General
News
Hello everyone! I haven't had a single chance to write here in several days, but figured I'd drop a note to say that life is going great in general. Thank you all for the prayers over the many weeks and months-- I've turned a corner. For me, it's been work all day, then church stuff in the evenings. Even during the weekends I've been booked solid, and all of the things I am doing are very fulfilling!
This past Saturday my daughter and I got some nice bonding time, frying and packaging donuts for the youth in our Area Catholic Community to sell. On Sunday I was on Sacristan duties, so that took up a big part of the day. During the week it was work, work, and more work-- I'm absolutely loving my job, such a cool environment basically being on a factory floor, so-to-speak; forklifts driving around, working with electrical and mechanical engineers on the machines themselves... super cool job.
Yesterday I went to a men's conference for our ACC-- it started with the Bishop presiding over a morning Mass, he gave a great homily, then followed up with some wonderful speakers. After that I went home for maybe an hour, then drove right back to Confession and Mass Saturday evening.
Today I woke up at the crack of dawn and coordinated the serving of coffee and donuts after both the 8:00 and 10:00 Masses on behalf of the Pastoral Council-- so I was gone from 5:30 to about 13:30. Then I came home and watched Lazio suffer and win against Juventus of all teams, a side we basically never beat-- so that was cool.
Now tonight I am going to get my exercise in, make my lunch for tomorrow, and reply to some correspondence. I owe several people replies to things, so I apologize to those people, I've just had almost zero time in front of the MacBook of late!
This next week should be fun as well. I run the Pastoral Council meeting on Tuesday night, then run the Liturgy Committee on Wednesday night. We will be discussing All Saints and All Souls day liturgies, among myriad other topics. I am both Altar Server and Sacristan on both Saturday and Sunday then this upcoming weekend, so lots of liturgical involvement for me-- it's something I really relish.
Right after the Sunday Mass, I will be heading over to another friend's house for the Vikings game, with a bunch of other men either in or interested in the diaconate.
On to some not-so-good news: one of my very best friends at church-- and one of other other Sacristans-- fell out of his deer stand. He's 75 years old and suffered a brain bleed, so please hold him in your prayers. Simultaneously, our other Sacristan is stepping down from weekend duties-- so it's down to just me now in weekends! I'm going to ask around and see if we can get someone else to help me out.
As for wifey, she has been just as busy, and also loving it. We just looked at each other a couple of nights ago, and talked over each other saying the same sentence: "I've never been more busy, and have never felt more fulfilled." All of these activities, being in service to others, gives such meaning to life in a way sitting home playing video games simply can't.
God bless everyone!
This past Saturday my daughter and I got some nice bonding time, frying and packaging donuts for the youth in our Area Catholic Community to sell. On Sunday I was on Sacristan duties, so that took up a big part of the day. During the week it was work, work, and more work-- I'm absolutely loving my job, such a cool environment basically being on a factory floor, so-to-speak; forklifts driving around, working with electrical and mechanical engineers on the machines themselves... super cool job.
Yesterday I went to a men's conference for our ACC-- it started with the Bishop presiding over a morning Mass, he gave a great homily, then followed up with some wonderful speakers. After that I went home for maybe an hour, then drove right back to Confession and Mass Saturday evening.
Today I woke up at the crack of dawn and coordinated the serving of coffee and donuts after both the 8:00 and 10:00 Masses on behalf of the Pastoral Council-- so I was gone from 5:30 to about 13:30. Then I came home and watched Lazio suffer and win against Juventus of all teams, a side we basically never beat-- so that was cool.
Now tonight I am going to get my exercise in, make my lunch for tomorrow, and reply to some correspondence. I owe several people replies to things, so I apologize to those people, I've just had almost zero time in front of the MacBook of late!
This next week should be fun as well. I run the Pastoral Council meeting on Tuesday night, then run the Liturgy Committee on Wednesday night. We will be discussing All Saints and All Souls day liturgies, among myriad other topics. I am both Altar Server and Sacristan on both Saturday and Sunday then this upcoming weekend, so lots of liturgical involvement for me-- it's something I really relish.
Right after the Sunday Mass, I will be heading over to another friend's house for the Vikings game, with a bunch of other men either in or interested in the diaconate.
On to some not-so-good news: one of my very best friends at church-- and one of other other Sacristans-- fell out of his deer stand. He's 75 years old and suffered a brain bleed, so please hold him in your prayers. Simultaneously, our other Sacristan is stepping down from weekend duties-- so it's down to just me now in weekends! I'm going to ask around and see if we can get someone else to help me out.
As for wifey, she has been just as busy, and also loving it. We just looked at each other a couple of nights ago, and talked over each other saying the same sentence: "I've never been more busy, and have never felt more fulfilled." All of these activities, being in service to others, gives such meaning to life in a way sitting home playing video games simply can't.
God bless everyone!