Feast of the Transfiguration in Lanark Ontario

This morning we went into Lanark for Mass. The Church is Sacred Heart of Jesus the same church Fred and I were married in 44 years ago this year.

I have no wedding pictures in front of the Church. This makes me sad. At least now I have a picture of the church.

It was a beautiful Mass. A bunch of kids were there and they had a beautiful choir. Some of their songs included Latin. There was incense and I received Holy Communion under both species of Body and Blood.

It was a beautiful Mass. A total dainty.

Angels are our protectors against evil

I am saying this Chaplet everyday now to combat evil. All the angels are our protectors. The nine choirs of angels: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominations, Powers, Virtues, Principalities, Archangels, Angels:
The Chaplet of St. Michael

This is depressing but bears scrutiny. We ignore evil at our peril:
Killing a Conscience in Seven Steps | Catholic Culture

And from Romans, text below:
Romans 1:18-32
God's Wrath on Unrighteousness

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[a] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

A first for Madagascar

Today Fr. Hasina defended his doctoral thesis at St. Paul's University in Canon Law for property rights in Madagascar. So glad it was him and not me. 

He had friends, directees, and brother Jesuits there to cheer him on. Fr. Hasina did an excellent job and will receive his Doctorate in Canon Law. 

Fr. Hasina will be the first Malagasy Jesuit doctor in Canon Law. Congratulations Fr. Hasina!

Victoria - Week 8 final days

We leave Saturday to return to the land of snow, ice, and definitely no flowers. Yet. But they will come.

A few final pictures. These are from Fred. Beautiful. Especially the last one.

Jan and Knut's place where we stayed. We are in the downstairs apartment.

Victoria - Week 8

This morning we walked to Beacon Hill Drive In for breakfast. Then down to Dallas road to the sea. Back through Beacon Hill Park and Cook St for coffee. About 10 km in all.

For some reason Victoria likes to plant telephone posts in the middle of sidewalks and we've grown used to this. You will see a picture below that I took on the weekend, where they've planted trees in the middle of the sidewalk. Weird.

But the flowers are very pretty. Thank you God for that.

Victoria - Week 7 St. Paddy's Day, old people and a dog

Fred took these pictures yesterday. Lots of activity downtown Victoria for St. Paddy's Day.

As he was taking pics he passed a young couple. The guy said to his girlfriend:

"There are so many old people here. I'm not really into old people."

 

Victoria - Week 7 Lieutenant Governor and Government House

We finally go to the Lieutenant Governor and Government House today.

It's about a fifteen minute walk from where we are staying. We walked through the grounds which are still in the throes of early spring. Then we went for coffee afterwards.

We saw our second deer sighting this morning as well. We heard that there is actually a deer problem here, yet this is only the second time we've see any while here. I got a picture of two of them today.

They have some big old trees here. I hugged one for Barb. Dear God, thank you for these trees.

This is a camel on an elephant.