For my British readership
Some of good friends of mine and their high school age son are in London visiting their son who is studying in Wales.Do you have any recommendations as to what they should see before returning home?The high schooler has aksed if the London Dungeons are worth seeing.

Too much of a production?
A priest-friend of mine e-mailed a request to help hear his second graders' First Confessions. The way in which he offered the invitation both made me laugh out loud and has given a bit of food for thought:Nothing fancy… my focus on these things is not to make a big production for the second graders. We wo

The sitting room
N.B.: For some reason, Blogger will not let me move these pictures. There were intended to go within the text below.

Sleepless nights
I apparently was not the only priest to sleep precious little during the course of the night. In my case, I suspect the weather is still up to something...Another priest put his sleepless night to work (I've been working on a redesigning the format for the parishes bulletins) and put together a list of things on his Facebook page people may not know about priests [with my comments]:The absolute worst time to tell us anything important is in the receiving line after Mass. Don't expect us to remember... [He's right, you know]We are very flattered that people think of us when they go to Mass on their vacation, but we don't collect bulletins from other paris

Simple things
Last evening one of the parishioners invited me over for an evening with the high school students from Sacred Heart parish. The idea was to have an evening of "fun with Fr. Daren."Two of the moms prepared salad, bread and desserts and I made my (well, Giada de Laurentiis' [I didn't make the meatballs but I bet those would be good]) rigatoni all'amatriciana. It's an unbelievably simple dish that yields a most delicious result.