from St. Stanislaus High School in 1995, Pat started college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge on a ROTC scholarship, studying mechanical engineering. It did not take him long to realize he was unsatisfied with his life.
Patrick moved back to the South and started at Tulane. He also started to spend more time with the Sacred Heart Brothers. He entered in August of 1996, at age 18, with two other young men. He started his third semester at Loyola University in New Orleans liked the candidacy program and being with others his age who were dealing with the same questions in their lives.
After three years of initial formation, which included, he said, “Six incredible months in Africa as a novice,” he made vows in August 1999. Two years later, the boy from Mississippi graduated with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from Loyola and moved to Baton Rouge to begin teaching freshman and sophomore religion at a Catholic High School.
When asked what advice he would give to other young people, he offered, “at my age, working with religious and laity across the country, dreaming about the very future of the church and the world, it’s like I have been entrusted with a prophetic call. It can be scary to think so big, like Jeremiah’s ‘Lord, I am too young.’ But the Brothers have formed me, in a way, to a future that has not yet been dreamt. So I would say to young people, ‘Think broadly and dare to ask hard questions about what we claim to be about.’”
MARKET DAYS CRAFTERS NEEDED
The seventh Annual Lincoln Square Market Days is seeking artists and crafters. For details and an application, contact Melissa at 773-728-3890 or email Melissa@lincolnsquare.org. The Market Days will be Friday to Sunday, July 16 to 18 on Lincoln Avenue from Lawrence Avenue stretching three blocks to Sunnyside. The cost is $75 for three days. Deadline is July 1.
