on the road again.

 My sincerest apologies... it was my desire to add a bit more here regarding our experience of the Exercises... however - time as well as a certain of spiritual rawness in terms of the thirty days of silence managed to get in the way. I'll do my best to share a bit more with a bit more distance & settling in.

And alas, we're off again.

...methinks the bus will take
a bit longer...

Tomorrow morning we depart for our Christmas ministries in the mountainous north. We ten have been divided into two groups of five - one group heading for Bontoc, the other heading for Tabuk. I fall into the latter group.

I could tell you the little I know at this time, and you can research at your leisure online, regarding Bontoc, Tabuk & the environs.  Rather, I'll try to share the lived experiences upon our return.

There will be mountains. And precipitation. And more tales of good folks, to be sure.



Until then, these Advent words from continuing Tertianship companion Alfred Delp, SJ, composed in his prison cell in December, 1944:

Our hearts must be keenly alert for opportunities in our own little corners of daily life. May we stand in this world, not as people in hiding but as those who help prepare the way for the Son of God.

Yes - let our prayers be for one another this Advent season that we each may indeed be preparing a way for the Son of God in our own little corners of daily life.

PAX.