by Michael Hammond | Dec 26, 2021
Foreseeing that other important duties will engage my time and attention next March, I have decided to begin my visit to the Novitiate next week, commencing Monday after the morning lecture. You are aware that our Holy Rule directs me to make this visit four times a...
by Michael Hammond | Dec 22, 2021
I have decided to begin my second visit to the Novitiate next Monday (D.V.). Be pleased to inform the novices of this my intention, and instruct them thoroughly in their duty regarding it. Impress upon their minds the grave obligation they are under of acting and...
by Michael Hammond | Nov 18, 2021
In lieu of a personal interview which I have been deprived of on account of absence from home, when you called last week, I come this morning to speak with you on this subject of religious vocation. But first of all I must tell you how deeply I regret not having seen...
by Michael Hammond | Nov 17, 2021
Miss Tobin has just gone from the Novitiate, and she did not write you previous to her departure, I thought I should notify you as to her whereabouts. She would not go to Montreal and was unwilling to return again to Ottawa, and as there was no suitable situation...
by Michael Hammond | Aug 2, 2021
Among my many unanswered letters on file, I find yours of the 12th inst, and make it my first duty to acknowledge its receipt. My apology for not replying at an earlier date is based on a serious illness which continued for three weeks; Easter Sunday I made my first...
