March for Life Photos

If you are interested, you can check out these galleries I have made to show the photos I took on the OLM trip to the March For Life. I had a great time withe the students. If they are the future, it appears we are in good hands, the students were great. Enjoy the photos.

MfL Traveling

MfL Arlington

MfL Mass and Prayer Vigil

MfL Youth Mass

MfL March

MfL Regret

Look in the above gallery for the photos of the Rainbow I spoke about.

MfL Homebound

I am sure you have seen it

This is loads of fun and I am sure you have seen it, but I just had to post it. I will put stuff up in a bit from the March for Life. Enjoy

Snow storm

I got this link of pictures of the Parish after the snow fell. They are courtesy of Deacon Gayle and his wife Sally. Enjoy

New Parking Spot

Have you seen my new parking space yet??? Well it is pretty sweet. Sweet indeed. I bought it for all three Masses at this years Fun at the Falcon. So when you see my crummy cat there you know, that is my little piece of heaven (the car is).

Oh and if anyone ask you can tell them: 1. Yes he paid for that spot & 2. If they want it next year you can bid on it. Peace

God maintains his covenant

I know you can't see it in this photo (I will post more later). We are at the "Silent No More" rally after the March for Life. We are listening to women who have had abortions...and regret it. As we stand here on a cold cloudy day in front of the Supreme Court and the sun just came out and cast a rainbow across the sky...He maintains his covenant still today, this moment...NOW. Peace

March for life is on the move. Pray with and for us. The weather report: many are cold, few are frozen

Mark Starr

Look who we found...it is our own seminarian Mark Starr. He seems to be in fine health and form. He sends his best to all the parish family

Mass for Life

I am at the Shrine for Mass and there is no place to sit...wall to wall people! Pray for us.

Made it to DC

I am with the kids from OLM in DC for the annual March for Life. After getting off the plane we came to Arlington National Cemetary, this photo is from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Pray for us, and the world...pray for His Peace

Breakfast

Here ways todays fare at J. Christopher's in PTC. I love their blueberry crunch cakes, yummy.

Rosie not feeling 100%

Well Rosie has not been doing great this week since Rocky jumped on top of her. Each time she got up from a nap, which seems to be often in her life, she would yelp and then pull her left front leg up and bend her neck in pain. So we went to her vets office today and she seems to be on the mend, with some good meds. On a side note keep Dr. Watts and his family in your prayers, he hit his dog with his car accidentally and the dog is not doing so well. Peace

This is just too good...

Run away! Run away!...Err...RETREAT (Part II)

Well, although it is icy and snowy and treacherous outside, I am venturing to the Ignatius House for my day of leading the soon-to-be-ordained men. Say some prayers for them and their family, and me and my journey. I will post some photos upon my return. Thanks. Peace

UPDATE: Now with photo goodness...enjoy!

Beauty-full

Ever seen this commercial?

Well it looks like someone tried to remake it in Rome as a protest. The commercial was beautiful but the protest, well...maybe?

This is a law my cats obey!

Font update...

Well, things are moving full steam ahead with the construction of the new font. Linda has the final on the mosaic and it looks wonderful. Here are a couple of photos of Bob and his pit. Enjoy

Thank you!

After the Court of Appeals luncheon, I had a meeting about an hour after the luncheon and about a mile away, so I found myself with some time to kill. So I stayed at the restaurant and worked a bit more on my Thank you cards for Christmas...so if you are waiting just know I send them out once they are all finished, so know that I am working on them and they should be in your mailbox soonly. Peace

Court of Appeals

I think some of you know that I work on the Provincial Court of Appeals here in the Archdiocese. Well yesterday we had our annual luncheon and it was some fun. Here are the exciting photos. (you will see: Archbishop Donoghue; Msgrs. "Doc" Kiernan, Gracz, Dora, and Frs. Hachey, Galier, Duffy Jowdy (looking quite serious mind you), and Meg Fortino [who is the Administrative Assistant, Ecelasial Notary] and others) Enjoy

Italian food and friends

I had dinner last night at my friends house. Dan and Kathy Giannini. You can see they are typical Italians (lots and lots of food, great leftovers). The photos below are but a few from a great night with friends. I especially like the quote from the back of one of Kathy's Italian cookbooks. For those who hear me speak of my Easter Family, this is them.

