Getting started

Its funny where God will send you when you are open to being sent.

It wasn't too long ago that I was working in Washington, DC, behind a desk in an office, but since discerning God's call to his ordained Priesthood I have been everywhere and almost anywhere you can imagine. I have been to the Capitals of Europe and also to the refugee camps outside the capitals of Europe, to religious shrines and also to some of the most irreligious places in the world. Being a seminarian on The Way to Priesthood is about being available to go anywhere in the Vineyard of the Lord, but I never expect to be sent here.

For the next eight weeks my Bishop has sent me out into the Vineyard, literally. I am assigned to Martha's Vineyard to Good Shepherd's parish. This blog is a journal of my experiences on the island, as well as a collection of meditations I prepared while here, photo's, and thoughts about my approaching ordination to the Diaconate on October 4th, 2007, and to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ, God willing, sometime in June of 2008.

I hope you enjoy this blog. Please pray for my two classmates and me who will be ordained Priests for the Diocese of Fall River next June, pray for Vocations, and pray for our Bishop George and Benedict our Pope.

In Prayer we are One in Christ Jesus,

Ron Floyd