Granted, “retirement” means something different in the vocabulary of a priest. But Father Pflumm tries always to reserve time for his spiritual reading, prayer, his fellow priests — and, of course, playing golf with his sisters.
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St. Augustine wrote: "The fifty days of Easter excludes fasts, since it is in anticipation of the banquet that awaits us on high."
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Last month, I heard a wonderful keynote address by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Houston on "The Deacon as Servant of the New Evangelization."