Apologia
Several years ago Fr. Bill Spencer, who was at that time the minister provincial of Sacred Heart Province, asked me to work on a history of the Province. I immediately said "yes," not appreciating what that project would entail. Let me justify my use of the last six or so years of my life. (I don't recall when I began this, but I think it was in 2012.) When I said yes I was 77 years old. I had taught more or less full time at Quincy University for 28 years, and did administrative work along with teaching for another six or seven years. I earned my retirement. And I was going to enjoy that retirement, not by traveling, which is what many retired folks in our society seem to do, but by staying right here at Holy Cross Friary in Quincy, reading, writing, and not going to committee meetings or preparing for classes. I regularly preside and preach at Masses in the QU chapel, and help pastors, mostly across the River in Missouri, by covering for them on their vacati