Leap of Faith

You may recall back in my vocation retreat post, that I talked about the seminarians and their leap of faith.  They quit their jobs, sold their houses and just followed the call.

Well, sometime over the summer, your prayers for me and my daily prayers worked their magic. I have no interest in keeping my house anymore.  It makes no sense when I'll only be here a few days every year.  I thought of moving to a nearby condominium, but that also does not make sense to me for the same reasons.

Here is the current plan.  Once I am in my first semester at the seminary; sell the house, buy a condominium in the town in Maine where my dad lives and move him from his apartment into the condominium. He will have a nice place to live in, I have a place to go on breaks and vacation.

The Divine Office

One of the things I (re)learned on the vocation retreat was The Divine Office.  In the back of my mind I knew that deacons and priests prayed this every day.  We did it in the chapel together on the retreat.

I have the books, why not try it?  Well, as they said on the retreat, "Ask 4 seminarians and you'll get 4 different sets of prayers shat should be said today."  Shorter Christian Prayer is a bit confusing.  But I found a way that works even better for me.  Reading it to myself leaves me without a tangible communitiy.

The Divine Office for iPod App is wonderful for me.  They pray the Morning Prayer on my morning commute and the Evening Prayer on my evening commute.  I say the responses as I can as I am driving.  Sure, some mornings I cannot remember a thing  I heard, but most of the time it's a great experience.  Some days, I have my book in hand in my living room and read along, but most of the time I just listen and respond.  The Invitatory, Office of Readings,  Midday prayer (text only) and Night Prayer are also available to me when I can get them in.

For those without an iPod (iPhone, iWhatever), just go to http://divineoffice.org/