I had a great day yesterday and I just fell into bed when I got home because I had the 6:30am Mass today.
But yesterday:
Marie, Maggie, and I met our cousins and their spouces, Peggy and Phil Caruso and Eileen and Phil Ballenger for lunch. We went to a nice Italian place called Baronessa in Rockville. We had such a great time and lots of laughs. Marie brought lots of photos and we updated our cousins on our branch of the family. Both of our cousins have large families and (although no pictures!) they brought us up to date of kids, and grandkids. I think we spent almost three hours and I hope we can do it again when Maureen is here.
Afterward I discovered I didn’t have Mass since the one I was scheduled for was the Sodality Mass and Fr. Ron took that. So I contacted Patrick Mullen, my seminarian buddy and we went to dinner in Georgtown and then saw the movie, “The Way” with Martin Sheen. It was excellent and I recommend you see it. But as I said, I was up late for me and so that’s why I didn’t write yesterday.
Today, I have the 6:30am Mass and then I went back to bed. At 10:00am I went to a nearby senior resident and met a 96 year old lady who moved there about two weeks ago and a former neighbor, who is a parishioner here, asked me to visit her. We had a fascinating talk as she was born in 1915 in Czechoslovakia and her husband worked for Voice of America and they have lived all over the world. I’ll see her again in about a week.
Then I came home, took a nap and have been sitting here in the center. I just had a nice long phone conversation with Joe Villani, whom I went to St. Vincent’s with. I had met a close friend of his at the reunion here last week and I told him to tell Joe to call me. And he did. It was nice to catch up.
Fr. Bill Byrne just stopped in. He is giving a “Faith on Tap” talk over in our school later tonight and we had a nice chat.
I think I’ll head over to the talk and then to bed.
I love it that you take frequent naps. Guess that is a perk for retired priests!