ST. ALEXIUS - OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS - ST. PAUL’S
Meet Holy Family School Business Mana
Carla
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ach weekday morning of the school year, So I’m here, and it has been such a blessing in Carla Moritz wakes up, prepares for my life. God definitely led me here.” her day, and says a Rosary. By 7:30 In the six years that Carla has served a.m., she is in her office at Holy as the school’s Business Manager, she Family School, getting a few things has been touched by the faith of the done before the children begin to students and their willingness to arrive. As the school’s Business pray for others throughout the Manager, her days are rarely school day. She has also been dull! The hours quickly fill inspired by the “big heart for with office duties, from making Jesus and the children” that sure building needs are met, to she witnesses in her boss, Lynn working together on projects Peterson, every day. with Principal Lynn Peterson. Working in a faith-filled Every hour of every day, Carla atmosphere — and having the feels incredibly blessed to serve opportunity to visit the adoration our school in this important role. chapel across the street from the Prior to coming to Holy Family school before or after work — brings School, Carla spent over 20 years in the Carla a sense of joy and peace. As a lifelong banking industry and several years as Catholic who grew up attending St. Paul’s the Business Manager for her husband’s Carla Moritz with her husband, Steve Church and Holy Family School, Carla construction company. When the has a deep connection to the Catholic position of Business Manager at the school opened up, community in Sauk Centre. many friends and acquaintances told her she should “My grandsons are the fourth generation of my family consider applying. to go to Holy Family School,” she says. “And I feel a strong “People were coming to me and dropping all these sense of community here at St. Paul’s. A connection has hints, and I finally recognized that maybe God was talking developed, and it’s just been the best thing ever. It’s like to me through them,” Carla says. “At the interview for the I have my own little family outside my family here in the job, I said, ‘I believe God sent me here, and if I’m meant to church. It feels like that passage in the Catechism that says be working here, you will choose me and I’ll accept, but if Jesus is the Head and we are the Body. That’s how I feel you choose another, I’ll know that God has another plan.’ about my church — really feeling like part of the whole
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“At the interview for the job, I said, ‘I believe God sent me here, and if I’m meant to be working here, you will choose me and I’ll accept, but if you choose another, I’ll know that God has another plan.’ So I’m here, and it has been such a blessing in my life. God definitely led me here.” — Carla Moritz 4
