Dinner with a Friend!

Dinner with a Friend!

Thursday night we had dinner with a good friend of ours, Father Sal, who is a retired priest here in SdC. He has lived such an amazing and inspiring life. He is from the Philippines and has told us stories about fleeing from the Japanese in WWII. As a young man he was a seminarian in Rome. He speaks five languages. When he began his priesthood he went to New York, and his first day in the city he stopped a guy from jumping off of a bridge. He lived in a monastery with Thomas Merton and the other night he was telling us about his most recent trip to Rome for the istalation of Pope Benedict 16.

He is a very warm and humble man and a real joy to be around. When he was sitting at the table he asked to hold our Daughter Isa. When he reached out to her, she reached back to go sit in his lap and then she gave him a huge long hug.