Midsummer Update
Jul 29th, 2009 by Dan
I won’t waste time apologizing for the all-too-frequent silence here… FWIW, I don’t keep up with Facebook any better.
During the summer months, Cincinnati seminarians are scattered at various parishes/apostolates/ministries or places of employment. Only during the summer between 2nd and 3rd theology are the summer months really spoken for: most do a hospital program called CPE.
Along with three other seminarians, my plan was to spend six weeks this summer in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in our seminary “exchange” program. We annually host seminarians and priests from Honduras in the winter, then send our men in the summer to learn Spanish and experience the life of the Church in that nation.
But… this is not the summer to go to Honduras. We continue to pray for the people of that nation and hope that stability and peace are restored soon.
The coup occurred the week before we were to arrive in Tegucigalpa, so with the input of Cardinal Rodriguez, we were able to cancel the entire program for this summer with a couple of days to spare. Two of the men decided to go to San Antonio, Texas, to study Spanish through an alternate program. The other two of us chose to find alternate ways to spend our summer. Thus, unexpectedly, I am back at my internship parish of St. Albert the Great in Kettering, OH.
My prior post was written on the eve of my class’ trip to the Holy Land. I have tons to share from that trip. I will break this incredible trip up into a few different posts… so stay tuned.