My weekly email is late this week. On Sunday, when I usually write, I was on a bus full of teens and chaperones enroute from Columbus Ohio and the National Cathodic Youth Conference. Next week's email will include my reflections on this powerful event.
Time was when I could travel with a bus full of teens, get 5 1/2 hours sleep three days in a row, walk what seemed like miles and still have energy enough to go to work on Monday. Those days are over. I'm old.
Have a joyous week.
Deacon Ray
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Over the years, God has blessed me with many wonderful opportunites to
minister. As a Roman Catholic permanent deacon of the Diocese of
Rochester, New York, (ordained 1982), I have served in a wide variety
of ministries. Whether I am ministering to my parish, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, travel or retreat groups (e.g. Cursillo, Walk
to Emmaus, Koiniania, Pre Cana, Youth) - music has played an important
role in opening doors and hearts.
This website is an
extension of that ministry. Here you'll find the lyrics to many of my
prayer-songs and, if you like, purchase from a collection of CDs I've recorded.
There's also information about tours and pilgrimages that my wife Pat and I
occasionally host and links to web sites I've found interesting.