in retrospect

It seems just like yesterday when I came to St. Meinrad to start with my seminary studies... Now I am at the last two weeks of the second semester of my study in St Meinrad.

In my cell while doing some physical workout in August. It was just a week after I flew from New Mexico to Indiana- from my own community to the community of St Meinrad- and I still didn't know that the monastery had a wide variety of gym equipment available for their monks and their visiting monks.


Monastic walk around the monastery and seminary complex of St Meinrad in September.


The Rector's inauguration in October.


While preparing for the Fall Outing of the seminary Formation House of St John at Monte Cassino in November.


The feast of the Immaculate Conception in December.


The historic March-For-Life at Washington, D.C, in January.


Just after the Eucharistic celebration of the feast of St Scholastica, the twin sister of St Benedict in February.


A day-break with my Filipino co-seminarians and our Filipino friends from Illinois and Missouri. Photo taken last month inside Indiana's famous tourists' favorite hideaway: West Baden Springs Hotel.


Year-end Class-in- Philosophy outing at Jasper Indiana this month.