Legitimate Honesty

Part of the conversation at pizza dinner last night after mass (Father so kindly paid for the group of six of us, woohoo free dinner.)  Walsingham = site of ND/University College London retreat this weekend that about 12 of us are going on - 'Father, I'm pretty excited to go up to Walsingham and see the country and how beautiful it is'... 'Oh, now don't have any hopes there, there's absolutely nothing up there.  I mean, absolutely nothing. Zero life'  

only Father John would tell someone to not be excited about the retreat, the good old Scottish man that he is