A Personal Reflection by Fr. Brian: (continued from May 30th) As the ground stopped shaking, an eerie silence set in. It was quite spooky. All of our seminarians were out in the street. I was halfway out the front door, making sure that if the house had begun to collapse I would rush back in [...]
A Personal Reflection by Fr. Brian: It was October of 1989 and I was in my 2nd year of seminary at our House of Studies in Berkeley, CA. We were just sitting down in the living room of one of our two houses to say evening prayer and then watch the first game of the [...]
A Reflection from Fr. Brian: (continued from May 28th) As we headed towards our neighbor's property, we saw something burning in the yard. It was a hose that led up to the house where the propane tank was. We quickly ran to smother the hose with dirt so it wouldn't blow up the propane tank. [...]
A Reflection from Fr. Brian: (continued from May 27th) As the wall of flame, in some places over a 100 feet high, raced down the hill from the cross, we watched as the flames and smoke engulfed the land around our three buildings. The fire continued past our property, into the next property and further [...]
A Reflection by Fr. Brian: Another wildfire story: this time, I was taking my day off from the parish near Palm Springs, CA where I was Pastoral Associate. I drove to our property in Hemet, CA where we had our Novitiate. It was 60 acres like a ranch with a main house and two double-wide [...]
A Reflection by Fr. Brian: (this is part 1 of a several part reflection on two California wildfire experiences I had) Whenever I hear the song "Wildfire" by Michael Martin Murphy, it brings to my mind one of the things I feared the most living in the state of California. That is, wildfires! The song [...]