Summer 2008

I have been at the Institute for Priestly Formation at Creighton University for just over a month now. This is truly an outstanding and necessary program for seminarians to attend. The 8-day Ignatian retreat is the highlight, as they say it is here, but the classes, the faculty, and the mood of the program are also extraordinary. The pictures of the Chapel on the website are old. The Chapel has been beautifully renovated in the last two years.

Omaha is full of fun and excitement. In June, some of the seminarians went with me to the German Day celebration at the German American Society of Omaha. We had Warsteiner beer and Brats, Schnitzel sandwiches, German Potato Salad, and Sauerkraut, with the folks in traditional German attire, sprechen-ing ein bisschen deutsch, and having a gut old zeit. There were band and good fun. Yeah, culture!

I am sure you have heard of the tornadoes and other wild weather that haunt Omaha summers. We have fared well so far, but have come close to some violent winds.

Just wanted to check in. I hope to update this post with some more details, when I get them together. Enjoy and relax this summer. Relish the leisure, contemplate the higher things, love the life God has given you, drink a beer and sit outside with friends and music, and...

have a safe and Happy Fourth of July!

Pax Christi

Der Friede des Herrn sei allezeit mit euch.