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One of the most common things people ask me these days is “So, what exactly are you going to do?” I try to answer their question the best I can. It is difficult to answer it. We live in a sound bite age and if an answer takes longer than 25 seconds, then people just stop you and say “Oh, that’s too confusing for me.”
The answer to the question is simply “I am moving to Austria to join the Canons Regular of St. Augustine.” But, this rarely answers anyone’s question. It just creates more questions. They normally arrive in this order:
- You are moving away from San Diego? Why would anyone do that?
- Have you visited them before?
- When you were there did you see kangaroos?
- What is the Canons Regular of whatever?
- Are they Catholic?
- Are you going to be a monk?
- Don’t you like people?
- I thought you had a good job, why are you giving it up in this economy?
- Will you be a priest?
- and the list goes on and on.
I thought it might be easier if I just write a few posts explaining what I am doing. To make this easier I am going to break this down in to parts.
In the meantime, here is an aerial photo of the Stift.
