July 31, 2010

Happy St. Ignatius of Loyola Day.
One thought from the writings of Iggy the Basque Founder of the Jesuits:
He might ask you if you have a made a good Examination of Conscience Today?
How to do that?
1) Give thanks to God for the benefits received
2) Ask for the grace to know your sins and rid yourself of them
3) Give an account of your soul from the time you got up until the moment of the examen
4) Ask for pardon for your faults
5) Resolve, with God's grace, to do better.
...say an Our Father

I had to cut loose the person with whom I was negotiating the possibility of aThift Shoppe. I thought, at first, we had reached an agreement but further waiting and waiting and waiting and...a delay in receiving a copy of the lease just began to give me a bad feeling. Then, because of the wait, a thrift shop opens across the street from our convent. I don't want to be in competition with anyone. Now it's a wait and see game.

Sometimes obstacles are for a purpose and this trial will lead us somewhere, I am certain. In Spanish they say, vamos a ver, i.e., we'll see.

I still need one more volunteer Math teacher. Just asking for one and a half hours weekly for some advanced math work in the eighth grade. One day, morning, one and a half hours. To share with others what God has given to you.

Pax et Bonum!