It is Saturday evening, I just returned from the 4pm confessions and I am going to stay here in my office till I go up to help with Communion at the 5:30 Mass.
I was surprised to see that I hadn’t written since Wednesday but my days are full. I did have the 6:30am and 8:00am Masses on Thursday and then I went to Holy Cross Academy for confessions. Then I headed to Baltimore. I was to meet Sr. Kass at 4pm for dinner. I got there very early, so I stopped at Mt. St. Joe’s High School and thought I’d surprise Barry Fitzpatrick. The man at the gate said, “Oh, you just missed him. He left for Harrisburgh”. Now really, what is in Harrisburgh.
I had a nice dinner with Kass and then, on the way home, I took the ramp BEFORE 95SOUTH and was lost for 2 hours in Colombia. When I finally got home, I went right to bed. I loath being lost!!!
On Friday at 7:10am, Fr. Ron’s mom died. She had been in hospice for about a week and he knew it was coming. Still, it is hard when it happens. He went down last night and visited with her and stayed so I told him to stay the day and let us know when arrangements are made.
Fr. D’Silva and I have covered the day. I had a Communion call at 10am and then the 11am Mass. A person came for confession at noon and then I had the nursing home Mass at 1:30 and another home at 2:30. Then I took a nap.
Went to a family from the parish (with four kids) for dinner. Another couple (1 kid) joined us. We had a wonderful meal and lots of laughs and discussion and suddenly it was 11:40pm. Needless to say, I was out cold 3 minutes after I hit the bed.
This morning, Saturday, I got up around 9am and worked on my Christmas letter. I had the 11:00am Mass and then I baptized my cousin, Maria’s son, Nicholas Anthony. It was nice to see some of that part of the family – Nellie’s great grand nephew. Then we went to a place called “Comet”, where there is Pizza and Ping Pong. I think it is a couple steps up from Chuckie Cheese. The Pizza was great and the wasn’t a lot of noise!! I had a good time.
Then I had confessions at 4pm and now am waiting for Communion time. This time, early to bed!!
Homily went well…whew!