This is my initiation into the world of blogging.  Several of my bishop-colleagues have blogs, but until now it has always seemed daunting to me.  I'm told that you have to keep updating it, and since I feel I'm already busy enough, why would I want to take on something else?  However, one of my (many) present tasks is to move to Grande Prairie from McLennan, and one of our organizers in this venture suggested that I might use a blog to keep everyone up-to-date on this project. 

A brief word about the name that I've given to this blog - Lisieux-Tours.  The Archdiocese of Grouard-McLennan has two patrons - one as a diocese in its own right (St. Martin of Tours) and the other as a metropolitan see (archdiocese) (St. Thérèse of Lisieux).  In putting these two saints together in a way that sounds coherent, I came up with Lisieux-Tours.  I run the risk of people thinking that I run a travel agency, I know.