A BELATED HAPPY EASTER!
School is out for two months. The older kids are working to make money for clothes, etc; the younger children who have willing relatives went home for a couple weeks. visiting for the first time since they joined us. Some of …
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!
One of the greater high feast days the kids enjoy is St. Patrick’s Day! So, on March 17, the kids will have their annual party, and we will have a wee drop set aside for the staff afterwards. The kids too…
HAPPY NEW YEAR (year of the snake)!
February has been quite a month, what with Chinese New year, and Valentine’s day! Girls were giving flowers to their favorite boys, and getting really angry at the staff for kidding them about it later. Obviously,…
I am sorry for being so late in sending out the January newsletter! It is a lovely month; great cool weather here in Thailand, but also brings with it year-end reports, and also a scramble to try to raise funds by appealing to foundations and grant a…
Merry Christmas!IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Years ago, my father, Johnny Bill Shea, a retired Wisconsin Aberdeen Angus cattle farmer, laboriously did the banking and scanning of checks for me. When pa was dying and could not do it, my brother Jack took the task until his eye…
News from Sarnelli House!
Hello from Sarnelli House!
I am back after 5 ½ months of home leave. I had all my medical stuff done, and it was great to see family, friends, and benefactors. But it was really wonderful to return. The morning after Fr. Chuck and I re…
The beginning and middle of August
was more dry and dusty than wet and rainy which proved a worry for Sarnelli House’s
thousands of rice seedlings that have already been planted on Jomp’s Farm.
However by the end of August the rain became more fre…
July saw the rice planting completed on Jomp’s
Farm and the other rice paddies ahead of time with the help of the 2 rice
planting machines. To the great delight of the teenage girls all the weekends in
July were not spent out in the mud and the r…
July saw the rice planting completed on Jomp’s
Farm and the other rice paddies ahead of time with the help of the 2 rice
planting machines. To the great delight of the teenage girls all the weekends in
July were not spent out in the mud and the r…
HI FROM DUNDEE, WISCONSIN!
I have been back stateside for two months, and I have seen more damn doctors during this time than I ever met in my life! I think my medical expenses will put all their kids through college. I needed a new bridge, wh…
Greetings from Sarnelli House!
This month, I am taking over from Fr Mike Shea to write you the monthly update since he is away in USA visiting his sick sister and hunting for shekels for the kids. Fr Bird and Brother Keng are taking a one-month sp…
Hi from Dundee, Wisconsin!
Right now, I am writing this letter from Wisconsin, U.S.A. Cow country! A cousin of mine, with whom I grew up, has serious breast cancer, with heart touble from the chemo, and the cancer has metasticized some…
Happy New Year To All!
Thailand has three new years; the regular one on Jan. 1; Chinese New Year which lasts at least three days around the beginning of February (depending on the moon) and Thai New Year, which is April 13-16…
HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY TO
ALL!
A year ago, I had O’Connor cousins here and they brought corn beef to cook with cabbage for all our workers, especially the drivers and farm workers, etc. We cleaned out every liquo…
I remember when I entered the novitiate in June 1958. We were together with the class ahead of us, who were 6 weeks from taking their first vows. During their training of our class, they warned us about the ennui and depression of the “tunnel month”,…
January was a wild month and I never got around to writing a newsletter.
I apologize for this! Also, the Green Bay Packers blew the playoffs, so a great
angst set in for a while!
I am helping train three newly ordained Redemptorists here at S…
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
December 5 was the King’s 84th birthday, and his birthday is also “Father’s Day in Thailand. The kids had a ball putting off really good skits and dances. They rented dresses, etc. Father Chuck, Maytee, Ole and I had our wrists tie…
A BELATED HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Halloween has come and passed. It is, surprisingly to me at least, the most popular party we have! Each house (all 6 of them) makes food of some sort to bring to the party. This year, we had our new rice and it was st…
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Sarnelli House is a project of the Redemptorist Fathers Foundation of Thailand
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