I'm off to a summer-school reunion day in New Hampshire. I'm pleased to see that the winter school at St. Paul's has finally added a Catholic chaplaincy and a Sunday Mass at their beloved chapel. But I won't be staying for the whole day's program in Concord; there are country bookstores to be shopped, all the way to Sunapee.
In another summer excursion, I've signed up to attend the Thomistic theology conference next month at Ave Maria College. It'll probably be over my head technically, but at least it'll help as an orientation to the subject. Fr. Bryce expressed some interest in the conference too, and Victor's not far from there: will it be safe to bring all of our eccentricity together in one place?
All of that eccentricity in one place may cause a tear in the time-space continuum. Maybe you had better keep at least 100 feet distance from each other!
Too bad I'm out of town - I'd otherwise invite you over for tea and sympathy! Concord NH is an interesting town - I have only lived in NH for a little less than 3 years.......
Well, I knew there was something about you that bugged me RC, and now I know. St Paul's, huh? Well, at least it was only summer school.
Of course, my dear alma mater, Middlesex, is about as secular and modernist as schools go these days, so I guess I can't maintain any sense of outrage. But the tribal loyalties still come in to play.
Don't worry about me joining the beautiful people, Will. The summer school at SPS is only for us non-preppies; for better or worse, I never quite made it out of the working class.
I'm very grateful to St. Paul's for religious reasons, as I attended church services for the first time there. Their mandatory summer chapel services were non-denominational and short, often student-led, and even sometimes silly: but the words and music of the One True Hymnal (the 1940 Episcopal Hymnal) were a catechesis in themselves! "God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity -- what on earth is that talking about?"