Retreats and changes

My class made our annual retreat from 10/12-10/17.  I spent an extra night to make it go until 10/18.  Why? Well, I made it my canonical retreat.  Before each ordination, the candidate must spend 5 consecutive 24 hour periods on retreat.  That means 6 nights.  The other men made these canonical retreats before their ordinations.  There are 4 left in my class to be ordained as deacons.

We stayed at Marie Joseph Spiritual Center in Biddeford Pool, Maine.  It is an old hotel, a bit mysterious, a bit creaky, but a wonderful place right on the ocean.

Some changes have taken place at the Seminary as well.  As is normal, we have lost a couple of the first year men.  Some men always discern out in the weeks just before or just after the retreat.  Please continue to pray for them as you pray for us.

We celebrated out 50th Anniversary as a Seminary at our annual Alumni Days event.  You've probably seen those pictures on Face Book.  The keynote speaker was the US Ambassador to the Vatican.  The Vatican shared the Seminary's FaceBook page and 30,000 people saw our page in 1 day.
(BTW, with great humility, the pictures on this page and the Face Book page were taken by this amateur photographer)