I had both the 6:30am & 8:00am Masses today. Fr. Jim will be back from retreat tonight and actually I was glad to have a reason to get up early. I preached about the wonderful stain glass window that I sat across from in the choir stalls at the Abbey Church at St. Vincent’s for six years. It showed St. Scholastica at her yearly meeting with her twin brother, Benedict in the valley between their two monasteries. She had wanted him to stay longer but he insisted that he must return to his monastery. The window shows the curtins on the window being blown and a rain storm outside. He says to her, “Sister, what have you done?” and she replied, “I asked my brother for something and he said ‘No’; so I asked our Father and He said, ‘Yes’. So they stayed all night in prayer and reflection. Two weeks later, Scholastica died. I love the story and the window.
I went to my doctor today and she said I’m doing very well and she ordered a CAT skan, so I can see how things are. She said that if I thought any cold I had was serious, to call her and get an antibiotic. For now she thought the Airbourne seemed to do the job of catching the cold early.
Tonight, Cardinal McCarrick came to the house for dinner at 6pm and then gave a “Theology on Tap” type of talk and questions in the gym, which was made up like a tavern with great finger foods and beer, wine, and sodas. He spoke on Jesus and was great!!! He had a young seminarian who drove him. His name was Brian and he is a member of the Institute of the Incarnate Wood. Since his retirement, the Cardinal has been living in one of three houses they have that surround St. John Baptist de la salle church. The former rectory is their seminary and they staff the parish. They are an institute founded in the 1980’s in Argentina and there are about 45 in their seminary here in DC. Brian is from Wichita, Kansas and in 2nd theology. They were both great dinner companions.
I will be doing the nursing home Mass tomorrow at 10:00am and Fr. John is hoping to see me at exercises at 7:15am, so I better go to bed.
Happy to hear all went well at the doctor’s!
Sounds like a creative way to Theology on Tap in a gym.