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Dion DiMucci, better known as Dion of the Belmonts, in a July 2020 televised conversation with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, spoke of one of his teen years’ pastors.  He said that whenever he would walk in front of the church and the priest was there, the priest would call out to him, “Hey, Dion, come over here.” And Dion would comply and listen carefully to what the priest wanted to tell him.  One brief exchange the 80 year old Dion, repeated from memory – that tells you how many times Dion pondered it over the sixty-plus intervening years:

Fr. Joe: “Dion, what’s this Rebel Without a Cause?”
Dion:  “It’s a James Dean movie.”
Fr. Joe: “Dion, why rebel without a cause?  Go for the truth, Dion.  Then you really have something.”
Another exchange that Dion remembers:
Fr. Joe:  “Hey, Dion, come over here.”  “What makes a man happy?”
Dion:  “Msgr., if I could get a Ford Thinderbird with black leather bucket seats and chrome wheels and get me a J200 Gibson guitar, get a hit record and, if I could get a date with that righteous fox Susan who just moved down from Vermont, Msgr., I’d be a happy guy.”
Fr. Joe:  “No, Dion.  The viruous man is a happy man.”
Dion:  “What is virtue.”
Fr. Joe:  (as recited by Dion more that sixty years later):  “Virtue is a habitual and firm disposition to do the good.”

And the 80 year old Dion adds, “And I tell you, Cardinal Dolan, I was up to no good in those days.”  (Perhaps the wise and caring Fr. Joe suspected that.)

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What words of wisdom spoken to you in your think-you-knew-it-all youth can you recall today?  Think about them and what they reveal to you now.