Tomorrow, I’ll be going on retreat at one of my favorite places. If I can pray for you, please comment, text, dm, email, owl-post etc. your requests.
In your charity, please say a #prayer for all of our @saintmeinrad men on retreat across the Nation this week, especially my classmates and I as we prepare for our #Diaconate #Ordinations.
#SemesterBooks The most I’ve ever had to have for classes so far at @saintmeinrad Some, books I already owned, including a couple I didn’t move off my shelf for this pic and am too lazy to retake. Haha. Deacon Liturgy/Homiletics practicum course is on the right, Catholic Social teaching, Johannine Literature & thought, Prophets and Poetry, Procedure & Practice in Matrimonial Law, Trinity, and English Catholicism are on the left. It’ll be a full, but blessed semester!!
2010-2019. What a wonderful decade it has been!! Graduated High school, started Seminary, graduated college seminary, traveled to the Holy Land and lived in Guatemala for three months, sponsored 7 confirmandi, Godfather to three, grew to 3 nieces and 2 nephews, lost my Grandfather, Great Aunt and other family, driving my third car, bought my first of many Apple products, started photography, worked as a hospital chaplain, legally able to drink, able to rent a car, first and only speeding ticket (long story...6? Years ago), made a bunch of friends, worked at Gasper where I met some of my best friends, served so many weddings and funerals of friends and family, became addicted to coffee, learned to whistle and snap my fingers at the age of 21, built my first website, learned woodworking, made a bunch more friends, provided a lot of pastoral care, got my own cellphone and drivers license, learned to play the organ and conduct, took vocal lessons, became a shoe schnobb, learned to drive a stick, became a CatholicTwitter star in the great 2018 Gingerbread debacle, grew facial hair, celebrated a bunch of friends ordinations, the list could go on and on.
Most importantly you and so many others have played such an important part of my life over the course of this decade. As I go to bed tonight to be up to play the 7am Mass tomorrow morning, I give thanks to God for each of you and your presence in my life. May the Lord grant each of us another decade to live, laugh, love, and serve him and each other! Love ya!
