Christmas Day

It's Christmas Day and it's grey.

Fr. Tom Firestone is leaving St. Mary's Student Parish. The Christmas Eve midnight mass was his last mass with the parish. I can still remember the first mass I attended at St. Mary's in the fall of 1997; I was new, and so was he. Later that year, I made an appointment with him - I was due for confession before Easter. When I told him about my frequent use of profanity, he chuckled ever so briefly and softly. A football fan, he never failed to add something about the Wolverines in his sermon the day after a game. It's a little painful to see him go, knowing I'll never see him again. Soon, he'll be another memory from my undergraduate days.

On that note, it seems inopportune to say this, but Happy Christmas to everyone out there.

Posted by Monoceros at December 25, 2004 12:49 PM