Since I arrived in Boston on Friday, it has been one grand introduction and orientation for the new year. Fr. Tom, the Assistant to the Postulants and our primary contact for formation, rightly pointed out this morning that today is the last of the "first" days that we will have for a while.
Our four new postulants are excited and enthusiastic beginning their first year of formation with us, even pooling our various skills in the kitchen to cook dinner for the community on Saturday night. Fr. Jeremy took us on a hike on the T and then walking across the Charlestown bridge to see the USS Constitution, finally catching a bite of ice cream before returning home for dinner. We enjoyed a few games of Bocce ball and Wiffle ball after the Labor Day dinner with the combined communities of Oblates from St Clement's and St Joseph's Retreat House in Milton.
Today we began a new year of seminary intellectual formation with our first class meetings in philosophy. This promises to be another great semester!
We are all trying to get back into the swing of things with a few good changes and a bunch of new faces, but things are settling down quite nicely.
Love the Immaculata!
Mariam cogita, Mariam invoca
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