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Several, actually.\u00a0 Holy Family in Kirkland, Washington had their big family conference this past weekend and had both Scott Hahn and Jason Stellman <\/a>speak.\u00a0 Jason is a former Presby pastor who has, with tremendous courage, converted to the Catholic faith\u2013alone in his family\u2013and left behind all job security out of conscience.\u00a0 He is a huge gift to the Church.\u00a0 (So if you know of anybody who can use a gifted writer, speaker, administrator, creative visionary, and gung ho Catholic, contact him at his site.)<\/p>\n

It was good to catch up with those guys.\u00a0 Scott was his ebullient, brilliant and inspiring self, delightfully departing from the script to say what needed said rather than what was scheduled to be\u00a0said.\u00a0 I love the man.\u00a0 Also good to see\u00a0as well was Tom Curran<\/a>, another tremendously gifted Catholic teacher.\u00a0 He lives here in the Seattle area and we are lucky to have him.\u00a0 He\u2019s one of the people I hope to be when I grow up.<\/p>\n

I saw lots of other friends and acquaintances there too, but one of the unexpected surprises was running into the wonderful Sr. Mary Eucharista from Spokane:<\/p>\n

She\u2019s one of those people who has a genius for making everybody she meets feel like a million bucks. She\u2019s gonna go straight to heaven when she dies, so I try cultivate relationships with people like her in the hope that God will be suckered by her prayers for me and not notice he\u2019s letting a jackass into heaven when I show up at the Pearly Gates. I loves ya, Sister!<\/p>\n

The conference was really a shot in the arm and full of all sorts of grace I\u2019m still absorbing. Thanks be to God!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"