Saint Joachim's School in the 1940s
In My Burg day it seemed that like half of the Burg
were members of either Saint Joachim's or Immaculate
Conception Church. My family church was Immaculate for
most of our Burg days.
5 years ago
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MACK:
AN EXQUIITE PHOTO! LOOK AT THAT HIGH, HIGH, HIGH CEILING! I WOULD BET THAT THOSE WALLS WOULD SURVIVE A #7 RICHTER EARTHQUAKE!
TOM GLOVER
Tom: With Sister Mary Cacophony, those high and mighty walls were necessary.
The Skipper
Hi Tom & Skip.
Thank You Tom:)
I found this in a FB Group.
The high ceiling also caught my
eye. I also thought of when I was
here taking outside pictures and
how great this church and school still look now. I salute whoever
is keeping St Joachim's in such
fine fine shape (even though the
school part ended years ago).
Hi Mac.... Those kids all look like little angels, believe me, with those sisters you better be at your best behaviour. In the 20s I can recall St. Joachim's with Father Palombi and the sisters teaching catachism for our holy communion classes. My grandmother went to early masses almost every day. The church was a major part of their lives in those days.
Sadly, in the interest of energy conservation, most of those old high ceilings are now covered by a sagging and ugly "drop ceiling".
They are still there but at a casual glance ...
Skip
Ralph, on your "best behavior" is putting it mildly. I remember practicing for our First Communion ceremony. I genuflected on my left knee by mistake. As I came up, Sister Matilda "rabbit punched" me on the shoulder and I went down on my right knee immediately! I remember that every time I kneel to this day...
WHAT GREAT LOCAL COLOR.... EVEN GREATER LOCAL HISTORY! NOEL'S STORY ABOUT THE RABBIT PUNCH REMINDED ME OF JUDY (MY WIFE) RECALLING HOW THE NUNS AT ST. ANTHONY'S CARRIED "CRICKETS" AT MASS, AND WITH EACH CLICK OF THE CRICKET, THE KID WOULD STAND, KNEEL, GENUFLECT, ETC. AS A CONVERT, I NEVER EXPERIENCED THE CRICKET, NOR THE RULER ACROSS THE KNUCKLES I HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT OVER THE YEARS.
TOM GLOVER
The Good Sisters wore a rope belt with a series of knots that signified something about the Stations of the Cross. The part of the rope that dangled was about three and a half feet long and ended in a knot.
Some "Better" .. Good Sisters could exceed the sound barrier whipping that knot and could knock a fly off the pencil sharpener.
The Bruised (but better for it) .. Skipper
I can validate what Tom Glover wrote about the clicking of the Sisters in church. This was at Immaculate though. Must have been a universal signal to kneel down or stand up or sit down or be still or be quiet.
With so many classes assembled, the church sounded like a mass of dueling clickers.
OK I wont name her but there was
a Nun over at Immaculate we called
"The Flying Ton" and she welded a
mean ruler lol:)
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