No pictures today, folks. The battery on our camera died and we have yet to replace it. We discovered the dead battery on Friday night while attending the final eremitic vows of a friend of ours. What?
We have a friend who is a hermit and she took her final vows on Friday night. I know that it sounds contradictory to have a friend who is a hermit but we do and, I guess, that's that.
It was a beautiful mass celebrated by the Bishop and attended by close to 100 people. The dead battery was discovered at exactly the moment at which our dear friend professed the evangelical counsels as well as a life of silence and solitude. We attempted to take a picture of the sacred moment but were thwarted by the zoom function causing the camera to turn off. While Dave and I fought sotte voce about the ability of a dead battery to power a camera, the vows carried on, and, by the time we looked up, the vows were over. Just like that. Apparently eremitic vows are very fast.
We have family visiting for the week so I should have pictures coming to you soon of many adventures. Part of the visiting family is my younger sister who is a professed religious sister in full habit. I am wondering how our next door neighbour will approach me about the nun in my driveway as I have already seen a few questioning looks cast this way. I am sure that the habited sister will only add to his confusion about our family as he is already agog about our quantity of children and the potential for increase. Also, when we left for our vacation to Nazareth Family Camp, Jacob (never shy) yelled at him, "We are going to Nazareth for the week: Not the one in the Holy Land." (Just in case he thought one could drive to the Holy Land in a Dodge Grand Caravan with a roof rack, four children and no passports.)
So, I will sign off now as Hannah is writhing on the floor with a sore tummy that (she says) is not leading to throwing up and Joseph has just now found the drip function on his bottle and is using it in an art project. Bye for now.
7 comments:
So glad the company arrived safe and sound..looking forward to seeing pictures..give my Sister a hug :)
nice post, Hannah
good words
Jacob
Sometimes I think that I should have been a hermit.
I wonder if that is the same woman that Fr. Denis told us about when he was up at camp. I mean, how many professed hermits are there in the Pembroke diocese? :) I was very interested to hear about her. I look forward to seeing the pictures you did get. (And what are your children doing up at 6am commenting on your blog? :) )
Sue, That definitely was the same woman that Fr. Denis was talking about - he is her spiritual director and met her while he was the priest at our parish in renfrew. And the kids weren't up at that time - there's something wrong with the internal clock on our computer. Thank God.
There's a little mischievous part of me that thinks that you should play with your neighbours. ;)
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