7391Happiness is being married to your best friend,? reads a magnet on the Walsh?s kitchen, a gift from Dick to his wife Judy after a trip taken many years ago. Dick doesn?t remember the trip or even buying the magnet, but he does remember how he felt over 38 years ago when he asked Judy to marry him in his car after an evening seeing a show. He said he didn?t even watch the show. "All I could think about was how I was going to pull it off," he said referring to the proposal.

Judy has never thought of faith and family as far removed from the other. Even in their bedroom a picture of St. Joseph's Proto-Cathedral is displayed with the wedding portraits of four children. Though Judy was herself raised in the Baptist Church, their five children were all reared in the Catholic faith.

Days at the Abbey of Gethsemani start early, around 3:15 a.m. Dick Walsh arrives every day around 5 a.m. for Lauds, the second worship service of the day, and stays until the divine office of Terce is observed at 7:30 a.m. Even after leaving the monastery, Dick says he finds that the teachings of the Trappist monks can provide a layman like himself the same peace that he found while in residence at the abbey.

St. Joseph's School celebrates its fiftieth year in 2003. The school, an arm of St. Joseph's Proto-Cathedral, combines academics with religion in what Judy describes as a faith-filled environment that molds the foundation of the young lives who pass through each year.

Dick Walsh, a deacon at St. Joseph's Proto-Cathedral, spends every Wednesday from 5 p.m. until 6 p.m. in perpetual adoration, praying for the sick, the lost, and others in need of God's grace and mercy.

Judy Walsh cares for hundreds of children every day. She is with them in the hall at the start of their days, eating lunch at the tike-size tables in the cafeteria, and roaming the playground during recess.

Assistant Principal Judy Walsh waits with Jenna Bell, a first grader at St. Joseph's school, for her mom to pick her up at the end of the day. Bell was anxious to show her fall portraits, which she received that day, to her mom.

Dick and Judy Walsh have five children. Her eldest and youngest sons live in Bardstown. Her middle son is a world away, serving in the armed forces in Iraq.?

Dick gave Judy the magnet after returning home from a trip. It proudly displays the artwork of their granddaughter Shannon, a portrait of her grandpa drawn during a Sunday visit. The picture above Shannon's masterpiece is of their daughter Kim DeVries and her family, who live in Bradenburg, KY.