Dear Bro. Ignatius Mary and readers,

What a nice surprise it was to read this after coming home from a long night of work... LOL "volunteer of the decade" is quite the honor, filled with humor yet very much appreciated. :-)

I consider myself lucky to be trusted to answer all these questions, but even more so I consider myself lucky to be CHALLENGED to answer them.  I firmly believe that the best way to learn something is to attempt to teach it.  Therefore I'll say I receive a lot of challenging questions over the years that forced me to dig deep into books that otherwise could be collecting dust and to make myself a more liturgically "literate" man myself.  For that, I have all the readers to thank for their help in my own little academic development.

Over the years you've kept me from becoming liturgically stagnant, which is a very good thing because coming very soon we have some very exciting changes coming in our celebration of the Liturgy with the new translation this Advent.  Personally I can't wait, there's no question that we will have a much more authentic celebration of the Holy Mass.   But, whenever there is major change there is usually much confusion and probably even dissent.  But I think right now there is no doubt that the future is more bright than dark for our sacred worship, and i am privileged to be here to help in any way I can to offer support.

Thanks again,

Mr. Slavek