Do you stay at the house all the time?
No, I actually leave the house quite often! I assume you mean the house next to the church, which by the way, serves many purposes. It serves as the parish office. It is a meeting place for many groups. It is a storage place for food for a group that goes to St. Mary’s Kitchen to give meals to the needy. Part of it is a storage place for Boy Scout equipment. It is a place where people go for counseling. I believe there is even babysitting for certain parish events or maybe even something to do with children’s church because there are toys in one large room. There are probably many other purposes of the house by the church that I have yet to learn, but in addition to all this, people actually live here! Msgr. Charles and I and sometimes other visiting priests and seminarians call this place home.
Actually, we call it the “rectory.” That’s what Catholics call the place where a parish priest lives. I don’t stay anywhere else, except when I leave to visit family or go on a trip. However, most of the time I am out and about doing ministry. And kind of like a “hired gun” on a western, I never stay in any one place for very long. Duty calls!
-Fr. Greg
