It has been about a month since I last posted, so I thought it would be time for an update. Things are going well for me at the cathedral. My assignment this summer is certainly more low-key than last summer. I have been doing various tasks around the parish, such as organizing the diocesan vestments and updating the alumni directory from our parish school with the past ten years worth of graduates. Today was a bit of a crazy day since there was a special Mass at the cathedral for the vicar of clergy’s 25th anniversary of ordination. Both Bishop Doran and our former bishop, Bishop O’Neal, were in attendance, which is what really made things more complicated (I was the assistant MC).
My thesis work has been progressing nicely. I have not started doing research in full, but I have spent my time relearning Latin. Since it is a Canon Law thesis, I need to be able to read the canons in Latin. I had taken Latin for two semesters in grad school, but that was over three years ago now, and I had forgotten most of it. I try to do a chapter in Wheelock’s a day, excepting Thursdays (my day off) and Sundays. I should be finished with Wheelock’s before the summer is over, at which point I can start reading over the sources I have already found for my thesis.
The summer is really going by quickly. It is hard to believe that July begins this week. Before I know it, the summer will be over and I will be back at Kenrick for my Theology III year.