Cheers and tears: Sacred Heart celebrates final graduating class
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1. “It’s not about you.”
2. “Exert a different presence in the world.”
3. “Christ promised two things: that your life has meaning, and you will live forever. If you get a better offer, take it.”
Monsignor Joseph T. Donnelly on interfaith relationships
“That’s what it is about. We are all brothers and sisters. We are loved by God. Part of the Catholic ethos is, ‘Oh, nobody’s as good as Catholics.’ I think it’s heretical to even talk about that stuff, that ‘we’ve got it better’ or ‘we’re the one true religion. ”
On the poor
For 12 years, Donnelly has served as chairman of the board of Saint Vincent DePaul Mission in Waterbury, the largest homeless shelter in the state, whose soup kitchen feeds 400 people daily. “He would always say, ‘The best face of the church in Waterbury is St. Vincent de Paul, ” said attorney Jim Brennan, a member of the group’s board of directors.