Posting may be slow and irregular for a while. The Order has transferred me from parish ministry back to full-time study, and though I am living at a parish where I will have the privilege of offering Sunday Mass, I won't always be preaching. It's mostly a Spanish-speaking community, and it will take me a while to warm up my Spanish to the level of Sunday preaching. There are also three permanent deacons here, who also preach.
So, why not visit me on my general purpose blog, a minor friar.
At the Bottom of the Chalice
15 hours ago
4 comments:
Thanks for the posting this note. I had worried about you, but I was reading your other blog. I did not realize it was the same person!! Now I know!
I wish I lived closer because, as a language professional, I could help you with that Spanish. I taught English to a visiting priest from Colombia, and everyone remarked on how quickly he became proficient; he began celebrating the English Masses the very first week he began his lessons. I used the Bible as the textbook -- for content, vocabulary, even grammar, the practice of which I based on manipulating tenses of the Bible verses, or making them negative or into questions. (Of course, there was Santa Biblia to compare it to if anything was not understood.) I attend Spanish Masses on Sunday, and Spanish is not my native language (although it is the native language of most of the people in San Juan Bautista where I live, so, in addition, I read the related short daily passages in La Vida y la Fe for the contemporary Spanish vocabulary.
Blessings on this worthy endeavor!
Thank you for your encouragement!
cool blog
May God be with you!
Abbbey ♥
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