Otra semana y el Jubilee

Sam, "Queen" Bernice, and me
Had to throw in a bit of Spanish there in the title. :-) (Otra Semana means "another week"). Anyways...the adventure continues!

This past week has been insane in the way of preparations for the Golden Jubilee celebration we held on Monday for Mother Benedict (to commemorate her 50 years as a little sister). Mother Benedict is from New Orleans, so the theme was "All things New Orleans." We had an elaborate dinner, followed by the celebration show. Many of the staff, volunteers (including me), and residents participated. I was the patriotic float (I got to wear a great big cardboard box decorated with all kinds of patriotic memorabilia) and I marched with the other volunteers and a bunch of little sisters to a 50 states song. We also had a Royal Court (as you see Bernice in the picture above), the New Orleans Saints, a veggie patrol, the splish splash crew, pacific island, Elvis and the rock band, and other themed float coalitions lol. :-) Then for dinner we got to eat with the sisters. It was so nice to be able to spend some "non working" time with them and chat. See the pictures tab for lots more pictures of the festivities.

Hmmm...what else happened...this past Friday I was able to see Fr. Eddie briefly at the Basilica and heard him say Mass in the IHM chapel in the crypt. We had a wonderful Mass for Pentecost here with the little sisters. A choir even came in from the Basilica to sing, they were beautiful to listen to. Monday's Mass for the Jubilee was lovely as well. It was a lot of fun decorating the chapel too (I get to help this saintly woman, Anne, in the Sacristy every day). What else...got to see more of downtown DC yesterday. I walked around with Sam and we ended up finding St. Patrick's church and went to the 12:10 Mass. We also walked around the mall and generally explored.

Well, I think that's about all for now. Though I feel like I'm going to be in some great need of sleep when I get back to MI, I'm certainly learning a lot here and loving serving with the little sisters. 6 weeks seems to be going by far too quickly.

I would love to hear from you all! (hint - leave me comments!). Prayers and Peace to you.
~Christina