CDOM Teacher Mass
August 4, 2017
Read carefully. It is CDOM, Catholic Diocese of Memphis. My brain wanted to insert the -R for CD-ROM. Occupational hazard I guess.
There is a special energy about the day that the teachers gather pre-students. Everyone is glad to see their colleagues. Get the chance to go out for lunch which won’t happen again until the end of the year. It’s a time of joyful anticipation.
The communion song was One Bread One Body, a personal favorite. I was in Yankee Stadium was it was sung for the first time when Pope John Paul II visited in 1979.
I knew only a few people in this church of about 500. Yet I was one of them in part because I am Catholic, not everyone in the church was, but because I am a teacher.
I’m feeling that joyful anticipation too. I’m getting to do something new. I’m included. It feels good.