Hello once again my friends!!! It has been quite awhile since my last posts. In fact, I have been home for over two months. I still have a few posts coming that involve Rome and my excursion to Egypt. But in between those posts I’m going to start posting some short reflections and once in Read more
While in Rome I was fortunate enough to find some very good deals on flights to some places that one wouldn’t automatically think to go while studying in Europe. One of these places was Cairo, Egypt. I was doubly blessed because this little excursion happened a few weeks before the Christmas persecutions of Christians and Read more
Hello everyone!! As most of know Thanksgiving is an American holiday. So I thought that this year I was only going to able to celebrate in my heart. Thankfully, I was wrong. The director of our program, Santa Casciani, brought us to her town, L’Aquila, and cooked for us an entire Thanksgiving meal with all Read more
The five of us seminarians have been blessed to have a priest from the diocese here in Rome with us. Fr. Mark Ott, who originally hails from the Portage Lakes area, is getting his Doctorate in scripture here in Rome. He was able to spend the day with us in Assisi. I must confess Read more
In mid November my buddy Pat and I headed for the Island of Santorini. It is a small island in Greece located in the Aegean Sea. Although we had a lot of rain we still had a great time. Our first day we headed for a local winery that sold the local Santorini wine called Read more
Hello Everyone! My return home is fast approaching and I can hardly wait to see everyone. I wanted to tell you a little about the Ponte Sant’Angelo (Bridge of Angels). This bridge was built in the 2nd century to cross the Tiber River and lead straight to the mausoleum which was built for the Emporer Read more
Ciao!!! I know I said I would have Assisi and a few other posts up first, but the Forum Romanum (Roman Forum) is right next to the Colosseum so I thought a few sentences and pics would be appropriate. The Roman Forum was the center of Roman life. There were temples, shrines, public offices and Read more
Hello Everyone!!! I hope everyone is enjoying the fall weather. It’s chilly here, but it doesn’t compare to fall in Ohio. I hear that everyone has been enjoying the blog…that’s great. Maybe I’ll continue writing after I return. I also hear that the Spark Faith programs have been going well. I want to encourage everyone Read more
Our final sight seeing excursion of the trip was to the Chora Church. The church that stands on this sight today was built in the 11th century, but the original was built in the 6th century. For those of you who don’t know I’m a big fan of ecclesiastical art especially mosaic work, and the Read more
Our final day in Istanbul was on a Sunday. I did my research before we left and found a Catholic Church that had an English Mass. We arrived at St. Anthony of Padua and were a bit taken back because everyone was either African or Korean. Not that being African or Korean is bad but Read more
Saturday Morning: 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 6:15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 am
