Please know that some people come to this site to read, especially, what Monica  has to say. She speaks to my demographic--a lot older than hers. Her shop in this marketplace has added great value to the neighborhood.

I plead to her sense of nagging needless Catholic guilt, waning as that tradition is in her generation: 

A) She must consider, as she goes AWOL, who will replace her on guard duty.

B) Her absence will get us all mixed up; and you know what Archbishop Chaput says, "Confusion is of the devil." {Don't think he was fooled by a clever surname that branded her, quite literally,  "Of the ANGELS."}  

Does that work, Monica? Write home often if I failed. 

Yesterday I thought we were winning in the game of adult Catholic education. But there was a flag on the play. Mixing sports...John Wooden said: "Learning only happens after we know it all." 

Don't abandon we humble progressive learners who have questions to those non-confused and arrogant  "trads" who know it all.