Deacon Greg 3-13-22
This past week I had the joy of renewing my connection with the Xaverian Brothers Sponsored Schools System, XBSS, as I returned to West Hartford, CT to speak at their annual student leadership retreat. After a two-year shutdown, I returned for my 18th year, as I offer Junior and Senior high school participants a presentation on discipleship and with an emphasis on God’s call to ministry within their school communities. Centered today in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, this congregation of St. Francis Xavier was founded in the by Fr. Theodore Ryken in 1839 and is dedicated to education, with a general mission of helping their students “Fall in Love with the Service of God.” One of their original schools, St. X in Louisville, still stands after being founded in 1864. The core Xavierian Values include Compassion, Simplicity, Trust, Humility, and Zeal. So let’s check in here on week two of our Lenten journey and ask ourselves, how are we showing one another compassion in our reaching into