Well, that was the week that was ...

Awwwwh ... peace at last

This week was complete and utter mayhem!

Monday was a normal student day ... Ethics, 2 Hours of New Testament followed by 2 hours of Anglicanism and a relaxing evening and Evening Worship

Then came the mad, and I mean mad days of Tues and Wednesday ... Curacy Interviews ... 19 Rectors from all over Ireland descended into the college. How does one describe what happened

Well ... here goes ...

14 of us ordinands looking for the place to which God has called us. I had 13 interviews in 2 days each supposed to last 45 minutes. Apparently in total 104 interviews were carried out in the two days.

Running from room to room with a very short break between them. To say it was mad was a complete and utter understatement. I am sure it was the same for the rectors involved. We were all in our best behaviour. It is a strange process. It is not job interviews! We are not competing against each other as God has created us uniquely, however we could have easily slipped into that mode if we were not careful.

It is also strange as all of us lot who are looking for curacies care about each other, we have ate together, lived, prayed, worshipped together for the last 2 1/2 years and now find ourselves going through this process together.

So what is the next stage?

Well now that the interviews are over, we are putting down in order of preference our number 1,2 and 3 parishes. The rectors also in turn will put down their 1,2 and 3 candidates by next thurs

mmm ... please do continue to pray for us all as we discern our way forward.

But as I said at the start of this blog. Today, Thurs was just back to normal Old Testament and away from college.

So .... its back up to belfast on Saturday and back down to Dub on Sunday for the start of a new Semester!

Robert.