Tweet of the Week — Maybe of the Year

This is wonderful, from Cassidy Stinson, the young man who calls himself the Happy Seminarian, and who is just days away from becoming a Happy Priest:

12 days to #OrdinationDay:

If you wonder what impact families have on their child’s vocation, consider that when I served at Mass with my classmates this weekend, all three of us there were wearing stoles that belonged to our fathers and grandfathers. pic.twitter.com/nvern3D5dW

— Cassidy Stinson (@HappySeminarian) May 21, 2019

UPDATE: A deacon sent me this smartphone picture from Sunday, which shows another beautiful fruit of the diaconate. Father-and-son deacons serving together one last time before the son is ordained a priest. Beautiful. (Excuse me…something is in my eye…)