Father Tom Lam

            I don’t know if you’ve ever visited a seminary.  The closest thing I can compare it to is, “It’s like boarding school.”  Each seminarian is assigned a room that we’re encouraged to keep as clean as possible.  This shouldn’t come as a surprise for you to learn that I, for the most part, always kept my room tidy…except towards the end of each semester.  Like clockwork, when final exams came around, the floor of my room became the canvas for me to spread the piles of my class notes and study guides in preparation for the grueling exam marathon of finals week.

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            I don’t know about you, but every time I hear the Gospel reading¹ that promises us that His yoke is easy and His burden light, I find myself a little skeptical.  Don’t get me wrong, I believe Jesus when he says this.  I’m just not sure if I know what he means…because from my experience, when I’m in trouble or when I’ve witness illness in others, the burden neither seems easy nor light. 

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