Less reflection this week, but some personal updates instead.

The other morning, I took our dog on our usual walk down the street and around the park. While in the park, we came across an older lady from our church who I’ve seen around town from time to time, collecting and bagging up aluminum cans and plastic bottles. She was at it again that morning in the park, pulling a couple of bottles out of one of the trash cans and putting them into the bag she was carrying.From time to time in the past, when I had seen her doing this, I had briefly wondered why she did it – it never seemed like she needed to try to recycle them for the money, but I didn’t know, and I didn’t ask. The other morning when I saw her doing it again, though, it made me wonder…Read the rest...

My diaconate classmates and I begin a new formation year this weekend.  Our "summer break" has ended and we're back to the academics.  (Actually, we've been back for at least a month, working on our prep homework for this class.)  This fall we have two months on the Synoptic Gospels & Acts, two months on the Epistles, and then a month on Johannine Literature.  I hold each of you in prayer on Friday Night during Holy Hour at our formation weekends. I ask that you please hold my brother classmates and me in your prayers as well. In prayer,Michael