This Tuesday we’ll welcome a seminarian, Andrew McCarroll, to St. Boniface and St. Lawrence Parishes. He will be here for a “pastoral year.” I know it’s been some time since our parishes hosted a seminarian for a summer or winter assignment. I suspect it’s been since never that we’ve had someone here for the duration of a year. So, let me give you some sense of what this experience means. Andrew, a native of Lehman (at the upper end of Route 118) and a son of St. Aloysius Parish in Wilkes-Barre, has just finished his third year in graduate school seminary at St. Mary’s in Baltimore. He has one more year of studies and a year with us. The Church wants men in formation to be well-educated in the faith. The process can take anywhere from 6 to 10 years. But, the Church also wants men to develop pastoral skills—the ability to work with people in a parish setting. Those skills are learned by experience, mentoring and actually doing. That’s our goal—priest, and parishes—this year: to welcome him to these communities and to allow him to engage with our ministries. So, keep him in prayer. Welcome him warmly. And, all of us, let’s be ready to do the Church’s work together.