Well, things went fine at the baptism and the wedding. The baptism of Colin James was a small affair with only about 6 people there. No one seemed to mind that I was limited in my movements. I had a chair but I stayed upright through it all.
The wedding of Anne and Brian was just beautiful. They had a quartet of musicians and that sound just is great in our church. John helped me by being a good strong arm to lean on. The organist did say that my alb kept exposing my leg, which looks like “Aunt Birdie’s support stockings” but I don’t think it will get into the photos.
Because of the storm last night, there was no mike when I first got there but the man came to repair it. Also there was no air-conditioning for the baptism but that was repaired by the wedding time (3pm). However, there is no elevator and I had to walk up and down the stairs in the parish center. We’ll see if that can be repaired by Sunday evening.
Fr. Percy has offered to take the 10:30am Mass tomorrow and so I will only have the 5:30pm Mass. I have spent most of the time after the wedding just relaxing in my suite and I’ll do the same the rest of the evening and all day tomorrow. It gives me a chance to do more of the exercises and I hope that the swelling will go down some more. Fr. Percy also offered to take my 11:00am Mass on Monday. That will be a great help as I have a doctor’s appointment and a therapy session at 10:30 and 11:30am. I am hopefull that he’ll tell me I am almost well again. I have exposition and the 5:30pm Mass on Monday. Fr. Ron leaves tomorrow (Sunday night) for Ireland and Fr. Testfaye leaves on Wednesday for Ethiopia and so Fr. Percy and I will be covering things. I hope to be back to full strength by Wednesday. Keep that in your prayers.
Rest and the knee exercises will speed your recovery. God bless Fr. Percy! That storm must have SOMETHING to cause all of your equipment to malfunction. Were you part of the microburst they are talking about?