After the Easter festivities, I visited my brother and sister-in-law’s house. I took the kids Mikey (my godson age 5) and my twin nieces, Ava and Julia (3) to Friendly’s for lunch and ice cream. I dropped the girls at home so they could nap and afterwards I took Mikey bowling. I like bowling but [...]

After a beautiful Easter Vigil, I slept late (9:30) the next morning. I chillaxed with my brothers and sisters. At 11, I left with my brother Brendan to stake out some pews in church. We got 2 pews which was enough for 14 of us. That’s right, 14 for mass. I am not sure if [...]

I just returned from the Easter Vigil and I am stoked!
Alleluia!!!
I love the Easter Vigil, my favorite part of it is this…

This year hearing the Easter Proclamation sung well is even better. Since this is a Franciscan site/blog, I will offer a brief grip though with one line “Oh, happy fault! Oh, necessary sin of [...]

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What have I been up to recently?
1. I attended my first ever live auction at a fundraiser to benefit Archbishop Curley High School
2. I visited with some families from my pastoral assignment last school year.
3. Celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with some dear friends
4. [...]

Today, I attended my first field trip since I was in high school and it was a lot of fun!
The art teacher asked me if I would help chaperone a trip to the Baltimore Museum of Art. He wanted to bring two classes of his students, almost 30 kids. This visit was my first to [...]

Days like this don’t come around often! All of the sophomores went on a field trip to Gettysburg. I taught my freshman first period. We went through Matthew’s Infancy Narratives and listed the way Jesus is the “New Moses.” I had three sophomore classes afterwards that had a grand total of 9 students who didn’t [...]

Yesterday was a BIG first period. I was observed by the Academic Vice-Principal. During the school year, I was/will be observed three times, twice by my department chair and one time by the vice-principal. We were doing a lesson on the rite of baptism so in class we did it!!!
One of the students was vested [...]

after school yesterday was the annual Faculty/Student basketball game. I volunteered immediately and the week or so before the game I engaged in a bit of playful banter (some might call it trash talking) with a couple of the students. I included in the banter my desire to “dunk on” the center who is approximately [...]