Parish Mission: "The Eucharist" with Dr. Dan Scholz

This week's bulletin [.5mb PDF] features our annual "parish mission," which means presentations by a speaker Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday evenings. This year it's Dr. Dan Scholz. He marketed the mission with homilies at this weekend's masses.

He formerly taught at Saint Francis Seminary, where he instructed priests and deacons in "unpacking the Word." Usually it's "breaking open the Word." Do they unpack it after breaking it open? Do they break it open if they lost the key, and gently unpack it if they didn't? Perhaps I'll never know.

He asked that people attend tonight, giving him a chance to show it's worth their while to attend Monday and Tuesday. He almost convinced me, except that I had attended the first night of some prior parish missions.