Blessing Saint Anthony's Statue

Last night in our Church we had a short service to bless a recently obtained statue of St Anthony.

About 40 folk were there, not bad for a wet Monday evening.

Fr Anthony Collins OFM came along. He gave a short history of the life of St Antony, blessed the statue and we ended the evening with Benediction.
We then repaired to the foyer of the Church for a cup of tea, aranged by the parish Committee. At present we have no Parish Hall, but we are hoping to change that soon.

St Anthony is a very interesting saint. He is called "Wonder Worker", and is perhaps most famous for finding things that get lost.
 Try him.....

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01556a.htm


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_of_Padua

http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/default.aspx?id=17

Faustus

On Saturday night, we went along to the Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow to catch the final performance of Faustus.
Our son John had a part in it. I did not think I would enjoy it, but in the end I did. I am generally wary of plays that have been meddled with. In this case a re write of the second half. But it worked for me anyway.

After the show, we chatted to members of the cast and had a drink. It was an enjoyable way to end the evening.
Next morning, John flew to Boston where he is writing some music. He has a busy time coming up.
He has been asked to write music for a production of " A Satire of the Three Estates" to be performed at Linlithgow Palace. He has also to go to Malibu for somethimng to do with the play " Why Do You Stand There In The Rain." John wrote the music for that. It is doing a tour in the USA, but will be returning to Scotland at the Edinburgh Festival this summer.
I am sure John will have some material in the Festival this year too. A show he wrote and performed in last year - "The 27 Club" is going to Berlin shortly, so there is yet another country on his schedule.

I was out teaching all last week, and 2 days this week too. We are slowly reorganising 2 rooms in the house. It is slow, but we will get there.

The photos are from Turin when we visited to see The Shroud.