Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
In 1978, the band Boney M had a hit single with the song called “The Rivers of Babylon.” The song is based on Psalm 137 in the Bible and expresses the sadness of the Jewish people who found themselves in exile away from their homeland and in Babylon in the sixth century before Christ.
As Robert Burns put it, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.” As the coronavirus pandemic caused us to cancel our Catholic Campus Ministry spring retreat, my students and I decided to adapt to the circumstances. The theme of the retreat, which was originally to take place over Palm Sunday weekend, was “Holy Week with the Saints.”