Busy Fall Season

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mati0n that I have from the internet the fall or autumn season officially begins today, September 22, at 10:48 AM Central Daylight Time. So that's about the time I am writing this.

As usual for us the fall season turns out to be a rather busy time. We had three or four groups of retreatants here this past weekend. This evening we have about 75-80 priests coming from the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas for their annual continuing education workshop. They leave on Thrusday and then Friday and Saturday we have our annual alumni reunion. So you can see the guest house keeps rather busy this time of year, especially making beds, cleaning rooms, bathrooms etc. Soon after that we will be having Family Weekend for the students and then after that the Kansas City-St. Joseph priests come for a continuing education workshop.

I am again including a couple more older pictures in this blog. Sitting at his desk in his room is Father Patrick Cummins, O.S.B., a famous scholar in our community for many years. He died in 1968 but taught many of the "old timers" who went to school at Conception. The other picture is a young picture of then Frater Jerome Hanus, O.S.B. Later on in 1977, as Father Jerome, he was elected abbot of our community and in 1987 was appointed bishop. He is presently the Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa.

This past weekend was an off campus weekend for the students. They were all due to be back last night.

That's it for this time. Let us keep each other in prayer.

Fr. Kenneth