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Harry Mary Andruschak <adoptsoldcats@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>I have just returned from a small, quiet retreat at the Mission San
>Luis Rey Retreat Center. The theme was "Living - Dying - Rising In
>Christ". I feel I am a better penitent for all this, as we
>concentrated on the Passion.
We had a bunch of catechumens getting their periodic look-over;
from time to time they've been sent off to Oakland to be reviewed
by the Bishop, but today the Bishop came here. I had never
before observed a Bishop saying Mass (seen plenty of
confirmations and so on), and was amused to see that whereas your
ordinary priest will pray "for our Pope Benedict, our Bishop
Alan, and all bishops and clergy," the Bishop's line was "for our
Pope Benedict, me your humble servant, and my brother emeritus
John" (Cummings, who retired as Bishop a couple years ago).
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>I appreciate being able to have these little getaways from my daily
>routine of work at the Post Office.
I should think so.
>
>And, yes, today marks 24 years sober in AA. How about that?
Good on you, mate!
Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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