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S. Mary Paul Geck reads a letter that she wrote as principal at the St. Elizabeth’s School in Selma to the sisters back in Rochester. She wrote the letter as a way to keep the people up north updated on how things were going. She details the situation in Selma:

“To say or even hope that all will be done quickly or quietly would be foolish and blind thinking. It will not be. There will be much sacrifice and much hardship before anything is really accomplished. But a beginning is being made, and this is important. We are living in the midst of a revolution, when we realize that revolution means a violent change, not a war. Our children are children of revolution, and they feel it without necessarily being aware of the full implication of what it means. These are hard days for them-more than ever they need our understanding and our love. We all need to be conscious of our relationship as sisters and brothers in the Mythical Body. “As long as you did it not to one of these the least of my brethren, you did it not to ME.”

To listen to S. Mary Paul Geck’s entire letter, watch this interview clip from Sisters of Selma (2007) and hear her letter in her own voice. Copies of the original letter are below.

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