Posted by Kate McNally:

Here we are! Forty years on, and not one of us has aged a day. Well...almost none of us! Here's a photo of me with my husband Dan Flynn. So you can see that I haven't changed. Not one bit.

I was very sorry to miss the reunion, for all the normal reasons, but also because I have a story to tell you all. It's a story that almost nobody who didn't go to PiHi when we did will appreciate. Do you remember the statue of Pius X in front of the school, right hand raised giving the Papal blessing? And do you remember Marist coming to break one of the fingers before a football game? Specifically, breaking the right index finger, which left Himself flipping everyone off. I remember this well.

Fast forward about 35 years. Dan and I were in Munich, trying to improve our German. We visited the Cathedral, which is splendid, and full of all sorts of Cathedral-appropriate things. Like relics. LOTS of relics. But there was one which made me break out in hysterical laughter, and I wished you all were there, because nobody else could understand. There, in a gilded case, treasured for many years, revered by pilgrims, was a relic of our own Pius X. Not just ANY relic, mind you, but his finger. His index finger. The right one. So now I have this image of him buried somewhere, without his finger...

I've sent you all by email the password for this blog, and I hope that you will all post some photos and some stories. I'd love to catch up with all of you!

I invite you to visit my website: www.katemcnally.com and my blog: http://serendipity-kate.blogspot.com