Temporary Infirmary

This is the nurses station for the temporary infirmary
located on the first floor of the monastery.

This used to be the oblate office only. Now it is the
oblate office, my infirmary office and the office
for the head nurse in the infirmary.

This picture is looking back to the infirmary resident
rooms in their temporary quarters. Taken from the
nurses station area.

This has been a rather busy week as we moved everything from our infirmary into temporary quarters located on the first floor of the monastery. There was a lot of furniture and other things to be either moved or stored someplace until after we finish the renovation of the infirmary. The walls will be taken out, the rooms made larger, the bathrooms made larger and central air conditioning put in. On Friday of this week we moved the residents over to the new temporary quarters and now we are trying to get thing located and in some kind of order so we can find things.

Last weekend I was home to preside at the wedding of my grand niece Jamie and her husband John. It was a beautiful wedding and a very large crowd was present for the wedding. After the wedding there was a reception, dinner and dance. Since I was very tired I left before the dancing began.

Today, May 30, is my 50th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. I along with four other monks were ordained by Bishop John Cody on May 30, 1959. I am the only one of the five still living. Next Sunday, June 7, I will go to my hometown, Brunswick, Missouri to celebrate a Mass and dinner at St. Boniface Church. I was baptized there as well as made my first communion, was confirmed, celebrated my first solemn Mass there, went to eight years of grade school there, have buried my parents and three of my brothers from that parish and served numerous Masses there as a young person. So I have many ties to that parish and still have many relatives living there. I am grateful for all I have received from this parish as well as from the monastic community here at Conception and many relatives and friends. Please keep me in prayer as I will you.

Many monks are coming and going these days as is usual once school is out and we have made our annual retreat.