Today, my new housemates arrive. I am hoping that my life will be more settled. It has been hard on all of us – this time of transition. Last night, John, Jim and I had dinner together at DeCarlo’s, an Italian restaurant that we all like. It was relaxing just to sit and talk about how nice it has been to be together for the last two years. I will miss them.
I had the 8:00am Mass and talked about St. Maria Goretti and how pervasive pornograph is today and what a cross for the young.
I spent some of the day finishing up the paperwork on my weddings and at one point, Joan Ward, our office manager and I went down to the DMV in Georgetown. I have somehow lost my driver’s license and have been driving all around the country without it. So I got the paperwork and Joan dropped me off and I told her I’d call in about an hour for her to come and pick me up. I went into the office and joined a line that stretched out into the hallway and settled in. Then a very nice officer came up to me and said, “Are you 65?” I said, “Actually I’m almost 67” and he said, “Well follow me. We treat senior citizens special here” and I went to the front of the line and was the next person waited on. I was out with my duplicate license in about 20 minutes. Ah, the benefits of old age!!!
I came home and welcomed our new pastor, who was busy moving in. Then I took a nap and afterwards went back to have a 3pm meeting with the DRE.
When I got there; Ginger Burch and Peg Barbera, two great friends from GC had stopped by. We had a wonderful visit and caught up.
Then the DRE and I got the Baptismal schedule for July and August straightened out.
Then I wrote a proposal to the NCEA convention, which will be in April in Boston 2012, for Joe and I to give a presentation on the importance of Church History for High School students and RCIA. It would be neat if they accept it. We should know in September.
Lastly around 7pm, a very nice couple, Josh and Michelle, picked me up and drove me to Christy and Jack’s for a pre-Cana session. In addition to these two couples who were the leaders, there were four engaged couples as well. We had a wonderful time and I enjoyed heaing the couples share. They will get together two more times and then on July 28th, I will join them again for the last session.
To those who know my inability to NOT know someone’s relatives. I just want to say that Christy is the daughter of Ann and George Jelen, whom I knew at St. Camillus and one of the engaged men is the cousin of Sister Catherina, who was my 8th grade teacher. It is a small world.
Well, now I’m off to bed. Have the 11am tomorrow but afterwards I will head South for a “family retreat” at Camp Maryland with about twenty families that I led a retreat for last July and they asked me back. So probably no news till Sunday. Pray for all of us and know that I will ask them to pray for you and yours.
6 degrees of separation….a volunteer in the parish used to live in Riverdale!