Annual Priest Institute

So...what's on the calendar for today? Depends which one you're looking at...

• 1962: Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost (also, May 25th is the 3rd class feast of Pope St. Gregory VII with a commemoration of Pope St. Urban I.)
• 1969: Tuesday in the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time (optional memorial of Venerable Bede, of Pope St. Gregory VII, and of St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi.)

For those of you who say the Liturgy of the Hours, I would highly recommend the second reading from the Office of Readings today for St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi. She speaks ever so beautifully of the Holy Spirit, which is most appropriate during this Pentecost week.

Anyway, I am off to our annual Priest Institute. This is an opportunity for the priests of our diocese to get together and relax, to engage in some continuing education (this year there will be a fantastic presentation on the new translations of the Mass), and to honor our jubiliarians. It should be a gala event. Nonetheless, it's about a 4 hour drive, so it'll eat up a good chunk of my week. I will not be able to blog tomorrow, but the following day I will treat St. Philip Neri, whose feast day is the 26th.