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Spring 1999: The Apprentices in Austria

Fall 1998: Not a Household

Fall 1999: Back Home to Stay

From the Beginning until Fall 1998

How we spend Saturday afternoons.

He calls us to be Christ, even in a world sinking under the combined weight of Seinfeld’s ego, Superman’s steely perfection and Homer Simpson’s gut.

During the Grampshood of Bill Powell

Jeff tackles an early (and ongoing) misunderstanding about the Apprentices. We’re not just after girls. Honest.

This article appeared in The Troubador, the newspaper of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH, on Sept. 17, 1999.

This file is dated 1999, but it may have been our earliest list of household commitments, during the Grampshood of Jeff Ghering.

Our first media appearance.

Our covenant.

In this early outburst during a covenant writing session, you can sense a certain rising frustration.

In this early draft, we started out with good intentions. Eventually, we lost our focus.

Here, we’re struggling to shift our focus from discerning matrimony to living Catholic Manhood. In this version, we’re not quite there.

Our first covenant, back when we hadn’t even decided the name of our household.