VIP's Visit

Admiral Tidd, our Navy Chief of Chaplains, visited last week with his wife Jennifer and a team of other chaplains for what we call in the Navy - the annual P.D.T.C. (Professional Development Training Course).

This is a picture of Papa (Fr. Phil) and Admiral Tidd in front of the chapel just after our service and before the next service, where he was introduced to the congregation of the Contemporary Christian Service.

The purpose of this PDTC was to instruct everyone regarding a new governing document that makes Navy Chaplains on the same professional level as any other Staff Corps in the Navy. (i.e., Medical Corps, Supply Corps, JAG Corps, etc.) In other words, chaplains will have a more clearly defined career path like all other officers in the Navy, so they will know how to plan their next assignments, when and where to go for more education, etc.

This is exactly what WE needed many years ago!  It's about time that the Chaplain Corps is finally establishing standards for itself!

J

Me, Jennifer Tidd, and Lois Marshall



Dinner with the local Admiral's and the Marine General at Cafe' Europa
about 50 yards from the exact spot where St. Paul came ashore in Pozzuoli
on his way Rome.





A visit to the Herculaneum



An ancient McDonald's (as the tour guide said). A place
where the citizens could get hot food to-go - 2000 years ago!!!
Wow!



Herculaneum was destroyed in 79 A.D. along with Pompeii, but is much more will preserved.  The look, therefore, into the past in the town was absolutely amazing!