In the interests of not posting a ton of blog entries here, I will summarize many different topics in one post:
- The KGB Lions soccer team (at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary) will be having their final match this Sunday at 1:00 p.m. on the Seminary soccer field. Thanks to all our faithful fans who have helped us to have our best season in many years! There was even an article about the Lions in this past week's edition of the Review.
- The annual Seminary Novena will begin next Monday night (Monday, December 5) at 7:30 p.m. in the Kenrick-Glennon Seminary's St. Joseph's Chapel, and will continue every night thereafter (at the same time) until the next Wednesday (December 14). Admission is free, and the Novena is open to anyone who is interested in coming. There will be many different priests coming to give great homilies, and our choir will sing beautiful songs they've been working on for over a month now!
- The Pope has declared a plenary indulgence for December 8 (the feast of the Immaculate Conception): "In a November 29 announcement, the Vatican said that Pope Benedict has declared the indulgence to mark the 40th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. The announcement indicates that the Pope "when he renders public homage of praise to Mary Immaculate, has the heartfelt desire that the entire Church should join with him, so that all the faithful, united in the name of the common Mother, become ever stronger in the faith, adhere with greater devotion to Christ, and love their brothers with more fervent charity." Source: EWTN.
- On December 9, the movie Narnia will be released by Disney. Being an great fan of C.S. Lewis, I was a little distraught when I read he might not have approved of this theatrical release, but I am still looking forward to seeing the movie as soon as possible. The Chronicles of Narnia were some of the best works of literature I've read, and I heartily recommend them to anyone of any age able to read.
- I will be having an extraordinarily busy couple of weeks, so I won't be able to do much online... but I will keep all of you who have requested me to pray for you in my prayers.
- To those of you in the St. Louis Archdiocese: Be on the lookout for a Seminarian at your parish Masses - we will be visiting many of the parishes in our Archdiocese to speak to you about the upcoming Christmas collection, and to meet with and talk to the faithful of the Archdiocese (it's great to be in the parishes every once in a while!).