Principal Bob Voboril

One week ago today Fr. Damian and Dcn David were in Wichita for their Stewardship Conference. One of the presenters was Bob Voboril who is their Superintendent of Catholic Schools. From 1980 to 1990 he was our principal.

They presented him with this picture which he is in. His immediate response was, "This was taking in 1983" and he began naming staff members. He visited at length about memories of the school and the parish.It even became part of his presentation.

Deacon David told him, "In 2016 you should come to to celebrate 100 years of the school."

Mr. Voboril responded, "You'll have to invite me."

Do Whatever He Tells You

Last week Kaitlyn Maloney (Stewardship & Development Coordinator for the Omaha Archdiocese), Mary Buttell (Director of Stewardship at St. Robert's) and Deacon David attended the Monsignor McGread Conference at the Spiritual Life Center in Wichita, Kansas. The conference was about the Spirituality of Stewardship and how that can be lived.

As you enter the Spiritual Life Center there is a sculpture based on the Wedding Feast at Cana (John 2). Bishop Gerber has meditated upon this feast for decades. First is Mary interceding to Jesus on behalf of the wedding couple saying, "There is no wine."

Although Mary is present in scripture from the Annunciation to Pentecost, the last time she is quoted is in John 2:5 when she tells the servants, "Do whatever He tells you."

The servants can then serve wine to the guests.

Then the wedding couple is told,

 "thou hast kept the best wine until now."

"As we are transformed into Christ, as we put on His mind, as we follow Him down the road listening to His word and eating His body and blood, our lives take on a different coloration, emit an enhanced fragrance and an increase in faith... the best wine always yet to come."

Eugene Gerber, Bishop Emeritus of Wichita