(l-r. Me, Danny, Kathy, and their friend Joyce)

Pancake Breakfast

Christmas "de-decorating"

Part II: The Lights (electric and candles)

Thanks to all for all the help setting up, and taking down.

Christmas "de-decorating"

Part I: The Tree

Photos still not working correctly, so

Well the way I post photos is still not working, I am hopeful it will be working by days end. So, here is a nice post over at Vox Nova, Yves Congar. Enjoy

Update: It is working now.

SUNDAY

I will get some photos up ASAP from Sunday. We had a nice Pancake Breakfast as well as a lively "de-decorating" of the Church.

Concerns of our new font.

If you were concerned about the temperature of our new font, rest assured it will be warmer than this...brrrr. go here, here for more.

Uhhh..... NO

This only goes to prove why most priest would rather do 10 funerals than 1 wedding. Now I am not saying all brides are like this, but...Enjoy???

This is great

It is amazing what they can do with technology. Enjoy

This was mean...and kinda funny

They kids over at Gizmodo were having some fun at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. Well they used this TV-B-Gone from the fine folks at Make to cause some chaos. It was mean and fun all at the same time...guess it was kinda Schadenfreude, maybe. Enjoy?

Day Off

Nina's crepes in PTC...more later...mmmmmmm

UPDATE: Nina's Crepes in Peachtree City was nice. Go try them out, they are open from 10am-10pm. It was good stuff. Don't worry about its location, just think about the tasty food.

Further UPDATE: Well some astute reader (who remained nameless) pointed me to this ad, guess the place is for sale. Enjoy it while you can.

Run away! Run away!...Err...RETREAT

On Friday, I will leave for the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, in Conyers to give a retreat for the wives of the men who will be ordained to the Deaconate in February. I will be back in the parish on Saturday afternoon. On a similar note, I will be at the Ignatius House next Thursday to give a day of retreat for the soon to be Deacon's. You might or might not know that my mom, was the Wives Coordinator for the Deacons of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City for many years. She has always encouraged me to be aware of the wives and what they go through, so I am happy to be the retreat director for the wives this weekend and their husbands next week. I mention all of this to solicit your prayers for these women, men, families, and parishes as they approach ordination on the 8th of February. Thanks

Update: Now we have photos...

New Font

Well, I showed you the looks of the old font and the mold, yuck to mold. Anyway we are moving right along with the new font and a couple of weeks ago I asked the parishioners to vote on which tile they liked for a trim piece in the font, we still have not made a final decision on that, so more info on that later. Just so you are aware I am going to post of bit of what the new font will look like.

We are going to have a cruciform baptismal font. It will be quite substantial, 10'x10', it will be able to accommodate a full immersion Baptism of an adult. It should be quite nice, and I am really looking forward to it. Bob Imsand, a parishioner is constructing it for us. So some more about it. In two of the arms of the cross there will be steps descending in the main section of the font. On the center arm of the font the following will be done in a mosaic.

I know that is not the best photo, but it is the best I could do. Anyway the colors will be vibrant and the cross will be done in gold. It should look great. The design is done such that which ever side of the font you are on the mosaic will be right side up. It was done by Linda McCarrey of our parish.
As of today Linda and Bob are getting the mosaic tile order put together while Bob continues to move right along with the rest of the construction progress. Well there is some information for you, if you have further questions let me know, I will try to answer them as soon as I can. Peace

Car that runs on compressed air? YES

I doubt we will see this any time soon in the US, but I would love the cost per mileage ratio for this car. Enjoy

It was the mold (and worms)

Well this past week our beautiful font (seen below) was taken out. What you cannot see in this photo is the mold that was coming through the tiles around the base of the font.

But here in these following photos you can. These photos were taken during the demolishing of the font. As you can see the mold (and those are worms) were all over the place. It was in a section of the font that we isolated about a year ago, so it was not actually in the water source for the font, but it was clearly eating away at the structure of the font...which was unacceptable, and the reason we needed to get a new font. Now that the old font is out we are working on getting the new font in by Easter, more updates to come. Peace

Mezz-mo-rye-zing!

I love this video, now you can as well. Enjoy