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A. Varesano interviewing M/M Joe Sulkusky
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8/8/72
Tape 30-1

AV: Where did you get that picture of the sacred heart on the wall?

MS: Well, that was, my greanddaughter painted that.

AV: She did?

MS: She painted that.

AV: When did she give it to you?

MS: She gave it to me sometime arund Christmas time or so.

AV: How many years ago?

MS: Oh, that's quite a bit of, many years. And that'n that'n I don't know who
gave that to me, too, that little picture.

AV: Of the sacred heart?

MS: The sacred heart.

AV: Why do you keep it in the kitchen?

MS: Well, I keep it in the kitchen, like now, that's the Lord's Suppeer, well I
keep that all the time here, bcause we have our meals here, you know.

AV: But why do you keep those other two here in the kitchen?

MS: Oh, just I feel that I have something, you know, , to show

AV: How do you meaan? Something holy to show?

MS: Something holy to show.

AV: Why do you keep the holy calendar underneath there? Why this holy calendar?

MS: That's a reminder that I know the dates of the saints.

AV: Oh, I see, it's one of those.

MS: Yes. See, I have all the saints, reminds you on that.

AV: Yeah.

MS: You get that f rom the church, you know. Around Christmas time, before
Christmas, around the fifteenth of, or the eighth of December, we already get
them, you know, to announce what is there, remind us of the saints we're
havin'.

AV: Yeah. Why do you thhink a holy calendar is better?

MS: Well, just that we believe in the holy calendars, and we think it's to remind
us, you know, to think about what this here saints is, and what days
they have the saints on.

AV: And this sacred heart over here, are you devoted to that?

MS: Well, I am devoted to the Blessed Mother and the Sacred Heart.

AV: I mean, that's your specific devotion?

MS: That's right.

AV: What about the rosary? Do you still say the rosary?

MS: I belong to the rosary. I belong to the rosary. From a little child up I
belong, since my mother brought me up to belong to the rosary, and I still
belong to the rosary now.

AV: What do you mean, "belong to the rosary"?

MS: Well, you change, the, you see, like the rosary cards we change. You know,
I change my card every month. I have a different,ah month for the rosary,
to pray. The devotions you know, that we have.

AV: What does that do for you? I mean, what do you get out of it?

MS: Well, I don't, but still I feel that I belong to that, you know, that I
should honor it, you know, that's what I do is, is say my prayers in the
mornings and honor the rosary.

AV: How many do you say every day?

MS: I say every morning and every night, in the evening, I say.

AV: A whole rosary?

MS: A whole rosary. And if I want to take time out, I can do it more often, too,
if I want to do it. You know, but that's my morning and night devotion that
I say my whole rosary, and then in the evening I do say my rosary. That's