Gianiculum Trek

There are benefits to being new in town. I was invited to go up to the seminary yesterday to help with homily review. Obviously, no one around here has had to endure my homilies yet . . .

It was a lot of fun. The second year men were trying out their first runs at preaching. They were well prepared, and all were working from Luke's parable of the Prodigal Son: it certainly doesn't hurt to hear several reflections on that! Neat turns of phrase, too, like, 'it should actually be called the Prodigal Father, because he's the one who's reckless in mercy . . . '

Afterwards stayed for their holy hour and vespers, and then joined our two Sacramento seminarians for dinner--it was great to see them! When Father Chris gets here, that will make four of us . . . well, I think--my specialty is homilies, not math.