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 On Sunday
Pete Logsdon, Len Collins, and John Korcsmar went to
the 10:15 am Spanish Mass at St. Stephen's in South Bend. Father
Tom Lemos presided and preached. The church was packed with
standing room only. While there, Pete Logsdon ran into some people from
Santo Tomás Moro Parish in Cd. Guadalupe, Nuevo León, Mexico. Small
world.
John Korcsmar, Pete Logsdon, and Len Collins stopped by
Holy
Cross House to visit the men from the South there. Joe
Rehage was enjoying a baseball game on TV between the Chicago Cubs
and the Milwaukee Brewers. Although he is from New Orleans, Joe saw his
first professional baseball game in Chicago as a little boy when he was visiting
an uncle who worked for the photoengraver's union. Father
Jeremiah Buttomer was reading Oliver Twist by Charles
Dickens. He found a collection of Dickens' works in the rec room, and he
has recently finished reading A Tale of Two Cities, Nicholas Nickleby,
The Pickwick Papers, and Great Expectations. Fr. Buttomer
was concerned that although Dickens was trying to point out the evils forced
upon children hundreds of years ago, many of those same problems have
returned. He hopes that perhaps the Church could point out these problems;
perhaps only the Church can. Father Richard Teall
has recovered from his hernia surgery and is well on the mend. Father
Paul Rankin was going for a walk with the aid of his walker. Father
Boarman has bounced back after his trip to Quebec. Father
Bill Hickins (Indiana Province) was looking very good. He lost
quite a bit of weight. John very kindly complimented Bill for losing so
much weight, and Bill responded, "And why haven't you???"
The Conference of Major Superiors of
Men (CMSM) had their annual assembly in the French Quarter of New
Orleans. John Korcsmar packed his
bags, loaded up the trunk, packed some cold Pepsi Ones, and was ready for the
drive to New Orleans. Unfortunately, the car wasn't quite as ready.
It just plain didn't want to start. Instead of saying,
"Varoom!," the engine meekly said, "Click, click,
click...." Brother Thomas Krieter
was most helpful. He got out his trusty jumper cables, and then after a
few short prayers, was able to open the hood of his pickup truck. A few
seconds later John's trusty Chrysler Concorde (named after the French and
British plane) was purring. They went over to Bob
Stone's auto repair shop on Congress Ave. In a matter of
minutes, John's car was as good as new, or at least as good as a car with 97,000
miles can be.
A short nine hours
later, John was at the Wyndam Hotel in the
French Quarter of New Orleans. The next morning, he was greeted by some
Holy Cross people: Father Arthur ("Bud") Colgan, Sister Suellen
Tenneyson, Father James Preskenis, and Father Ricardo
Renshaw. Bud is the provincial of the Eastern Province of
Priests and Brothers, Sister Suellen is the Vicar for Religious for the
Archdiocese of New Orleans, Jim Preskenis is the assistant provincial of the
Eastern Province of Priests and Brothers, and Richard Renshaw works for the
Canadian Conference of Religious. There were other people coming, but were
not able to come.
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