Interesting Week

The past week has been a rather interesting week.  Seemed like there was a lot going on.  First of all, on Wednesday, October 16, my brother Harold arrived.  His son Steve and Mary brought him up here on Wednesday from Kansas City.  We had an enjoyable few days together visiting, walking, going places and even shopping.  On Thursday I took him to the Benedictine Missionary Benedictines at Schuyler, Nebraska.  That is only about an hour from here by car.  We went out to eat a couple times and other times fixed our own meals here at the house where I live.

Top row:  my Dad and Mother, then Raymond and Mary Jane,

Harold and Dee, Jim and Vera, Fr. Kenneth and Ed.

Harold and I are the only two still living, plus Vera, 

Jim's wife.

On Saturday Harold's daughter, Diane and Randy, drove up here.  We went out to eat and then visited here in the house.  They had arranged for a room at the Holiday Inn for the night.  This morning they all came to my 9:30 AM Mass at the Nursing Home and then left for Kansas City.  Harold called me this evening to tell me that they got home about 5:00 PM. 

On Friday evening Abbot Gregory arrived.  He had been in North Platte, NE to give a workshop.  When that ended about noon on Friday he drove on to Norfolk.  We went out to eat Friday evening, and then he left to drive back to Conception on Saturday morning after breakfast.  It was good to see him and visit with him.

Weather of course continues to go up and down.  The lowest I have seen it so far was a couple days this past week when it got down to the upper 20's and lower 30's.  

This coming week Fr. Tom Greisen, a priest of the Archdiocese of Omaha, is coming to visit a while and we plan to go out to dinner on Thursday.  Fr. Tom worked for a number of years in our seminary college as dean of students and vice-rector.  He had gone to school at Conception as a seminarian.

So much for this week.  Have a great week and may God bless each of you.

Fr. Kenneth
e-mail:  kenneth@conception.edu