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LETTER FROM THE President

Dear Cor Jesu Community,

How will you remember the last scholarships – these gifts, born of
year? It’s a question we have all relationships formed over years, have
asked ourselves. We have endured put us in a place to not only survive, but
a viral pandemic and have come also help our families manage through
extraordinary financial stress. Individuals
face-to-face with the reality of who have long been dedicated to
a social system riddled with addressing inequity within our own
inequity. We have taught children community through efforts like the
from kitchen tables, attended Sr. Mary Antona Ebo Scholarship
Mass from our couches, and (read more on page 22) have laid
educated little ones about realities the groundwork on which we will
we may have never thought to build a far more substantial effort
to address equity and inclusion.
explain to ourselves. We have
worked in isolation for months When I look back at the last year, I do
– yet we have done so together. so with immense gratitude. Gratitude
for the opportunity to continuously
I do not imagine any of us could have learn and improve; gratitude for a
conceived of a year like 2019-2020. But I Cor Jesu community that has only
challenge you to stand back and look at grown stronger – despite the lack of
how it has all unfolded – focusing not just opportunity to build community in
on the surprises, the challenges and the person; and, most especially, gratitude
controversies, but also on the good, the for a God who continues to bless us
positive changes and the collective will of with the ability to grow – to #ChargeOn
our Cor Jesu community to #ChargeOn. physically, emotionally and spiritually.
I have been at Cor Jesu for less than half a Thank you for holding Cor Jesu in
year. But four months has been plenty of your prayers, blessing us with your
time to observe and stand in awe of your gifts, and entrusting us with your
generosity, both spiritual and financial. daughters. We are blessed by you.
Paging through the initial drafts of the
Annual Report, I could not help but stand Sincerely in Christ,
in amazement of God’s grace. From the
anonymous donor for the Class of 2024
(read more on page 9) to the individual Sr. Mary Grace Walsh, ASCJ, Ph.D.
alumnae who give to class endowed Cor Jesu Academy President

2 | FY 2019-20 DATES: JULY 1, 2019-JUNE 30, 2020