Goodbye Texas! Great to See You Again, My Beloved Tennessee!
After two months of Spanish immersion in San Antonio at the Mexican American College I have returned back home to my beloved Tennessee. Texas, it was good meeting you for the first time, but Tennessee (and my other seminarian’s obligations) was calling me back home. Me and one other Nashville seminarian left on Friday 4:00am…
Visited Mission Concepión Here in San Antonio
A couple of weeks ago me and the other Nashville seminarians who were down here in San Antonio and are living at the Mexican American Catholic College (MACC) visited the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower in town for Sunday Mass in Spanish. I shared pictures of our visit in a post…
Visited National Shrine of the Little Flower
As you know from my last post, I am currently in San Antonio staying at the Mexican American Catholic College (MACC) for two months as part of the second part of my summer assignment, Spanish immersion. There are four in total of us Nashville seminarians here, and we have made it a part of our…
Arrived in San Antonio for Part 2 of Summer Assignment: Spanish Immersion
On Sunday I arrived in San Antonio, TX at the Mexican American Catholic College (MACC) for part 2 of my summer assignment: Spanish Immersion for two months (June-July) in which I will improve my Español in order to minister more effectively to the Hispanic community in my diocese as a priest someday. If you live…
Old Portable Stations of the Cross With Sliding Scenes
Here was another summer find: Whenever I’m home in Nashville I frequent Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Traditional Latin Mass. This church is the second oldest standing Catholic one in the diocese; it was built in 1859. So, you know its got some cool Catholic stuff hanging around from…
Cool Priest Home Call/Sick Kit I Found
From this summer: Here’s a really neat sick kit that I saw at the most fabulous St. Mary’s Bookstore located back home in Nashville. Sweet ain’t it? St. Mary’s Bookstore is what I like to call “Nashville’s Catholic Nirvana.” It’s a really awesome Catholic bookstore that, while it has great Catholic book selections, has a…
Summer 2019 Personal Update 3 of 3: And now we wait – The second year of seminary approaches; Basics About Seminary Formation
And now the last personal update in this series of three is that I am now in a moment of waiting. Right now I am in the middle of the very last week of summer vacation, and I leave this Sunday to go back to St. Meinrad. Where did the days go? I’ve been spending…
Summer 2019 Personal Update 2 of 3: “Chill” time after the summer assignment.
In this second update installment are some of the interesting things I did after my summer assignment ended on July 31. After the all the duties of the summer assignment are over the ideal is for us seminarians to be able to kick back a little and relax before we all travel back to our…
Summer 2019 Personal Update 1 of 3: My first summer assignment as a seminarian.
Here’s the first in a series of three updates about my activities this summer. A lot of these are from the posts I’ve made through my social media extensions over the past couple of months, and they will detail some of the things involving my first summer assignment as a seminarian. I started my summer…