I sat down to think about writing and realized that I am not ready to express my deep thoughts about the ordination I attended last week. I can say it was a joyful and lengthy event. I can say that I attended with an eight-year old, a six-year old, a three-year old and a one-year [...]
June 13 is the Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua. He’s got a few surprises hidden in his story. In the first place he’s Portuguese and Padua is in Italy. In the second place, he died in 1231 after only ten years as a Franciscan, and after the first two years of his preaching as [...]
Saturday I’m going to the ordination of Catholic priests for the Arlington, VA, Diocese. I happen to know that Harrisburg and Allentown up in Pennsylvania are also doing ordinations that day. Philadelphia is done. Lincoln, Nebraska is done. Washington, DC ordinations will take place on June 21. That seems very late to me. I would [...]
Several years ago I went to a “pinning” ceremony for a nurse. The pinning ceremony is specifically NOT a graduation ceremony, if you go read about it. It is a special celebration of becoming a nurse and remembering nurses before you. Some websites claim that the pin tradition goes back to the Middle Ages. The [...]
A five-year old counting to twelve, every time all the candidates moved around. Then he kept track of each time all twelve had to do something, individually. There are eight or ten of those moments, and after the first two, he knew when it would be his uncle’s turn, which person went before his uncle, [...]
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