 appearance, governing a sky of stars that was my night. But that all changed in grade school when I was taught the math of time. I was an eager student hungry to master the clock. Ready to decipher the mystery of that ticking ring of numbers whose hands pointing their way around its somber clockface. With this new knowledge, my moments translated into numbers, each made accountable to hours, minutes, seconds. Life became a linear progression, like the chanted countdown for sending rockets into space.
“How are you feeling about retiring?” friends and colleagues ask me. I answer, “Ready.” That doesn’t mean I have it all figured out. In truth, I expect to do much un-figuring. Curious to see what my days will be like when the clock no longer dogs my steps. I am eager and ready to remove the watch from my wrist and let it rest on the bureau, transformed from a necessity into luxury.
Not that I will abandon the clock. I remain grateful for all the mornings it signaled me to get out of bed to go make some money. Thankful for the way it kept my world coherent and on track. Grateful for its support. For me, being on time felt more like being late. I set my watch ahead to ensure I was always early to the plane, the train, and the party (yes, I am thatguy).
But now, the clock and I are both ready for a change. Willing to let the day unfold in a different way. Ready to let breakfast, lunch, and dinner be decided by the want of my stomach and not by a preassigned number. Ready to sit and read a book until the book is ready to be put down. As a child, I was fully engaging in whatever entertainment the moment provided, unhampered by the crawl of shadow on a sundial, free of a numerical schedule. Now the clock and I will rediscover this new way, invite back the sun and moon to their generous unveiling of night and day. We will entrust time to the rhythm of a heartbeat. Flow in time to the curl of waves comingled with the wind. I followed the clock for all of these years; now, the clock can follow me as we unwind and make room for all these new days to explore, play, and wonder.
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Father Ruffino said he assumes this new role with a “spirit of gratitude. It is a way to say thank you to the people in North America who have supported and continue to support overseas missions.”
“I am a fruit of what the Comboni Missionaries from the NAP did for Uganda,” Father Ruffino said.
The Fruit of Decades of Missionary Work
For nearly 100 years, the Comboni Missionaries have served the people of Uganda — in parishes, schools, and communities. Father Ruffino spent his formative years surrounded by Comboni Missionaries, eventually discerning a call to that same religious order.
“Becoming the first African superior here is a way of saying, ‘Look, I’m a fruit of what you people did, though you probably didn’t see it,’” he said. “And this brings us to the oneness of the Church, at the moment where we look at the different backgrounds from where we come and see that each one has a little to contribute.”
During Mass, the Congolese and Cameroonian choir led the congregation in hymns of praise in Swahili and English. This vitality and sharing of cultures is an example of what Father Ruffino hopes to bring to the NAP. In this way, people can easily recognize the universality of the Church.
Father John Converset delivered the homily, concluding by giving Father Ruffino the keys to his office attached to a large package, telling him that the package symbolized “a sort of Pandora’s box, although not all of its contents are bad.”
“It represents everything you’re going to have to deal with—difficult and easy, joyful and painful. It represents responsibilities, things unforeseen to us; tensions, problems, options, choices you can make with your council. And these are the people who are going to help you,” Father John said, pointing to the crowd of friends in the nave.
A New Focus
Father Ruffino has been a member of the NAP since 2009 when he was assigned to work in Cincinnati. For six years, he served on the provincial council, helping make decisions about the province and its future. The past three years, he has worked as the mission director, helping coordinate mission appeals, and visiting parishes and schools.
His work as provincial superior will be quite different. He describes the day-to-day work as more administrative — responding to correspondence, attending meetings, and the like.
“It will mean a lot of work understanding the issues more deeply and taking them into prayer, so it is not just my way of deciding, but for the good of the congregation,” Father Ruffino said.
This first year Father Ruffino will be busy visiting the Comboni Missionary communities spread throughout North America: Los Angeles, Chicago, Newark, Cincinnati and Kitchener, Ontario. He plans to help vocations grow for the mission society. His priority, though, will be to bring a “new vitality to the province and mission.”​Have you ever wished that your glass doors or windows could give your space more privacy? Etched vinyl could do the job! Etched vinyl on doors and windows gives a sandblasted or frosted look and helps provide privacy for offices and conference rooms – and can keep people from walking into a glass wall! It’s Removable. Once glass is etched, there’s no going back. Another benefit of frosted vinyl and etched glass vinyl is that while it’s designed to last, it’s also completely removable. Whether you keep it on for the life of the vinyl or decide to change it after five years, you can leave it on for as little or as long as you’d like. Not only will you spend more money initially on sandblasting or etching glass, but you might also be out even more cash if you decide you don’t like it a year from now and have to get the whole pane replaced once again.Biography All Music Guide Wikipedia
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