From the Week
(FYI, I am currently on Pastoral Year so you will not be hearing much about seminary life from me during this year. You will however hear more about what Pastoral Year is like. It’s interesting and…
(FYI, I am currently on Pastoral Year so you will not be hearing much about seminary life from me during this year. You will however hear more about what Pastoral Year is like. It’s interesting and…
(FYI, I am currently on Pastoral Year so you will not be hearing much about seminary life from me during this year. You will however hear more about what Pastoral Year is like. It’s interesting and…
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Well this week I really listened to the Holy Spirit. Sometimes I wish I could not hear what he was saying. :) I took the parish directory and started visiting people that are not regularly…
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In vocations news, there has been a recent note of rising seminarian numbers in the U.S. We have our highest enrollment for major seminarians since the early 90s. Some like to look back…
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It was a relatively slow week. Thanksgiving shutdown a lot of things. Kids around here actually have all of Thanksgiving week off. Monday we had a practice of the Our Lady of Guadalupe play…
Please say a prayer for a good priest and friend, Msgr. Bill Lyons, who passed away this morning in Rome. He was a great spiritual director and retreat director for many years at the North…
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I really have to work on taking my camera everywhere I go. This weekend was the big Pan de Vida Retreat down at Presentation Parish in Sacramento. The rumor mill tells me we had over 500…
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Doctor reports that I have acute bronchitis. So it’s been another low key week. We had a nice Italian Catholic Federation dinner Saturday night. They were celebrating 150 years of Italian…
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Saturday was busier than expected. Fr. Brian and I went out to the dedication of a new parish church, St. Joseph Marello. The parish has been around since 2003 but the parish community…