I guess I have been running around a lot because I went to bed around 11pm last night and I got out of bed around noon today. I didn’t feel tired but as I am learning to listen to my body – I guess my body said, just lay here and relax. I had turned on the Today show around 8:00am but kept falling back to sleep.
I came over to the office around 1pm and tried to straighten up the desk. I really think that my papers reproduce over night, so it’s time for more piles.
Today is the feast of the first male saint of the US. He wasn’t born here but spent most of his adult life as a priest here. He was a Redemptorist and worked in parishes in Baltimore and went as a missionary to western Pennsylvania. He was the 4th bishop of Philadelphia. I love that he tried to get the Pope to change his mind because St. John thought that he wouldn’t make a good bishop because he was short. The pope told him not to worrry. He knew that John was short but he understood that he was also a man of big faith, that would be enough! And it was.
I have the 9:00am school Mass tomorrow and so I have to work on my homily. The theme is Peace. Students chose “peace” as an appropriate theme for the first Mass of the new semester. I couldn’t be more pleased.
“I guess I have been running around a lot…” – you think???? Glad you are listening to your body. I head to Texas this AM.