In commenting upon Patricia Fagnant-MacArthur’s book review Vocation in Black and White I mentioned that I have ordered this book for my Dominican priest and spiritual advisor, Father Robert Botthof, O.P., may he live forever.
Now, as I noted there, and of a strange thing, I ask you to pray for Fr. Botthof's daughter and her family as she enters breast-cancer surgery and therapy this very week. Yes, Father B. was once married; father of three (now two) children; with four grandchildren; once a Marine and Christian Brother, too; with a long career in education; became widowed and has had a late-life vocation for twenty-five years now among the Order of Preachers. He is active as a part-time associate in my parish though now eighty years old.
So, pray that Father B., his family and you and yours (me and mine, too!) will one day meet at the foot of our Father's throne.
