Headed to Springfield!

Illinois, that is.

I’ll be giving a retreat to deacon candidates this weekend, as they receive the ministry of lector from Bishop Thomas Paprocki.

If you’re in the neighborhood, stop by and say hello.

Here’s a blast from the past, meantime: a picture from March of 2005, when I was instituted in the ministry of lector by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio.

Keep us all in your prayers—especially the candidates. If I had to listen to me for the next three days, I’d start to gaze longingly in the direction of the Carthusians…