Hello all!
This will be my mode of keeping the world (or at least my friends and those who are interested) up to date on the next 10 days of my life. A brief summary of what I will be doing. The Notre Dame Folk Choir tours in Ireland every few years and over the past few trips they realized that they were seeing fewer and fewer people in the Churches that they visited. Now compared to the world this is no big surprise, sadly this is happening everywhere, but it took back a few members of this group from Notre Dame. We are the Fighting Irish and are quite proud of that heritage, just like we are quite proud of our Catholicism (and our catholicism). So to see the land that brought our faith to us struggling in its own faith was a bit discomforting.
In response the Folk Choir with the help of a few primary leaders and a few blessed benefactors established a lay ministry community in Wexford Ireland call Teach Bhride (or the House of Brigid) and this is my destination. I could and would love to go on about the program, but for a more convenient way here is the link to the Teach Bhride website: http://www.houseofbrigid.org/ I was blessed with the opportunity from the Nanovic Institute and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish studies to be supported in my endeavour to immerse myself in this ministry and see if it is not only a fit for the Church in Ireland, but also a possible fit for me in the future.
When I return I will definitely be a more informed person, but I also bet that I will be a changed person. This blog (the spell check while typing in a blog thinks that the word "blog" doesn't exist... o irony) will help me to keep track of my experiences and will help to form the work that I hope to do when I get back. I hope you enjoy, and my goal will be to post everyday/night. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers... the first of which are for a safe trip :-)
This will be my mode of keeping the world (or at least my friends and those who are interested) up to date on the next 10 days of my life. A brief summary of what I will be doing. The Notre Dame Folk Choir tours in Ireland every few years and over the past few trips they realized that they were seeing fewer and fewer people in the Churches that they visited. Now compared to the world this is no big surprise, sadly this is happening everywhere, but it took back a few members of this group from Notre Dame. We are the Fighting Irish and are quite proud of that heritage, just like we are quite proud of our Catholicism (and our catholicism). So to see the land that brought our faith to us struggling in its own faith was a bit discomforting.
In response the Folk Choir with the help of a few primary leaders and a few blessed benefactors established a lay ministry community in Wexford Ireland call Teach Bhride (or the House of Brigid) and this is my destination. I could and would love to go on about the program, but for a more convenient way here is the link to the Teach Bhride website: http://www.houseofbrigid.org/ I was blessed with the opportunity from the Nanovic Institute and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish studies to be supported in my endeavour to immerse myself in this ministry and see if it is not only a fit for the Church in Ireland, but also a possible fit for me in the future.
When I return I will definitely be a more informed person, but I also bet that I will be a changed person. This blog (the spell check while typing in a blog thinks that the word "blog" doesn't exist... o irony) will help me to keep track of my experiences and will help to form the work that I hope to do when I get back. I hope you enjoy, and my goal will be to post everyday/night. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers... the first of which are for a safe trip :-)
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