Today was my first day at our parish Bible study and it was really great.  The leader is an older woman in probably her late 70s or early 80s who is just this vessel of Holy Spirit.  She is a well educated, former nun, who speaks very slowly and with perfect enunciation.   What an awesome teacher!  By far, I’m the youngest person in the group.  The rest of the gals are an eclectic bunch: three silent types, one kind of sweetly negative (if that is possible) and two talkers.

The group started the Book of Romans back at the beginning of October.  Today we began with Romans 2:12, so they aren’t zipping through anything.  Lots of sidetracked conversation, but lots of intelligent discussion too.  I’m so glad I decided to join this group.

The woman who leads and one other woman are the only ladies I even recognized.  When you go to a sizable parish you don’t see everyone who is a member.  We’ve been there over a year and have been Eucharistic Ministers for a year now, but the other ladies had never seen me before.  The teacher introduced me by saying, “she & her dear husband go to the 9AM Mass and they are always serving as Eucharistic Ministers…if Father doesn’t have enough Eucharistic Ministers these two dears always will fill in.”   She is an absolute sweet old gal.  She even somewhat reminds me of my Grandma B who passed in January.

So I think I’m really going to learn a lot from my Thursday afternoon Bible Study.