It was the end of a perfect weekend.

Dick DID forget to turn off his watch alarm so I got up much too early and am quite tired now, but the morning was clear and pleasant for Chelsea and me. She seemed to be a little tired this morning. She sat down at least three times to rest. This IS a bit unusual.

I went to the 10:30AM mass with the Celtic Women. Kate had arranged for the choir to welcome us and they sang the Irish Blessing as a prelude. There were a couple of other Celtic songs too so it was a special mass. To add to the specialness of it - two home schooled children were receiving their First Communion AND Fr. Van Beeck mentioned that the next four weeks are very special feast days. The Milwaukee Archdiocese is celebrating Ascension next Sunday instead of Thursday. The next week is Pentecost followed by Trinity Sunday and ending with the feast of Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ. Fr. Van Beeck has "declared" a month of "retreat" for St. John the Baptist Church. A time for us to reflect and try to get our spirits in as good an order as our corporal affairs. He says we have IRAs, 401Ks etc. and we need the same for our life hereafter.

After Mass, the Celtic Women met at Antoinettes for a farewell lunch and goodby. It is hard to part but we had SUCH a wonderful weekend that it is easy to move on and feast on the memories. I will send a picture of most of us from our Antoinette's lunch.

Guess that is all. The picture will cap everything off.

Love
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Mary