What a life! And it is mine, as a Priest of Jesus Christ!

Here at the NAC, the academic year is starting to wind down. Today the Angelicum University finished classes (the school is being renovated over the summer so they needed to get out a week earlier), and next week the Gregorian and Santa Croce end our classes. This time next week the entire house will have entered finals mode, and I will be eagerly anticipating my June 14th flight back to Boston for the summer. But tonight...Tonight was a great night reminding me how blessed I am to have been sent to the North American College to be formed into a priest of Jesus Christ. Tonight we had our closing Mass and banquet, when we first gather around the Table of the Lord's supper to break the Eucharistic bread together, and then we gather in the refectory to share a meal. As is NAC tradition, at the banquet we honor our departing faculty members (this year we said "Arriverdverci" to 3 priests on the formation staff and 1 Dominican sister who works tirelessly in the College...