Where've I been?

You might have noticed the lack of blog posts these past couple of days. I'm doing well, but the weekend was a particularly busy one with plenty to do and not a great deal of time to properly compose a homily on paper (I won't one but I'm satisfied with it) or to blog.

Saturday morning I had a funeral and in the afternoon, for one reason or another, I simply couldn't focus my energies; my mind kept swirling about all of the things that needed to be finished. In the evening after Mass I attended the Trivia Night sponsored by the parish and had an enjoyable time at it. My team finished neither first nor last but somewhere in between (I don't remember where). We had twenty-seven tables of seven or eight people each!

Sunday morning I woke up exhausted (as I did this morning) and the great amount of rain we have and will yet receive today seems to have had something to do with it as I feel fine now.

I celebrated two Masses and then spent the afternoon preparing for a meeting in the evening and giving some of our high school students a "tour" of my vestments. In the evening we had a meeting of the World Youth Day 2008 pilgrims from my parish and the parishes we are travelling with. Total, we make up 25 pilgrims and I think we'll get along well.

Today has been rather a quiet day since I woke up exhausted. Tomorrow it will be time to get cracking again.

Currently, we're under a flash flood warning and maybe a thunderstorm warning or two.

On a happier note, the cassock arrived today from Rome and fits great! I'll wear it for the first tomorrow at Confirmation.

Bishop Lucas will join my pastor and I and the retired priest living in the parish for dinner tomorrow evening, prepared by one of our school students who's a very fine chef and served by four of his friends. Bishop Lucas will spend the night with us and a good part of the day Wednesday.

This coming weekend I will be both a candidate and the spiritual director on a De Colores weekend, for which I must prepare throughout the week.

With all of this, blogging may be rather sparse this week, but I'll do what I can.