Weekends in the Heart are just straight craziness. I mean Saturday alone is fuel for about two posts. Saturday started off with a formation Saturday, which I mentioned previously. During formation Saturdays we start off with the Latin Novus Ordo (which is the Latin version of the Mass we are all used to) and then as classes we each say a rosary. My class says our rosary outside walking around the grounds. After the rosary we spend time in lectio continua, which is a continual reading of Sacred Scripture, each time picking up where the last time left off. Afterwards we have formation sessions by class.
This month's session was about Spiritual Fatherhood and discerning the priestly calling to fatherhood. I found it very helpful and will provide plenty of fodder for my prayer in the future. This year of the seminary is very much about discerning God's call for each of our lives. We had a talk from one of the priests on two characteristics of fatherhood generativity (the property of generating) and mercy. We looked how these traits are exhibited in God and in the life of the priest. We then had a discussion as a class with the priests about these traits, discernment and fatherhood. It was pretty much what the doctor ordered for the seminarian mind that is constantly racked with the question of discernment.
After the session, I went home to do some baking. I, unfortunately, had to miss the annual college vs theology softball game (which we lost by one run on two highly contestable calls, or so I hear). I was preparing a birthday cake for a dinner that took place after evening prayer hosted by a theology professor at the seminary. She boards three young women, two of which are commuter students at the seminary and friends. The professor loves to host seminarians and her latest dinner coincided with the birthday of one of these young women. I thought I would try my hand at cake decorating and the best place to bake is my house because we have the counter space and supplies that the college kitchen does not have. The result was... from my point of view a mitigated pass, from the input I received an unqualified success. The dinner itself was so much fun and a great opportunity to bond with the extended seminary community.
The cake baking itself was a monster fiasco. I wound up having to abort and start over after making a few critical errors that are seriously rookie mistakes. Cakes are supposed to be boring (seriously compared to the fun stuff I like making, they are boring), you can make while sleeping affairs but instead I turned it into a fail cake! So my budgeted time was very much used up and I wound up cutting an entire frosting color out of the design, having to freezer cool the cake, and then the first layer of frosting, and finally speeding recklessly down the highway with the cake pan in next to me. I showed up to evening prayer JUST on time covered in cake flour and food coloring. I don't think I've ever seen anyone else experience this.
After the adventure Sunday, I decided to spend a NORMAL day at home. So I went home immediately after Mass (grabbing just some peanut butter and bread as a pre-run snack) and treated myself to a nice 11-12 mile run around suburbia in the fall (80 degree fall, but fall none the less!!!). Then spent some nice time with my parents before meeting other seminarians for Tai food (a Sunday tradition). I love Sundays.
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