Columbia Magazine article by Father Seamus Griesbach
http://www.kofc.org/en/news-room/columbia/2020/june/window-of-opportunity.html Window of Opportunity: By Father Greisbach Challenges resulting from the pandemic have offered unexpected openings for God’s grace. Father Seamus Griesbach sits at the confessional he built to fit in the window of the rectory of Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in Sabattus, Maine. He installed the drive-up confessional March 19, the solemnity of St. Joseph, with help from his brother, Leon. We never had a course in the seminary about how to minister during a pandemic — and I would never have imagined a time when one of my primary opportunities to serve God’s people was through the screen of a drive-thru confessional. Yet it has become my new routine: listening to the sound of vehicles idling as penitents wait patiently for their turn to pull up to my window. Some have come from hours away. From young children making their first, tentative steps at repentance to older Catholics who know each prayer by heart, th