What Paddy Shot At

A few weeks ago, a kind lady spoke to me after Mass to tell me how much she was distracted by my looks at Mass because she kept thinking of Santa. So I told her to think of me as St. Nicholas, as in my previous parishes, I use to dress up like him and give out chocolate coins covered in gold and ask them to do a good deed.

Last week, that lady whose name is Grace, brought me four bags of coins and said she hoped I would do that at our school.  I had decided I would try it but I wasn’t sure I’d have the energy to walk throughout the school. Last Thursday, Fr. John asked if I could come to the gym around 8:30am on Monday and be St. Nicholas.

After Mass yesterday, I went and bought some red conscrution paper  and made a miter. I just returned from my visit to the school assembled in the gym. St. Nicholas was greeted with thunderous applause and after a special prayer to God that St. Nicholas be the instrument of protecting all the children of the world from bullying, from lack of food and shelter, and from anything that could harm them. St. Nick gave coins to each teacher for their children (It just made more sense to do that). The older students went off to their classes but I put my miter on Fr. John and delegated him to take coins around the school to the older students. He just returned with enough coins left for an appearance of St. Nicholas at our senior citizen’s meeting this afternoon.

I think I’ll save this as a draft and finish it this evening.

1PM. I just returned from our senior citizen’s group that meets every Monday at our center. St. Nicholas made an appearance and told the story of the coins for the young girls and gave out to each person some chocolate gold covered coins and after a prayer for children asked them to do a good deed and/or pass the some of the coins on to grandchildren. We had the most delicious bread pudding and now before my Mass at 5:30pm, I think I’ll take a nap.

These evening Fr. John will have a special Mass for our Mothers group and Fr. Jim and I will be available for confession. I can’t think of a nicer way to end a very happy St. Nicholas Day.

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