The Third Year Starts

    I arrived back at the seminary on Friday for a meeting of the Orientation Team.  17 new men arrived on Saturday.  We unloaded them, moved them to their rooms and started them on the process.  We have 2 entering 3rd Theology (with my class), 2 entering 2nd Theology, 7 entering First Theology (plus the four pre-thelogy from last year to make 11) and 5 entering Pre-theology.  This gives us a total of 57 in the house.  That puts us a bit lower than last years 66, but we have room to grow.

   Classes start tomorrow (Friday) with Ecclesiology and Catholic Social Doctrine.  Cardinal Sean is coming at noon to celebrate Mass with us.  Next week, I'll have my first classes in Liturgical Preaching and Sacraments.  I also have an elective titled, The Mystery of Suffering.

   I have my pastoral assignment and I will be at a parish on the North Shore of Boston every Sunday for this academic year.  My monthly visit to my home parish to play the organ for a Saturday night Mass remains intact.