Off to Maryland

Fr. Mike, Keith Strohm, and I are jetting off to Faulkner, Maryland tomorrow to offer Making Disciples. This should be interesting: we have an Australian priest, a priest from Cameroon, and a Russian Orthodox priest among our participants. The Church universal. We are in a lovely Jesuit retreat center on a bluff overlooking the Potomac.

Lord willing, I'll have dinner next Thursday with Gashwin Gomes and the Paulist novices, and also get to do some sightseeing with the gang on Sunday and by myself next Friday before doing a Day of Discernment on Saturday for the young adult leaders of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC.

The retreat center has very little internet access and I don't know what it will be like in the house of formation where I'll be staying in DC, so blogging will be limited. After November 10, I'll be blogging in earnest again.

A prayer request:

We have been inundated with amazing, Holy Spirit engineered connections and unprecedented opportunities during these these past two weeks - so many that I'm losing count. Ten in all, I think. It is hard to know what God is doing, exactly how to respond, and which will come to fruition.

Your prayers for all attending Making Disciples, for our teaching team, for all the discernment and decisions we need to make and the people and resources we need to respond to these opportunities are very greatly appreciated.