June in Rome...

June has arrived and the pontifical schools are all in exam mode. This semester I have a total of six exams, all oral but one. The last remaining exam will be Monday evening, and thus will end my academic classroom work as a student. Well, that's not entirely true. I will be in the classroom this summer studying German and then in the Fall I have a weekly seminar to attend. But, the overall point is that in two days I end one big portion of my academic work and head into full-time writing of a dissertation.The photo was taken a couple of weeks ago with the students in the "Theology of the Eastern Anaphora" course taught by Fr. Ephrem Carr, OSB, a monk of St. Meinrad's Abbey, IN and who currently serves as the president of the school. You can see yours truly at the top left looking as happy as usual. The size of my classes vary one from another - this one being a bit larger than the others. Four Americans in this photo, the others are from lands near and far. The four women are huddled to the bottom-right.