“I LOVE SAINT MARY’S BECAUSE I GET TO TAKE EVERYTHING I’M LEARNING – ITALIAN, PSYCHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY – AND PUT IT INTO MY ART.”
President Mooney with juniors Jacquitta Martin, right,
and Hannah Hupp.
Each of us has family traditions that evoke memories of the joys of Christmases past. Saint Mary’s has many wonderful Christmas traditions, both old and new. As a student here I fondly remember the junior class caroling through the halls with wreaths on their heads and candles in their hands. Today’s students, faculty, and staff participate in the Twelve Days of Christmas, sponsored by our Office of Civic and Social Engagement. This wonderful new tradition sponsors fundraising projects, collections, and acts of kindness through which Saint Mary’s reaches into the community to share our many blessings.
For my family and me, Lessons and Carols at the Church of Loretto, is now our sign that Christmas is here. This beautiful candlelit evening of prayer, reflection, and song calms my soul and fills me with the true peace of the season. I hope that each of you finds time to quiet your mind and focus on the wondrous gift of the Incarnation, the gift of God with us. Sister Madeleva, our poet president, wrote many beautiful poems. The following is an excerpt from one of her poems about Christmas, "Parables":
Because we are all innkeepers, tonight
Let every door be open, every window bright,
That, when a young girl and her waiting Child shall come,
We be their home.
Because we are all shepherds on the hills,
Keeping whatever be our flocks, when the night fills
With songs to say a Child is born in Bethlehem,
We follow them.
Merry Christmas,
Carol Ann Mooney
Scenes from a Saint Mary's Christmas
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//Code credit: http://www.upsidedowncity.net/make-a-flickr-badge-with-lightbox-functionality/
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function GetFlickr(){
function request(){
//specify the api call to get the photoset specified in photoset_id, num photos per page, date uploaded
//and original, medium, and square image urls in php serial format
/*
* NOTE: should change the calls to point at https://secure.flickr.com/services/[etc] once
* we are serving via ssl then we can remove the http to https url conversion lines
*/
$url = "http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?api_key=e40463ca7d8277df46ef4ff241e15a67&method=flickr.photosets.getPhotos&photoset_id=72157625479546641&per_page=12&extras=date_upload%2C+url_o%2C+url_z%2C+url_sq&format=php_serial";
$resp = file_get_contents($url); //open url specified above
return unserialize($resp); //"Creates a PHP value from a stored representation" according to manual.
}
$photos = request(); //assign value returned by function request() to variable $photos
foreach ($photos['photoset']['photo'] as $photos){
$photo_info_url = "http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?api_key=e40463ca7d8277df46ef4ff241e15a67&method=flickr.photos.getInfo&photo_id=" . $photos['id'] . "&secret=" . $photos['secret'] . "&format=php_serial"; //get info about this individual photo
$info_resp = file_get_contents($photo_info_url);
$photo_info = unserialize($info_resp);
//Google Analytics click code
$onclick = "javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview','Christmas 2010 photo clicked - " . $photos['url_z'] . "'])";
//replace quotes with ascii equiv to avoid display problems
$encoded_description_1 = preg_replace("/'/", ''', $photo_info['photo']['description']['_content']);
$encoded_description = preg_replace("/\"/", '"', $encoded_description_1);
//make http: urls be https: urls to ensure ssl clearance **added by Daniel Miller 1-23-13
$photos['url_o'] = str_replace("http:", "https:", $photos['url_o']);
$photos['url_sq'] = str_replace("http:", "https:", $photos['url_sq']);
$photos['url_z'] = str_replace("http:", "https:", $photos['url_z']);
//print out the thumbnail image and everything that goes in the lightbox
print "
";
/* flickr image page link
See this image on Flickr
*/
};
}; //close GetFlickr
?>
/* COMMENTED OUT BECAUSE FLICKR CALL WAS HANGING, INSTEAD HARD CODDED RESULTANT CODE DJM 3-13-2014 */
//GetFlickr();
?>
