This month's episode marks the beginning of our podcast's fifth year!  Sr. Alice Michael hosts Marilyn Crum, Jeanette Borg, and Joan DiMarco, three women with whom she has worked in various capacities associated with Holy Union's ministries in New York over the years.  Though Holy Union's initial ministry was focused on teaching children in the classroom across several schools there, the discussion traces their presence and impact as their work broadened to include new and even non-traditional roles within the parishes where they worked.  These included adult religious education, caring for the homeless, the elderly, the sick, and special needs children.  The episode concludes with a heartfelt remembrance of Holy Union's departure from Astoria, and the sadness the Sisters, parents, parishioners, and children felt as they pulled away.  As with all endings, new beginnings and new opportunities for all lay just ahead.