What a week!\u00a0 I’ve been busy going here and there.\u00a0 It’s the last week of school so I’ve been at the school a lot.\u00a0 There was the final visits of the year\u00a0to the classrooms on Monday.\u00a0 (Pre-K celebrations were last week)\u00a0 On Tuesday morning there was the Kindergarten celebration.\u00a0 Yesterday (Thursday) was the final School Mass of the year with graduate recognition in the morning with an awards ceremony in the afternoon.\u00a0 Our Principal (Diana Oravec) is leaving the school so there was an Ice Cream Social\/Farewell for her on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n
Of course, things also continue in the parish.\u00a0 We had a staff picnic for both the parish and school staff on Monday.\u00a0 Monday afternoon was a meeting with a parishioner.\u00a0 Tuesday included an unexpected trip to the hospital to see parishioners and a home visit.\u00a0 Thursday afternoon brought another unexpected trip to the hospital.\u00a0 This included two wonderful visits each lasting around half an hour because they were good visits.<\/p>\n
There’s always administrative things to do as Pastor and time coordinating things with staff.\u00a0 Today (Friday) brings an open day on the calendar without meetings but that doesn’t mean I’m not busy.\u00a0 Of course, there is always the chance that something unexpected could come up but even without the unexpected, I have plenty I can work on today.\u00a0 With everything on my schedule, I haven’t worked on the ‘piles’ on my desk this week.<\/p>\n
I am not complaining and I am not boasting of how much I do.\u00a0 As I see it, everything I have done this week is part of being a Pastor.\u00a0 Certainly the hospital and home visits are.\u00a0 I also feel it is important to be at all the school celebrations to show support and commitment for our school and the wonderful students.\u00a0 Even the administrative work is part of being a Pastor.<\/p>\n
I do not do all this to boast.\u00a0 In fact, I know the only<\/em> reason<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>I can do all of this is because God makes it possible.\u00a0 One of the ways that I see God’s involvement is the peace I have had throughout the week.\u00a0 Left to do all this on my own, I would be worried about all the things that I haven’t gotten done.\u00a0 When I get too busy, I don’t pray often enough and lose track of God.\u00a0 With God, I have a sense of peace knowing that while I’m not getting done everything I would like to, God is taking care of it.\u00a0 I don’t need to worry.<\/p>\n How busy do you feel in your life?\u00a0 Do you set your own priorities for what gets done first or do you let God set the priorities?\u00a0 When you get too busy, are you aware of God?<\/p>\n The Gospel for Mass on Thursday was Jesus teaching his disciples the Lord’s Prayer.\u00a0 In that prayer we pray “thy will be done.”\u00a0 <\/em>Is it God’s Will we seek to do?<\/p>\n Peace,<\/p>\n Fr. Jeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a week!\u00a0 I’ve been busy going here and there.\u00a0 It’s the last week of school so I’ve been at the school a lot.\u00a0 There was the final visits of the year\u00a0to the classrooms on Monday.\u00a0 (Pre-K celebrations were last week)\u00a0 On Tuesday morning there was the Kindergarten celebration.\u00a0 Yesterday (Thursday) was the final School …<\/p>\n