{"id":392,"date":"2025-09-09T01:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trask.co\/wordpress\/?page_id=392"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:40:39","slug":"ive-made-it-to-rome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trask.co\/wordpress\/2025-sabbatical-pics-vids\/my-first-week-in-rome\/ive-made-it-to-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"My home for the next 3 months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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I’m still in my first 24 hours in Rome, and it’s awesome.\u00a0 Haven’t met all my classmates yet, but we hail from Australia, Canada, Japan, Viet Nam, India, the Philippines, and the USA.\u00a0 While we all speak English, there are some priests with strong accents – and I find my myself regularly asking them to repeat their question.\u00a0 And no, it’s not that I’m hard of hearing; question that, and ask the parish secretary how often I respond to a comment they’ve softly spoken to someone else!\u00a0 (LOL.\u00a0 Yes, it happens with regularity.)<\/p>\n

Ordinarily participants have one comfortably sized room with bed, desk, armoire, and an in suite bath.\u00a0 This is the arrangement I had for my 2010 sabbatical, and it’s precisely what I was expecting this year.\u00a0 The accommodations I was assigned … well, I didn’t even know they existed in Casa O’Toole!<\/p>\n

The rooms at Casa O’Toole are assigned according to a number of criteria, including: age of the participant, years the participant has been ordained, as well as the number of modules in which they’ll be participating (1, 2, or all 3).\u00a0 Well, I’m not the “grand-daddy” of the group, but I’m close.\u00a0 There’s one participant who’s been ordained 42 years.\u00a0 I’ve been ordained 39 years.\u00a0 There are a few participants in the lower 30’s, but most are in their mid-20 years of ordination.\u00a0 With everything taken into consideration, I was assigned one of the nicest ‘rooms’ in Casa O’Toole!\u00a0 In addition to the bed, desk, and bath … I also have a sitting room and a balcony.\u00a0 And I find the balcony a great place for prayer – because it has such an awesome view.<\/p>\n

Fr. Edward Linton, the director for the Sabbatical, told me that: \u201cRank has its privileges!\u201d He also told me that I don\u2019t look my age, and probably shouldn\u2019t flaunt the room (actually it\u2019s a suite, as you\u2019ll see from the pictures).\u00a0 I’ve been very good about it so far, and don’t plan on changing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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