This week the Catholic Diocese of Erie announced that it is moving its sacrament of Confirmation from being given to 11th graders to 9th graders. The program they are proposing sounds good, at least better, as they admit, than trying to interest juniors in high school to 90 minute classes of information on Catholicism. The new program they are selecting has more to do with experiences and applications within the contemporary world and culture then in the accumulation of knowledge in theology. Not to mention that the percentage of eligible students in attendance has dropped terribly.
In that vein, how about that California diocese and the linking of the reception of communion to political stances....again. There's a sample of what the new Confirmation classes can discuss! Black and white? Hardly. Welcome to the adult world of gray, kids.
Now, more on the home front. Here are some sights, no sound, from around our monastery this week.
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| The two-colored dogwood tree at the original monastery in Erie. Beautiful this year. |
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| The arbor in the library courtyard is blooming. |
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| The iris crop in the inner courtyard is blooming this week, too. |
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| Look, a rhubarb plant. |
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