I do apologize but I allowed some things to slip away during midterms week and the stress of a difficult semester. While I can't promise that this will be the last major gap in posts, I do want to stress that I'm still going to continue my blog and evangelization.
So it has been a month since I last updated this blog and what a tough month it has been!!! I had to face midterms and paper and presentations because the life of a seminarian is also the life of a grad student, granted a grad student actually goes to bed before midnight because of morning prayer obligations (that seems like almost a contradiction).
After midterms week, we had our Days of Recollection. Days of Recollection are mini weekend retreats that each class in the college goes on. These are times of reflection but also rest and fraternity. The schedules aren't as intense as our beginning of the year silent retreats and meant for the classes to cement in fellowship and prayer together. Our class went on its last seminary organized Days of Recollection (because theology doesn't have a set organized retreat like we do) and we definitely made the best of it. The retreat was led by one of the older resident priests here (last year he celebrated his 55th year as a priest!!!) and he ran a very edifying and very relaxed ordo. We had time to grow in fraternity whether around the LARGE fire (which we depleted an entire woodpile to build) or in discussion and prayer during sessions. We had a great time growing in love and brotherhood.
Right now, I am pulling a late night due to the gift of Saturday sleep in Mass at 11:30. I am researching a paper for my Augustine class and trying to develop an Augustinian Theology of the Body (which given the reputation some scholars give him, sounds like a contradiction). I think it's good to rescue Augustine from the prudish anti-body stereotype that some people like to give him and show him to be a man of deep appreciation for God's gift of the body and how it impacts our identity as humans. I promise to not turn this blog into a series of abstracts from my papers!!! I will continue to pray for you all, pray for me.
