And so it begins...

Well, I am settled in at Kenrick for my LAST year of seminary. It has been a busy few days. I arrived on Tuesday afternoon and spent most of the rest of the day moving my stuff in, trying to figure out where I want to arrange or in this case rearrange thing and just trying to make that mental shift to school.

Wednesday, I had volunteered to serve as the deacon for the day (I 'volunteered' because someone saw me in the building Tuesday evening). In between Morning Prayer, Mass and Evening Prayer, I got the Student Computer Services department organized. I also went shopping for all those little things you need for school but really don't think about until right before you need them.

Thursday was our first day of orientation for returning students. I am still trying to figure out why 4th year even had to return before noon on Friday. The only events that even involved us was our Student Life Association meeting (our Student Government) and individual photos for the yearbook.

Friday we actually had a couple of meetings to attend. There was a liturgy meeting at 9:00 am, a Student Handbook meeting at 10:00 am and a pastoral formation meeting at 11:00 am. Actually, the only meeting we really had to be at was the liturgy meeting. They could have put the pages we needed to add to our handbook into our mailbox. Fr. Rothschild himself said that the deacons didn't really need to be at the pastoral formation meeting...yet here we were.

Today we had our Day of Recollection. We have these once a month in which the day centers around prayer and includes a retreat director. I was the deacon of the day again, so my day centered on leading Morning, Daytime and Evening prayer, assisting at Mass and leading Exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. My Day of Recollection was busier than a full day of classes.

Classes start on Monday so I guess we'll be off to the races. I have two classes on Mon. and Wed. and only one class on Tue. and Fri. That class is a course titled Medical Ethics, so it shoud provide some good knowledge and material for our pro-life discussions. Anyway, it all begins on Monday so until next time...God bless.

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