Jackie Waite

Jackie has been working with kids for over 20 years. She began her role with St. Michael Preschool in the Fall of 2019. For seven years prior to that, she ran an in-home daycare. She has also worked for Hastings Public Schools for five years, in the YMCA childcare program, and for Gingerbread Daycare. Jackie earned her Associates Degree in Health & Human Services with credits in Early Childhood Education from Central Community College - Hastings.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, you are called by Holy Mother Church, the Angel of the Schools. Your wisdom, gathered through long meditation from the source of all wisdom, the most holy Trinity, has long been a shining light in the Catholic Church. Ignorance of the things of God is a darkness now enveloping the minds of many of our countrymen. In this darkness, we need an angel like you who will protect, foster, and nourish the schools we have, and guide and strengthen us in establishing and building newer and more adequate schools for the instruction of our children in the ways of Christ. Help and bless the generous sisters, brothers, and priests who labor so unselfishly in the classroom to spread the knowledge of Christ. Inspire our Catholic men and women to be most generous in the support of the schools we have. Grant to parents the wise generosity they need to give their child back to God when that child wishes to follow a priestly or religious vocation. Help us, Saint Thomas, Angel of the Schools, to understand what you taught, and to follow your example. Amen.

Jackie Waite

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