For five days throughout the remainder of this fiscal year (including today), ArchBalt is furloughing her diocesan staff, closing the Catholic Center, and leaving staff to stay at home without pay.  Today is the second such day, following the first two weeks ago.

The Catholic Review did offer an article on this story.  The good news is that we are allowed to trade in a personal day or a vacation day so as to not have our paycheck diminished. Thankfully, I had plenty in reserve (but that’s not the case for all my co-workers.)

Anyway, when the office closes like this, I’m gonna repost this so that you know and we all remember that we need to keep the economic crisis on our screens -  people are hurting, our peers are being impacted with lay-offs due to diminished investments, families we serve are being impacted – and we need to be about prayer for each other. . . which is how I hope to spend part of my furlough days.

We will resume our series on The Speed of Trust tomorrow.