Today was the first day of class. We started out by visiting the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Peter Claver. For those of you from the Twin Cities, we have one of their daughter houses. If you go to major diocesan liturgies, like my ordination on May 30th (except for an act of God or Archbishop), they are the ones who wear the all grey habit and medals on red cords. They were founded by Blessed Maria Theresa Ledochowska, who was trying to raise awareness of missionary work in Africa, but was too sickly to do missionary work herself. Her order raises awareness for missionary work and funds and gives grants to other orders that apply. For example, they gave money to a religious house in the Democratic Republic of the Congo so they could build a silo because the house educates farmers in agricultural practices. They remind me a lot of my sister, whose social work degree is concerned with programs and grant writing, so that was a great way to spend the morning.
The tomb of Blessed Maria Theresa Ledochowska.
The SPS blog should have a group shot of all of us,
but I don't.
In the afternoon, we went to the Vatican museums, which was my dream job if I hadn't become a priest. So it's funny because we have the religious order ideal for the "secular" Powers child and the ideal "secular" job for the clegy Powers child. I could go on about the Vatican museums forever, but the Raphael rooms and the Sistine chapel are, of course, amazing. Tomorrow, we have the Epiphany mass with the Pope (and probably a few thousand others so pray we get good tickets far away from nuns with sharp elbows)
A few photos from the Museum
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