Well Ladies and Gentlemen it has begun again, Summer Apostolate 2009 at the wonderful and vibrant parish of St. Thomas of Villanova in Palatine!
I moved out here, after a few days at home to process the end of the year at the seminary, not going to lie, it was a rough transition into parish life, I think only because I truly realized next year when I come back to St. Joseph College Seminary, I am at the top of heap, and two of my closest friends are not going to be there with me. None-the-less the summer had to come, certainly a time for me to process things, and really dive, again, into the parish priesthood dimension which I love so much and which we, in Chicago, are ordained to be!
I arrived here Wednesday mid-morning and really just picked up where I left off, it was like I never left. After the usual welcome back, we missed you, we are glad you are heres from people and the Staff, which truly made me feel right back at home, I really spent the rest of the day simply relaxing and enjoying being back out here. Basically what that means, is I had to unpack and "Bradify" my room here at the Rectory.
Thursday was a good day, spent the majority of it in the office just doing some clerical work and things of that nature with Tom. Not a whole lot went on, again, had the usual morning, Mass at 8:00 a.m. and then went to Breakfast with Tom and two of the faithful 8:00 a.m. Mass go-ers. Came back to the office after that and did some work, and then I was back at the Rectory and spent the rest of the day just relaxing in the room.
Friday was an extreme day of office work. After helping at a 10:00 a.m. Funeral, Tom and I were back in the office getting him ready to go off on vacation. So after we cleared out his mailboxes, did some major shredding and things of that nature, we were off to run some errands and then back at the Rectory so he could back, while he was doing that, I wrote my article for next weeks Bulletin on Ascension, look later this week for the article. We then went out to dinner with Connie at Barnaby's a nice little pizzeria on Rand Road out here, it was nice to go out and just relax. I had been feeling sick all day, so I called it a night very very early, well 10:30 p.m. and did not wake up till about 9:45 a.m. this morning. GOTTA LOVE SATURDAY'S!!!!
Today does not bring much other than the usual Saturday Parish activities, basically that means NOTHING!!! Tonight we have Family Mass so I will be helping a lot with that, but after that, pretty much just going to relax and chill for the evening. Have all three Masses on Sunday, figured I should make an appearance it being my first weekend back and all, and then rumor has it, one Mr. Michael Olson, one of my bestest friends, is coming out for a visit. It will be good to see him and hear his stories from his first week of parish life at St. Hilary.
Until next time.............peace and love!!!
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