Friday, September 16, 2011

COOLER WEATHER -- PROGRESS ON NEW GUEST HOUSE

Work continues on the new guest house.  I am putting some pictures on this blog to bring you up to date on how it is progressing.  They are still hoping to get it enclosed before the winter weather sets in.  The last week or so it has been much cooler.  In fact most days recently it has not gotten above the 50's and 60's.  Good sleeping weather for sure, but difficult to get out of bed in the mornings.  




Last weekend I helped at St. Andrew Parish in Gladstone, MO, a suburb of Kansas City north of the Missouri river.  It was a busy weekend with one Mass Saturday evening and three on Sunday.  The last Mass on Sunday was not until 6:30 PM so on Sunday afternoon my friends Benjamin and Alicia Darnell and their little son Isaac came out to see me.  They just recently moved back to the Kansas City area from Dayton, Ohio and Ben is now working as youth minister at Queen of the Holy Rosary parish at Bucyrus, KS.   It was good to see them again and it is good to know they are now much closer than they were.

On Monday Ben's parents Rick and Sandy Darnell came to see me here at Conception, spending Monday night.  They live in Phoenix, Arizona but had been in Missouri for some days on vacation.  

Tomorrow on Saturday I go to Trenton, MO.  Tomorrow afternoon I will preside at the wedding of a cousin of mine, Marie Gladbach.  Her Dad and my mother were brother and sister.  Her Dad is now deceased but her mother is still living and is 96 years old.  She plans to be at the wedding.  

They have also poured the concrete for the Health Care Center parking lot.   Parking in this lot will be only for staff members and guests of the residents in the Health Care Center.  We are not able to park on the area yet but will be soon, as the concrete cures more.
Oblates of Conception Abbey:  Don't forget to register for the oblate retreat October 7-9, 2011.  Register by contacting the guest department:  e-mail = guests@conception.edu or phone 660-944-2809. 

God bless all of you.  Let us pray for one another.