Our two students, Juan and Joseph Marie, are finishing up their fall semester in Covington and plan to move back into the house of studies before Christmas. Student Master, Fr. Sam, plans to move back into the New Orleans house tomorrow. We have electricity and drinkable water. I'm not sure about internet access, which has been spotty even in Covington across the lake. We were fortunate to have received little water damage to the house. The water flooded the parking lot outside, and we lost the two cars left there in the evacuation, but only one room of our house suffered bad water damage due to a window breaking during the storm. The water came up to the top step of our porch and spared the first floor.

Our sister in Carmel, Marion Stearns OCDS, was finally laid to rest on December 3. What a terrible ordeal this has been for her family. Marion drowned in her home in Chalmette on August 29, and her body was finally delivered to her family on the last of November. Seven members of her Carmelite community said the rosary and litany of Loretto at her wake and sang the Salve Regina at her funeral. God bless her husband and children for having to endure such a drawn out ordeal to bury their loved one.