Farewell Fr Damian

A phrase from Today's Gospel is "they begged him to leave."

There was no begging for Fr. Damian to leave St. Columbkille. Here is Fr. Damian's homily from this morning:

Although Fr. Dave was at Mass, he chose to observe rather than concelebrate. He said he wanted to "watch the master" and see how we have typically done things here.

There were farewells and hellos. Afterwards, Fr. Damian picked up his alb and his chalice and wished Fr. Dave well.

Fr. Dave said, "A lot of people will miss Fr. Damian, but no one will miss him as much as me."