Bob Rottgers' Mission Trip

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I have just completed my first week of classes and the home work is not too bad yet. I am taking 18 credits this quarter and the following is my schedule for the week

Monday and Thursday:          7:40 Am                        Mass

                                       8:10 AM                        Breakfast

                                       10:45 AM – 12:05 PM     Paul as Pastor

                                       12:15 PM                        Lunch

Monday Only            1:10 PM – 4:00 Pm          Theological Reflection

                                       5:15 PM                        Evening Prayer

                                       5:30 PM                        Dinner

 

Tuesday and Friday          7:40 Am                        Mass

                                       8:10 AM                        Breakfast

                                       9:15 AM – 10:35 AM    Vocal Practicum

                                       10:45 AM – 12:05 PM          Modern Church History

                                       12:15 PM                        Lunch

                                       2:40 PM – 4:00 PM          Canon Law

                                       5:15 PM                        Evening Prayer

                                       5:30 PM                        Dinner

 

Wednesday                     10:00 AM – 11:30 AM          Formation Meeting

                                       12:15 PM                        Lunch

                                       4:45 PM                        Mass

                                       5:30 PM                        Dinner

                                       7:00 PM – 8:00              Cam Meeting

                                                                             ( the Hall I live on)

 

This may not look like to much be we still have to schedule in a 1 hour Spiritual Direction meeting, a 1 hour formation meeting, about 2 to 3 hours of homework a day and I also volunteer as a chaplain at a local fire department. Free time can soon become a very valuable item around here.

On August 18th I met eight other seminarians in McKee Kentucky to help work on homes in the mountains of Kentucky. We helped a group that works for CAP which was started by a Catholic Priest and serves the poor in Appalachia. In four days we replaces a roof and five windows on one house and two doors and siding on another. It was hot!!!!  Three of the four days was over one hundred degrees. I really enjoyed getting the know the other guys better and we played Monopoly most nights.

 

I hope you are all doing well and you are in my prayers

 

Yours in Christ

 

Bob Rottgers