Posted by: admin in: ● August 2, 2011
Greetings from LTIP Cohort Five! We’ve made it! After two months of hard work and 6000 miles, it’s time for each of us to go home. Since we’ve last updated you, we’ve had the opportunities to go to Boston, Newport, and New York City to see “Jersey Boys” on Broadway. What a life to be [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● July 2, 2011
We departed for Philadelphia on Thursday morning at 6:00 am. The guys love to get up early and see the sun rise! While in Philadelphia we stayed at Jeremy House, the Regional Postulancy for the United States and Toronto. During our three days in Philly, the guys were able to have an authentic Philly Cheese [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● July 1, 2011
On Saturday, June 18, we drove from Kansas City to Chicago with a stopover at Glencoe. For the next four days we lived with the Brothers at the Provincialate in Chicago. Theology and education classes were held in the Provincialate Office conference room. The LTIPers were also able to begin putting their education portfolios together, [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● July 1, 2011
On Thursday of our last week in Kansas City, we met at Turn-Around, a Catholic Charities organization that reaches out to men and women who have just been released from prison. The goal is to help acclimate ex-offenders back into the real world. We learned that once released, the staff from Turn-Around assists in helping [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● June 16, 2011
Last Saturday we traveled to Kansas City after four weeks in St. Louis. The four-and-a-half hour drive provided some much needed time to rest (i.e. sleep in the van) after spending the morning doing laundry, packing, cleaning our rooms and storing all the LTIP materials for the next cohort of young men. We arrived in [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● June 10, 2011
Upon our return from Memphis, Brother Frank, our Provincial for the Midwest Province of the Christian Brothers, conducted cooking and etiquette classes with the LTIPers at Christian Brothers College High School (CBCHS). Many of the young men were, “familiar with the kitchen” …as Gus would say. The sessions with Brother Frank provided an opportunity to [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● June 4, 2011
On Saturday, the merciful Brother Pat allowed us to sleep in, and the day was quite relaxing. At five we went to the Saturday vigil for mass with the Brothers right there in the residence. We then joined them for dinner at a local sports bar. From there we went back to the residence to [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● June 3, 2011
Most of us rose early Friday morning for breakfast; some of us missed the memo on the time we were to be awake and showed up a half hour late (by some of us, I mean myself!). But that didn’t stop us all from enjoying the wonderful hospitality of Mrs. Vo. She made us pancakes [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● June 2, 2011
Hello all, It has been over a week since we’ve last updated you on our travels, and much has happened since, so without further ado… Our days have been planned out to begin morning prayer and class each day at 8 AM, and then move on to lunch. Clinicals continued at De La Salle at [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● May 24, 2011
Greetings Friends, Dinner at Novelly House May 20th: Friday we had our normal day starting with breakfast, prayer, then classes, lunch, more classes and dinner. After dinner we went out to the store and Br. Pat bought a new Ping-Pong table! All four of us put some hard labor in to set up the table [...]