In The Hole

A newbie blogger was asking me earlier about what to blog. I said: "Ask yourself the following things and write your answers on your blog." What significant experience did I have today? What striking idea did I get from someone or cooked up myself today? What was I reading today? What was I... Sign in to see full entry.

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"Father, don't you get tempted to want to have children of your own?" Now, why does he have to ask that question? I had just given the final blessing for the Mass and was moving in procession towards the churh's exit. Where I am, it is a custom of the parents to tell their children to go to the... Sign in to see full entry.

A recent discovery made me look for the one man who made me fall in love with Latin, Reginald Foster. I went through Google looking for "Reginaldus Foster" and got quite a lot. Here are the links: The Latin Table Lexicon (Harvard) which is a page prepared with the aid of Reginald Foster. It contains... Sign in to see full entry.

It is strange to talk about the "ministry of blood-relatives" since there isn't any. But how do you call an opportunity that is opened for a priest to get in contact with a member of the flock who is convalescing in the house of a member of a different Christian denomination made possible by this... Sign in to see full entry.

It was strange kneeling before a line of parishioners each putting their hands on your shoulders one after the other and saying "Father, I forgive you and all the other priests." The ceremony was part of the Parish Renewal Experience we are holding today and tomorrow. The parish priest was supposed... Sign in to see full entry.

I used to like the movie called "Paper Chase" and its spin-off TV series. It is the story of law students surviving law school. And the "paper chase" is a play on "paper trail" which lawyers follow when they make a case. The "paper chase" is the law student's quest for that elusive piece of document... Sign in to see full entry.

We had lunch at the sisters today who wanted to hold a simple farewell party for our departing missionary. Fr. J is leaving tomorrow for Belgium to study French and from there, he will proceed to Algiers where the Augustinian friars are caretakers of the Basilica of St. Augustine, considered a... Sign in to see full entry.

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time is Bible Sunday for the Phlippine Catholic Church. In the second half of the 1980’s a National Bible Congress was held here partly to evaluate how much of Dei Verbum has been implemented and partly to continue the reassessment of the problems posed by the... Sign in to see full entry.

That is Sparky making sure that I don't get lonely while my two other companions are out. One of them will be in this afternoon, but Sparky doesn't mind. Sign in to see full entry.