New Message from our Seminarian Jamie Hickman
September 2014
Dear Tim,
Thank you for making contact. It's great to hear from you. Welcome to the new GK and thank you for your service to the council down in Georgia.
I had a great summer assignment in Staunton, VA, just west of Charlottesville, at St. Francis of Assisi parish. My pastor and main supervisor is a priest from Uganda, a very Catholic country. We also were blessed to have a retired priest in residence who celebrated his 60th anniversary of priestly ordination. He is from Ireland and was ordained there, but immediately sent to Washington, DC, to serve Catholics in America. Sixty years later he's still a solid American priest with a solid Irish brogue.
I am in Rome doing laundry as I type this e-mail. Tomorrow at 12:30 I'll depart Rome for Greccio, the site of the first nativity by Saint Francis about 800 years ago. I'll be there on silent retreat with my classmates from the North American College (NAC). When I get back next Saturday we'll be entering ordination week for the fourth year men who will be ordained deacons on Thursday 02 October. Life is good. I've been in Italy studying Italian the last couple months and have bonded well with my classmates. This afternoon a few of us who studied philosophy together in DC made a video from our rooftop, which offers a commanding view of St. Peter's Basilica, to cheer on our old friends from the previous seminary who are about to host the Vianney Cup, a soccer tournament among four seminaries on the east coast.
I ask for your prayers as I enter this silent retreat. I'll be away from comms (no electronics at all) for the week, but will check back in next weekend. Perhaps we could arrange a teleconference with the council at some point. I've used FaceTime (I have a Mac) with my diocese and with family and friends to stay in touch. It would be nice to hear from the other Knights directly at some point.
Thank you for all of your continued generous support. Seminary is a unique challenge. It's a good place to discover where I have met the Lord and also all the various areas where the Lord has sought me and I've declined the offer either knowingly or mistakenly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greccio
God bless you,
Jamie
in Christ,
James W. Hickman
Seminarian, Diocese of Richmond
Thank you for making contact. It's great to hear from you. Welcome to the new GK and thank you for your service to the council down in Georgia.
I had a great summer assignment in Staunton, VA, just west of Charlottesville, at St. Francis of Assisi parish. My pastor and main supervisor is a priest from Uganda, a very Catholic country. We also were blessed to have a retired priest in residence who celebrated his 60th anniversary of priestly ordination. He is from Ireland and was ordained there, but immediately sent to Washington, DC, to serve Catholics in America. Sixty years later he's still a solid American priest with a solid Irish brogue.
I am in Rome doing laundry as I type this e-mail. Tomorrow at 12:30 I'll depart Rome for Greccio, the site of the first nativity by Saint Francis about 800 years ago. I'll be there on silent retreat with my classmates from the North American College (NAC). When I get back next Saturday we'll be entering ordination week for the fourth year men who will be ordained deacons on Thursday 02 October. Life is good. I've been in Italy studying Italian the last couple months and have bonded well with my classmates. This afternoon a few of us who studied philosophy together in DC made a video from our rooftop, which offers a commanding view of St. Peter's Basilica, to cheer on our old friends from the previous seminary who are about to host the Vianney Cup, a soccer tournament among four seminaries on the east coast.
I ask for your prayers as I enter this silent retreat. I'll be away from comms (no electronics at all) for the week, but will check back in next weekend. Perhaps we could arrange a teleconference with the council at some point. I've used FaceTime (I have a Mac) with my diocese and with family and friends to stay in touch. It would be nice to hear from the other Knights directly at some point.
Thank you for all of your continued generous support. Seminary is a unique challenge. It's a good place to discover where I have met the Lord and also all the various areas where the Lord has sought me and I've declined the offer either knowingly or mistakenly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greccio
God bless you,
Jamie
in Christ,
James W. Hickman
Seminarian, Diocese of Richmond