The family spent Easter in Virginia with my sisters. It was a welcome retreat from my work world. Though I left my elders wondering where i'd gone off to...one even thought I up and quite w/o saying goodbye...ah.....its good to be loved.
Got to walk around DC a bit...chilly. Took the metro into the city...even got the experience of changing lines. Got to have an awesome Tuna melt at Unos....yumm!!!!! I didn't get to have one this Lent so......it was yummyful! Granted...it woudl have been more appreciated on a day that i couldn't eat meat. But, I also got to have some awesome Strawberry French Toast at IHOP......my goodness gracious were they good!!!!!The Triduum.......started off with Holy Thursday. Wow!!!!!! I love all that the Triduum has. What power in having your feet washed... I still remember on our silent retreat we took time to celebrate the Liturgy of Holy Thursday..something about washing the feet of a stranger...someone you can't even talk to....and having them wash yours...profound. And then adoration after Mass....aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh................and i'm developing traditions at OLOL now that i've been round long enough that are akin to not having the choir at St. Peter end Mass on Christmas singing Happy Birtday to Christ. Though this year also brought the challenge of having the new fire alarms go off during Mass. Sometimes new isn't always totally better I guess. Though, it definetly kept us all awake.
Saturday everyone was nice and decided that we could go to Vigil. Which was a pleasant surprise! (Thank you those who are not fond of extremely long liturgies) Wow.........the power of the visual of darkness into light................definetly describes the cycles of our lives as well..we go through periods of darkness and eventually enter into the light again. It has always been profound...but, became even more so after my retreat talk on darkness.
Sunday we had dinner at Holly and Julies house...of course mom had to do most of hte cooking. Wouldn't be a holiday without mom cooking, now would it??? Holly and Julie had their guys over, which was good. And we played Battle of the Sexes...I still say things are somewhat stacked..though we pulled it out.
I am loving my church community more and more. ..especially prayer group. They are totally awesome!! Even check up on things when i'm not thinking of it...which is a blessing. And next month on day I will be leading Rosary at the Manor, which will be cool. That has become my other set of elders..though I don't know them as well as my own. Though I should try to be round more...they keep telling me to come back!
At prayer group on Monday we all checked out our bitth verses. some were super appropriate. I"m still chewing on mine..Hebrews 12:2.. Its not one that sticks out in an obvious way for me.Someone got one about not worrying, which genearlly speaking woudl be much more appropriate for me. So...if anyone has thoughts on how Hebrews would apply to me let me know. I"m still working on that one....
I think I am going to hear a talk for Why CAtholic on Saturday. IT sounds like it should be a good one. And I think one of the awesome sisters I know is giving the talk. She moved to work with Why Catholic and said that she was going to be out here...........so.............I am guessing that means that if I go I will likely get to hear her talk!
I haven't seen her in awhile, so it would be a good thing. And I never got ot see her doing what she does best. The opportunity probably should not be passed up.
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