Two Weeks of Sprituality
I decided to take a summer school course and what a wonderful blessing that turned out to be. I took Torah/Pentateuch with George Boudreau, O.P., and it was an amazing experience.
We began each class reciting a Hebrew prayer called the Sh(e)ma (pronounced SHMAH). By the 10th and last day of class, many of us were able to recite it without the overhead.
I thought that spending 2 1/2 hours in class every day for two weeks would be tedious and tiring. It was tiring, but never tedious. In fact, it was refreshing because I really got to know the others in the class so much more than it seems over the course of a semester meeting one time per week.
Even better is we have time after the class ends to submit our assignments, so it isn’t even like you have to cram an entire semester’s-worth of work into two weeks. You have time.
I took the class to lighten my Fall load. I will have accomplished my goal and gained so much in the process. I highly recommend it–you won’t regret it…I didn’t.
Thank God.