Carrying each others burdens (Galatians 6:2)
Well, what a day...I had said after all to watch this space for the 100th blog post! Little did I know that it would be to pen some thoughts at the end of a historic day. I am sure you all know by now but this morning our beloved Pope Benedict XVI announced his abdication of office as the Pope, the first to do so in over 600 years. The morning here at Deschatelets started out in somewhat of a fuzz, low blood pressure not helping the situation. Here in our Oblate residence the Fathers have started showing a movie every Tuesday to try and encourage us to further our French and to create a sense of community. This week, irony of ironies the movie showing is ‘Habemus Papem’ (note: the movie was chosen last Friday!). However, yesterday being our foundation anniversary and feastday, I took a break from the study and decided to watch the movie in the original Italian. So all this is in my head when my Oblate confreres come up and tell me about the Pope (granted I hadn’t seen any news at th...