Happy Tidings

Happy Easter to everyone!  

Easter here was good and holy as it should be.   Especially exciting to my roomate who got engaged on Easter Sunday.  She's very excited, as she should be, and is jumping right into the wedding plans.  

I knew she was going to get engaged at some point.  However I was thinking it was going to be some time next year instead of being so soon.  For me it was somewhat of a rude awakening of my own situation, especially since she is almost a year younger than me.  But I'm slowly learning to be comfortable with my own situation, and while I am conscious of my un-romantic life I am for now contenting myself to live vicariously through my roomate, the not quite yet twenty year old who is getting married next year.  

RIP Br. Pascal

I was told that I should post this so I thought I would....

My favorite memory that I have of Br. Pascal was how on Holy Thursday when the Abbot would wash the feet of the other monks, Br. Pascal was always one of those brothers. And even when he wasn't doing well the others would help him to his seat and help him with his shoes so that he could be served by the Abbot.

The fact that the Abbot washes the feet of the others has always meant a lot to me, and I think back to it a lot when I think about service and how those of us who are the leaders are called to be less than those people that we serve. And the fact that Br. Pascal was always one of those who was served especially meant a lot to me. Just to see how the others cared for him, and gave him that special spot showed me how much they loved him, and how much they cared for him, and it reminds me daily of how much I have to learn about love, and how much I don't love those around me as I should.