Short Prayer

St Benedict says, "Let your prayer be short and from the heart."

I Want My Blogger Back

Where's Faddah Longenecker? I want my priest blogger back. Where's he been? Why dontcha do more blogging eh?

FD: Okay. Okay. This has been a stressful week for me. On Monday I handed in my resignation as Chaplain at St Joseph's Catholic School. It's complicated. I love SJCS. In many ways it's a great school. I love the kids, the families, my colleagues, but it was too much trying to do two jobs--being chaplain there and being priest at Our Lady of the Rosary parish. As one person said jokingly, "You're doing two full time jobs...badly." 'Bout right.

So I'm free now to focus on being parish priest at OLR. We're building a new church. The parish is growing. Our little parish school is bouncing back from a few years of turbulence, and I've got a lot of different media and writing projects going on. Oh yeah. A wife and four kids, two dogs, some fish and all that other suburban American stuff.

I don't think I'll be idle.