Tertianship began last night and all 12 members arrived from various countries to spend the next several months getting to know each other and to find out at this time, what God wants for each of us. The 12 of us represent 9 countries. The men’s first names are Bryan, Toni, Amar, Tae-jin, Ben, Kizito, Dusan, another Jeff, Shaun, Pen, Mike and myself. We begin with our personal biographies and then will review the biography of our founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Lord, teach me to be generous.
Teach me to serve you as you deserve;
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not to seek for rest,
to labor and not to ask for reward,
save that of knowing that I do your will.
Well, Tertianship begins in 8 days. My tertian ship class should consist of 12 men including myself and begins on Aug. 24th. The 30-day retreat begins on Sept 16th and my experiment begins in late November in Belize. I hope you will follow along with me over these next 9 months as I go through tertianship. I hope to post more information about my fellow tertians after it begins and to post regularly throughout this program with the exception of the 30-day silent retreat.
I arrive in Boston this Saturday to spend a few days seeing the sites of Boston before the program begins.
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding,
and my entire will,
All I have and call my own.
You have given all to me.
To you, Lord, I return it.
Everything is yours; do with it what you will.
Give me only your love and your grace,
that is enough for me.
I will be posting podcasts made via Audioboo and posting them here occasionally. I hope you enjoy them.
Welcome world to my personal musings on my tertianship and beyond as a Jesuit brother! I hope you will enjoy this blog as it will have posts, pictures and podcasts of my time in tertianship and beyond.
