Yesterday was Maureen’s birthday. Her good friend, Edith put a great picture of the two of them on Facebook and I really enjoyed it. The staff here arranged for the 8am Mass to be said for Maureen and Pat and Janet Kennedy had the 5:30pm Mass offered for Maureen. It was very thoughtful and meant a lot to me and my sisters.
I spent most of yesterday working on a “reunion” for September 9 – 11 in Milwaukee. On September 8, 1963, I joined the “Specials” at St. Nazianz’s Seminary. We can’t decide how many we were (51 or 54) but we were there to study Latin. About 8 of us have stayed in touch and so we are trying to contact the others and arrange this reunion. I will keep you apraised of our progress.
I talked on the phone to lots of people and had a good talk with Joe Stoutz, John Bohrer, Joan, and my sister, Maggie.
Today is a special feast day (it is the day I met Dan Poje for the first time in 1971) and also the 35th anniversary of the death of Pope Paul VI. Boy, I really do have a lot of history!!!
I have the 11 and the 5:30pm Masses as three of our priests are away. Only Fr. Justin, who came here about three weeks ago, and I are covering things and have at least two Masses a day. It’s not a burden.
Also I have a blessing of a marriage at 6pm.
I will probably spend most of the day working on the reunion.
Tomorrow, I have the 8am and the 11, so that I can go to the 7pm National’s baseball game with a parishioner and Frs Jim and John. That should be fun but I probably won’t write again till Thursday.