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Off the grid again

7/25/2015

Leaving Rome this afternoon for Dublin, Ireland. I will be on retreat. It will also be an opportunity to connect with an old friend.

Please no emails. I have hundreds from this past week, most of them junk, but still it takes time.

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A Pilgrim in Assisi

7/24/2015

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Off the grid

7/22/2015

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I will not be posting for a few days. I am heading to Assisi for a few days of quiet. I will be staying at a little pensione that has remarkable views and has a 14th century chapel attached to it where I will be able to celebrate Mass each day. If you want, you can leave your intentions in the comments here on the blog or on facebook.

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Are you listening?

7/22/2015

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Priestly fraternity

7/21/2015

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My most recent life has been a period of priestly conflict. I have a great deal of respect for the priests I lived with, but we agreed about almost nothing. I used to joke about the fact that the two things Jim and I agreed upon was scotch and Jesus.

This is why, when it happens, that true priestly fraternity, a sharing of similar ideas and common goals, along with the communion in the suffering and the struggles of those working together in a divided church, when this fraternity is experienced, it is remarkably refreshing. Both in Pittsburgh and in Rome I have had these experiences and it has been wonderful.

3 priests, 2 members of societies of apostolic life (me and an Oratorian), 1 Dominican brother, 1 Benedictine brother, 2 New York seminarians, and 2 lay men open to the priesthood (Dennis Vu and another gentleman).