April 16, 2007
Infinitive
The parish where I more or less work sponsors the Hope Exchange for five summer weeks. The idea is a kind of school that garners fifty or so young ghetto kids together with skilled and thoughtful mentors to practice reading and social skills and to develop some self-esteem. Tuition and a couple of meals a day are on the house. Families, as well, get into the action.
One of the ways we finance this is with an annual wine-tasting and silent auction. One of the less silent parts of that evening is my jazz band playing for the event. Local wine distributors donate their wares and their time as attendants. All this took place again last Friday evening. It was well-attended and garnered some $14,000 gross.
To watch the Exchange move and grow each summer is to discover that “to church” is really the infinitive of a verb meaning to catch and unfurl one’s spirit into the human being God imagines it to be.
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