Because we are in the throws of our move to New Orleans, I will allow my Blog to nap for a time.
It will give you a rest. Pray for me and I for thee. I hope to have it going again before too long.
Because we are in the throws of our move to New Orleans, I will allow my Blog to nap for a time.
It will give you a rest. Pray for me and I for thee. I hope to have it going again before too long.
I just wanted to shamelessly seek your kind prayers for the sale of our Des Moines home — here it is listed.
If you petition St Joseph, he’s about 3″ under to the right of the front door.

No, I am not superstitious; I’m just hyper-sacramental about my saints.
Grazie!
P.S. he’s fine; I included a small oxygen tank in case it gets stuffy.
Yesterday my wife and I were overjoyed to share the news of a new job I have been offered, and accepted at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, LA. I will be a professor of spiritual theology.
FL CatholicFamily becomes IA CatholicFamily becomes NOLA CatholicFamily.
Seminoles become Hawkeyes/Cyclones become Saints. X-treme, I know.
What a great privilege it will be to be able to serve the renewal of the priesthood of Jesus Christ as a theologian.
But it will be profoundly sad when we leave behind such an extraordinary community of people; the Iowa saints.