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As I begin my 35th year at Bishop Montgomery, I look forward to the comfort and familiarity of our community as well as to the challenges and changes to come.

I begin each year remembering the words of my hero, Pope St. John XXIII:

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but what it is still possible for you to do."

"See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little."

--Pope St. John XXIII

And I continue to be inspired by C.S. Lewis:

"Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him."

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself, less."

"Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not."

--C.S. Lewis

Thank you for visiting my page.

Shalom,

John R. Fitzsimons

Religious Studies Department

Bishop Montgomery Ambassadors

Kairos Retreat Assistant

BA: Loyola Marymount University

California Secondary Teaching Credential: Mt. St. Mary's College

Archdiocese of Los Angeles Religion Certificate