Sounds like the start of a good Catholic joke, but these were some of my companions for breakfast this morning. Today was Mission Sunday at our parish, so we had a visiting Redemptorist Priest who was collecting donations to build a church for his parish in Russia. 90% of all churches in Russia were destroyed by the communists, so they are still in the process of rebuilding - both the buildings and spiritually.
Our own pastor regularly joins us for breakfast on Sunday mornings, but we were not sure that he would be able to this week as he is headed out of town today for a Police Chaplains' conference in Texas. However, his flight is not until 12:30, so he was at breakfast as was our resident Seminarian-for-the-summer, Thomas. Our parish has been blessed to host a seminarian most summers, which is really nice because you get to know them a little better. When I pray for seminarians, I am thinking of certain faces, voices and personalities and not just a lot of faceless men.
Of course, we also had our regular Breakfast ladies - and Stephen & Natasha - at Bob's this morning as well. I really miss it when I can't have my Sunday breakfast with my breakfast ladies. But it is really fun to add a couple extra people every now and again.
he he he . . . I loved the title to this one. I, too, like it when I get to know seminarians, but it doesn't happen too often. We've only had one in the 9 years I've been here.
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