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Mary Margaret Schroeder with her students

Waiting Courageously

As an ACE Ambassador, you commit to ACE a full year before you ever step into a classroom as a Teaching Fellow. During that year, friends accept post-graduate jobs, professors...

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Students and sister (left) holding up a sign that reads, "Thank You for the Gift of Catholic Education."

The Beauty of Catholic Schools Week

When I saw that I would be writing a blog post for Catholic Schools Week, I knew right away that I wanted to write about community. Community is the second...

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Frassati_Twin Cities, Cohort 6

A Meditation on Purpose

Purpose. Calling. Fulfillment. Mission. Whichever word you use, I believe this aspect of one’s life is perhaps the most important there is. When one discovers their purpose, it seems that...

Los Angeles Hike Photo

Here as in Heaven

I regret to say that in my childhood, few paths were less appealing than the one to sainthood. Sainthood, to an 8-year-old learning from Sunday School lessons and black and...

Chicago Frassati Community, Cohort 5

What Comes Next?

How often do we encounter the narrative that we must pay our dues to a major accounting firm, consulting company, or bank by spending “just a couple of years” working...