Our Next Associate Pastor

As this is written, the Creighton Prep website is asking for information for "Lost Alumni." Under the Class of 1990, they are searching for Patrick Nields. He's not hiding in a cave.

He was actually on the front cover of the most recent issue of The Catholic Voice and on July 1st Fr. Pat will be our new Associate Pastor. In the meantime he will be ordained a priest on June 4th.

So you know, Nields rhymes with fields. After his ordination, he prefers to be called Fr. Pat.

The pictures above are from a Holy Land Retreat and Pilgrimage through Kenrick-Glennon Seminary. Their journey included a five-day canonical retreat on the Mount of Beatitudes and visits Jerusalem and various sites in the Holy Land. Above Dcn Pat reads during Mass on the shore of Lake Galilee. Two other pictures above are by the shores of Lake Galilee.

In the picture above, Dcn Pat (below right) is at the "Wailing Wall" of the temple in Jerusalem.

Fr. Dave spoke about Dcn Pat in the bulletin this weekend. He also noted that you will be able to meet Fr. Pat if your sign up for the Picnic with the Padres on June 26th.

Fr. Damian once noted that a priest's first parish forms him. We thank Archbishop Lucas both for gifting him to us and entrusting us to help shape him.

God's Covenant

While at the Sea of Galilee, Fr Damian took the picture above, which seems to fit in nicely with today's first reading:

 God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
“See, I am now establishing my covenant with you
and your descendants after you
and with every living creature that was with you:
all the birds, and the various tame and wild animals
that were with you and came out of the ark.
I will establish my covenant with you,
that never again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed
by the waters of a flood;
there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth.”
God added:
“This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come,
of the covenant between me and you
and every living creature with you:
I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign
of the covenant between me and the earth.
When I bring clouds over the earth,
and the bow appears in the clouds,
I will recall the covenant I have made
between me and you and all living beings,
so that the waters shall never again become a flood
to destroy all mortal beings.”

Fr Damian seems to be enjoying himself by the sea!