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

The past 8 days were my busiest so far this summer...and I probably won't be as busy until I get back to the NAC in late August. My days began around 5/5:30 with personal pray...but then the rest of my day was spent from 7:30-4 (most days) a group of 20 rising sophomores in our RelEd program in the parish's first ever Confirmation Boot Camp . Given the ever increasingly packed schedules of high school teenagers, our pastor wanted to offer an alternative program to the traditional once a week RelEd class. So was born the idea for an intense, dynamic, program that the teens would commit to attending to fulfill their catechetical portion of the Confirmation program. Our pastor had me and the Director of Faith Formation and Evangelization (DFFE) design an 8 day program (Sunday-Sunday, began and ended with Mass, and the teens went to daily Mass to start the day) that was about 61.5 hours of catechesis!!  We tried to design it so that we had an overall theme for each day, and the...

Realizing that my blogging has become far and few between, I thought I could fix that... First, The "Happenings"---what I've been up to---in a somewhat brief style: I've been back in the States for a little over 3 weeks---and man has that time flown! The first 3 days I was back were great days spent mainly with my mom. We went to daily Mass and then did errands, went out to eat, visited my Grammie...and other cool things like that. On Saturday June 18, I was blessed to attend the priestly ordination of Fr. Matthew Rensch of the Diocese of Burlington. Fr. Matt and I have lived on the same hall at NAC for the past 3 years, so it was a great joy to see him ordained a deacon back in the fall at St. Peter's as well as a priest on his home turf. There were several NAC faces present at the ordination and reception and it was fun to just spend time with them. After our Father's Day cookout Sunday, I prepared for the Boston Seminarian Retreat up in Kennebunkpor...