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Omnia Christus est Nobis

A day-off Hike

9/11/2019

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I can see the peak of this mountain from my office window at the Cathedral.  With my new job at the Newman Center I work on the other side of this peak and drive around the mountain on a daily basis. So I determined that with my next full day off I would  take advantage of the trails to the peak.   The actual peak was a disappointment.  The trail does not go all the way to the peak, but stops several hundred feet from the peak.  The private property at the peak has been taken over by a vineyard.  Still it was a marvelous hike and did not take very long.  On this particular day off my fit-bit indicated I had walked 13, 305 steps
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Memories of 9/11

9/11/2019

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I had arrived new to Chicago on September 10, 2001.  As September 11 dawned, I was the new Formation director for the Society of the Precious Blood.  Two CPPS members had made an appointment for lunch to welcome me to the City.  Everything I had was in boxes that had been delivered in the previous days.

It was a little past 8:00 am.  I had celebrated Mass, said morning prayer, had a small breakfast and was just about ready to open the first box. My cell phone rang.  It was my sister.

“Have You unpacked your Television?”

“No. “

“Well, unpack it and turn it on, I will wait.”

It took a few minutes, and a few technical details, but I got the small TV unpacked and, and placed on a bookcase, and turned it on and set it to the same network my sister was watching.

I told her of what was going on in Chicago, how the high buildings in in the City were being evacuated.

Alone in my new home, I watched the coverage for the next several hours.  Close to noon I turned the TV off and headed over to The CTU where I was to meet the other two CPPS members for lunch.

They had not heard of what was going on in New York.  And they did not believe me when I told them.  When we got to the Restaurant where everyone was watching and everyone was talking about it, then they believed me.

For the next several days I was glued to the television, slowly unpacking boxes, and contemplating what it meant to form priests for a new world. 

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