I am writing this on Friday morning. I didn’t have time yesterday and I won’t have much time today.
On Thursday, I did have the 6:30am Mass and although I am not a “morning person”, I was glad to be up early as I had much to do. I continued to preach about Vatican II. I am concerned that its vision will die some how and it is so important that that not happen.
Also because I am up, I think the whole world is up and I called people at 7:00am and caught them getting ready for school or work. I had some great conversations and “caught up” with more friends who had recieved the newsletter. Also a number more have been returned. I guess people do move in 7 years!!
I had the 11:00am Mass and then I had lunch at the rectory. We have a seminarian for the summer. His name is John Williams and I think he’ll be at Cathollic University in September. He worked at Mt. St. Mary’s University last year and was a frequent visitor to our parish. He is a Marine and I think he is a native Washington person but I need to check that out. He, Fr. Ron and I had a lot of laughs and stayed till almost 2pm at the table.
Then I drove to Solomon’s and met Susan Cassidy. She is the person who helped me with the newsletter. She tells me that we sent out 650. I picked up the extras and will get them around. It seems that in addition to the ones coming back with wrong addresses; there wer quite a few on the list that only had names or partial addresses. Also she knew some of them were mistakes and kept them out. One of them was my sister, Maggie. She has been telling me that all her friends and family have gotten newsletters but she hadn’t. Well it’s because the list had Mr & Mrs. Cyrus McLaughlin and she knew Mac had died and she knew I wouldn’t want it sent that way, so she held it out. I am mailing Maggie one today.
After my visit with Susan, I joined Maggie and her children, some of the spouses and the grandkids, Marie and JoAnn at the cemetery. It was Mac’s second anniversary of his death. It is a long standing tradition that on the anniversary of the death of family members that we have Mass and then go out to eat. We couldn’t get the church because of activities there, so we met at the grave. We prayed and Tim played “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes Then we went to Ledo’s and have a great time. I know Mac would approve.
I stopped by Maggie’s and we worked on the program for the Mass on the 20th and I got home around 12:30. It was a good day.
Happy to see you have the correct date for your Mass. An earlier posting had it THIS Sunday and sent me scrambling to my calendar to see what I had written. Whew!
Don’t let yourself get too tired!