What Paddy Shot At

Today has been the most interesting Mardi Gras I have had since I went to New Orleans with Frs. Trancone and Carlone and was on a float throwing beads out on Canal Street. This however, was different than that trip.
It started late as I didn’t get out of bed till 9:30 – just felt like sleeping in.
At the office today:
I met with the computer wiz and he is going to help me next Tuesday with a new set up and getting the printer to work.
I found two darling girls whom I taught last year and who came and knocked on my window and then came in for a visit.
A gentleman from radio station WMAL called and asked if he could come and talk with me about Lent; so I said, “Sure”. He came and recorded us and I guess it might play tomorrow and it was a fun conversation.
I had two more Confirmation interviews
I ate some candy that the receptionist wanted to get rid of!!

We had to move the adoration and the 5:30pm to the chapel because the church has undergone some renovations for the Latin High Mass we are having tonight. It turned out that it was standing room in the chapel because the Mass was for a special lady, Nancy, and many of her family came. The reading was Tobit, but I twisted things around to suite a family mourning a family member.
Then we had ashes for the School of Religion and then confessions. They were wonderful, mostly 7th & 8th grade came to me.

Tonight we had our Latin Mass as part of our year long celebration of our 100th anniversary. The music and singing were excellent and the priests who did the Mass really know the Latin. The sub-deacon was Fr. John Reutermann, who was a seminarian with me at Ridge four or five summers ago.
Fr. John gave a great homily on the readings which were about the Eucharist and he tied them and this Mass, done in the ritual and language that was used so many times over the last 100 years and while different – always the same!
I would say the church was about half filled and I will be most interested to get the “scoop” tomorrow. I kept reminding myself that it was “the Mass” but it didn’t engage me, I had to keep pushing myself into it. As I said the music was superb but the “priest back to you” just isn’t prayer for me.
Time to go to bed as I have a full day tomorrow.

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