That's What I'm Talking About
Today after Liturgy, our priest announced the
imminent departure of one of head altar boys to seminary (in Thessaloniki
). Apparently another young man headed off to seminary this past week. I'm
assuming to Holy
Cross in Brookline, MA. What's particularly neat is to see two young
men heading directly into seminary out of high school. It speaks well of the
families and the parish that these men were raised up in a way that they are
immediately willing (as are their families) for them to respond to the
call.The other neat thing that
happened today was that the one seminarian, as this was his last day, quizzed
the altar boys (back in the altar boy room) as to how many had eaten breakfast
that morning, and how many had observed the fasting days during the week. I
really like it when the older boys encourage the practice of the faith like
this. Within Orthodoxy, we are no longer the oddballs - asking our children to
behave in a manner different than that of all other children within the
parish.
Posted: Sunday - September 03, 2006 at 02:34 PM
