Christmas
Friends,
What a wonderful God we do have! These days I am
just amazed at all the gifts surrounding us. What a blessing our little
community is!
Christmas Eve started off with a certain amount of
chaos as we tried to borrow the van from St Joe’s to get everyone, and
the seats weren’t in it, and it needed gas, and on and on… by the time
we all got to my house it was 5 pm, and Mass was supposed to start at 4!
But our waiting guests were patient, and pretty soon we were all having
a great time with our Christmas pageant and Mass and then dinner, with
eleven people around the table. I love being the pastor of a community
small enough to invite everyone to dinner! We had a wonderful time. I’m
so grateful to Linda Condon and Martin Linskey, because without their
help I don’t think it would have been possible. They drove, they cooked,
they showed up! And I’m grateful to Pat Carey who waited a whole hour
for us all to arrive.
We sang songs around the piano (or tried to) and took lots of
photos, and eventually everyone went to sleep… my next-door-neighbors
lent an air mattress and I think everybody was comfortable. And in the
morning I made breakfast for everybody, with some really terrible coffee
that everyone was most polite about, and leftover tamales. It was a
wonderful Christmas.
The hard part was taking them home again. But there is so, so much to be thankful for.
The
way things have unfolded this year, the hand of God is so
clearly evident, it just isn’t possible to worry. Things will continue
to unfold in ways we probably can’t even dream of. A year ago I didn’t
dream of this!! 2012 is totally in the hands of God. We’ll just keep
walking and listening and saying YES, and let God’s dreams for this
community come true. May it be so!
Come and join us any Sunday. This Sunday, New Year’s Day, we will
celebrate at 11 am as usual. (We celebrated on Christmas, too!)
May 2012 be full of blessings for you. Feliz año!
Blessings and love to all,
Chava
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Oscar Romero Church
An Inclusive Community of Liberation, Justice and Joy
Worshiping in the Catholic Tradition
Mass: Sundays, 11 am
St Joseph's House of Hospitality, 402 South Ave, Rochester NY 14620
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