Coming down

Our new priests today

A reassuring sign, the viewership is dropping slowly to 1606 on Monday 26th. Today down to 822. It's terrible to be watched and stalked because of my private opinions over geo-politics.

Today 4 of our seminarians were ordained priests. It's a great day as they reached another goal inlife. We have about 80 seminarians in various stages of training. We don't have enough rooms for so many seminarians so we have 2 seminaries. Philosophy seminarians stay at Ein Kerem while the theology students stay in Jerusalem. Aspirants stay in Bethlehem. Postulants in Montefalco in the Umbrian hills of Italy. And novices in La Verna, the sacred mountain where St. Francis received the stigmata. Europe and America is dying from vocation shortages. But here we have asians and africans who are now slowly making the majority of the seminarians.

Tensions are high these past 3 days. It's the muslim feast of Eid al Adha or the sacrifice of Ishmael. 3 days running the Al Aqsa is packed with worshippers. Prayers run all night. It's difficult to sleep with all the noise outside all night.