We were just boys at that time, teen-agers who ardently wanted to be priests . . .As was common practice in the 1940s, candidates for the priesthood were sought in Catholic grade schools and those young teenagers who felt called went off to a Preparatory Seminary and were introduced to a formation that profoundly transformed their lives. Their training was rigorous, but kind and gentle.
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Friday, October 26, 2007
47. Inheritance ~
For we were the children
of unschooled Shawnees
Potawatamis
and Miamis
who
had walked
these selfsame plains
with a piety
that still seeped
from the fields
to infect us.
~
Denn wie waren die Kinder
ungebildeter Shawnees,
Potawatamis und Miamis
die über ebendiese Prärien
gegangen waren
mit einer Frömmigkeit,
die immer noch sickerte
aus den Feldern
und uns ansteckte.
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