Sunday, Sweet Sunday

It rained last night and there is still a gentle drizzle at the moment, enough to wet the garden, my plants are happy. Before I woke up I was dreaming of taking my cup of coffee outside and hear mass online but it’s not to be.

I attempted many times to be physically present during Sunday masses but I found them too noisy to my over-sensitive ears. The sound echoes back and I could not understand a thing. So I went back to attending Sunday masses online where the sound is clear if I put my CP to full volume. Fr. Aly, a long time friend was the mass presider in our parish today at the town proper. Back in 1995, he blessed our new house. He was still two years into priesthood then. When Nissa got married in 2011, we invited him as the mass celebrant. I remember the more personalized homily about our family and about my treatment and journey as a cancer survivor.

I will hear mass on Ash Wednesday even if it’s hard to listen to it. It’s the beginning of Lent. Even if I am a senior, we still observe fasting during Fridays of the whole season of Lent and fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. I am looking for some links on online recollection. I used to read that of Fr. J’s meaningful reflections but he is no longer active in his blog. He is a Jesuit and I used to read his homilies too. There is this site called sacredspace that posts nice and uplifting reflections but I haven’t visited it for a long time.

I just visited it. The link is sacredspace.ie. Here’s a simple prayer for today posted at the site. It is entitled Presence:

Dear Lord, help me to be open to you

for this time as I put aside the cares of this world

Fill my mind with Your peace, Your love.

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