Today is so many different things, Dr. King Day, Inauguration Day, and Monday of week 2, that I decided just to put the date. I plan to just spend the day here in my suite and relax.
On Saturday, I had the 8am Mass and then met with a teenager who wants to be more involved with the church – I hope he’ll join the youth group. Then I met with a young man, who has been seeing me about being baptized. He’s in his late twentys and is marrying a Catholic in the Spring. At our last meeting, I gave him the creed and said, see if you can say and believe this. He sent me an email and said “yes and I think I’m read.” So I said, “let’s get together on Saturday”. The point of this story is I thought we were meeting to talk; while he came with his future wife and his parents intending to be baptized that day. I did some quick running around and I baptized him in our chapel. It was very nice but I was a little “frazzed”. Then I met a couple whose marriage I will bless in late June. Then, bless her, Joan Ward came over and we straightened up my office and got a lot of stuff filed or thrown away. We went to supper at Clyde’s and then stopped over at Our Lady of Victory for a farewell for Fr. Duffy. Long and busy day.
On Sunday, I had the 7:30am Mass and then I went back to bed. I watched a lot of the Sunday talk shows and napped. I had nothing in my book, so I stayed here in the rectory all day. I did go over to the office around 6pm and met with another couple that I will marry on March 17th. I think I have 10 wedding envelopes on my desk and I think they are all up to date with the paperwork. I just don’t like paperwork and there is so much in the church.
Oh well, back to TV and the President!!
I gather your office was closed for MLK, etc. Have to get OLPH on THAT kind of schedule. I think we may have been the only office operating…altho, UPS showed up, as did the plumbers and RCIA class … so all was not wasted.