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THE
ORANGE,
GREEN
AND
YELLOW
TRAIN
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In eighty grade Helen decided to take matters into her own hands and make it possible to take that train to the fulfillment of her dreams. She spent the year baby-sitting for her aunt to raise the money she needed to join the convent. In ninth grade she bravely stepped onto the orange, green and yellow train, dry eyed, as everyone else wept. Her Father wanted to know why she had to go so far way. Why couldn't she join a community close by? Helen said, "I don't know why, Daddy. I just do That's where God is calling me?" When she arrived in Dallas, Texas to catch the next train to Chicago, a flood of tears welcomed this new phase of her journey. Her bravery slipped a little, but she forged onward into an unknown future to serve God with her whole heart and soul.
Helen attended Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in the Windy City, Chicago. After graduation she joined the Felician Sisters, first as a postulant, then a novice and finally a professed sister. She received her Bachelor;s and Master's degrees in Elementary Education. She taught in Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. Believe it or not the train returned her to Bremond for the last six years of her teaching career.
Presently, she is doing Pastoral Ministry for the retired and infirm sisters at the Provincial Home in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, and teaching CCD to second graders in Corrales, New Mexico.
Perhaps there is an orange, green and yellow train in your life, beckoning you into a life of service. Pray for guidance from God; he calls in mysterious and often delightful ways.
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