I was planning to get up this morning and “work out” but I just didn’t want to get out of the warm bed. It was very cold outside last night and it was great to sleep in a cold room; it was just to hard to leave my bed. I got up around 9am and headed over to the center. I had the 11:00am Mass and although I am feeling better, my voice sounded very raspy and I don’t like preaching for very long when I sound like that.
Fr. Charlie Parry returned my call from yesterday about my wedding confusion. He has a wedding himself but he will leave a message for his assistant, Fr. John, who is on retreat this week. I hope I can find someone to help Amy and David.
Although I make jokes about the tradition that you get like your first pastor, I think I am more like Msgr. Eckert every day. I realized today that my Team’s next meeting is this Sunday. You may remember that I missed last month’s meeting because of terrible traffic on the beltway; well, this Sunday, I will be in Pittsburgh. For a senior priest, I seem to have great periods of “nothing to do” and lots of double bookings.
This afternoon I took over for Fr. John, his RCIA group as he had meetings. It was very enjoyable. There were four women and one man and our topic was the Sacraments of Healing. I think I did a decent job as both of them are sacraments I enjoy celebrating. I hope I was able to remove any fear of confession that they might have had from their non-Catholic background.
I spent the last two hours, working on my family genealogy. I got a program a few years ago and I think I have about 400 people listed. It is called Ancestry.net and when you put someone in, often there is a lead to some other information. I find it very relaxing and also just fun to think about my relatives.
I have the 6:30am and the 8:00am Masses tomorrow, so I think I’ll head to bed.
“For a senior priest, I seem to have great periods of “nothing to do” and lots of double bookings.” LOL
Do you keep a calendar?? Or, more importantly, do you check it?