Here’s the video I took my last weekend in Verbania (which was a little more than a month ago). Brian Buettner, another OKC Archdiocese seminarian here, has been video blogging. So I decided to take his idea and add it to my blog. I hope you all enjoy it.
So here is when we went up to Castle Gandolfo, the summer residence of the Pope, to pray the Angelus. Archbishop Burke was there and joined us afterwards. It you want, flip ahead to about minute 9. We’ll sing and you might get a glimpse of me. I am on the front row. Hope you all enjoy this, I did.
I hope to have a couple of videos of the place I’ve been staying at and the waterfalls at Toce, which are supposed to be some of the best in all of Europe. Right now, I’m back in Rome. And I’m excited to be back.
Here are some pictures from a couple of trips to small churches up in the mountains. The hikes were good but exhausting. Oklahoma boys aren’t used to elevation. There are also some pictures of an island hopping trip that we took at Lake Maggiore. One of the islands belongs to the Borromeo family. If you aren’t familiar, this is the same family that gave us St. Charles Borromeo. So I hope you enjoy the pictures.
For the past two weeks or so, I’ve been here in Rome taking a second round of language courses. It’s all in preparation for the proficiency exam that I’ll be taking on the 20th of this month. So please pray for me then and also during the first week in October as I’ll be taking a Greek placement test for the university. Yesterday we capped off our orientation with a trip to the beach. I played many hours of volleyball and am red as a beet, but relaxed.
