One last ordination

Tomorrow I travel to Cape Girardeau for the ordination of my last Kenrick classmate, William Hennecke. This will be a sort of reunion day for my class since the 3 St. Louis priests and Fr. Augustine of the Society of Mary Mother of Peace - all the others in our class - will be there.

This will be my first ordination as a priest. It will be very cool because, as a priest, I will get to lay hands on William and offer him the fraternal sign of peace. His ordination will complete the 2007 Kenrick-Glennon Seminary graduating class ordinations.

I'll also have the opportunity to see many of the friends both from Kenrick and from the Cathedral, which I am staying at on Friday evening. It will be nice to see some of the guys and to give them encouragement that, YES, there is an end to their sufferings and that to prize at the end of the race is greater than the pains and struggles of the race itself.

I will blog about the experience of William's ordination when I return on Saturday. Since I am going to be traveling, I will probably not post a blog entry tomorrow (unless I get creative and try to post one again via my cell phone). Until next time...God bless.

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