Slept well again. Maybe this c-pap is what I have needed!
Got up around 7am and decided to come to the office and work again on those marriage papers. Then around 8:30 I drove over to St. James and got my cell phone.
I had the 11:00am Mass, which was moved to the chapel as the Sodality ladies were cleaning the whole church like a military exercise and let me say “it sparkles”. I happened to open the tabernacle in the chapel after the readings and there were only three host in it, so we sat and waited while some more unconsecrated hosts could be found so Mass could continue. Our seminarian, Patrick Mullan stopped by and joined us for Mass. He is helping out at his home parish, St. Jude’s for Holy Week.
After Mass, I drove out to Leisure World. Picked up Barb Ostrye and Ursula Lemanski and the three of us went to lunch. We went to a nice Italian place in Olney. As I was walking out to get the car, who do I see but Richard and Debbie Werden and their youngest daughter. What a pleasant surprise. Richard was the little boy who put his foot in the first birthday cake we used at our children’s Christmas liturgy. His mom, Fran just moved the icing around and no one knew; but we have teased him for years.
On the way home, I stopped to see Nancy Clark, whom I met over the winter. She was a pupil of Sister Victoria’s. I brought her Communion.
I had three first communicants for the interview and then I took a nap.
I am preaching at the penance service tonight and then we’ll be available for confessions till 8:30pm.
I may drive down to Maggie’s tonight as I still have the albs that we borrowed from her parish for the kids to wear while serving the wedding Mass. We’ll see how tired I am but I’ll close now as I have to go up to the church and get ready.
Glad the c-pap is working!
Survived my final “good byes” in NJ and now I’m in MD ready to begin a new ministry. Whew!