29 August 2014

Opening Day

These days we're in Retreat with Bishop Michael Barber, now Bishop of Oakland and formerly Director of Spiritual Formation here at SJS.  In between conferences, however, I wanted to post some photos taken by the great George Martell at our opening Mass and cookout.





















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