On the road with Fr. Emil, April 2007
05/May/2007 08:54 AM Filed in: Mission
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Fr. Emil
After leaving the
Kasson/Byron area in Minnesota, we spent Palm Sunday
at Burlington in southern Wisconsin. At a retreat
center there, persons from all over the United States
ranging from California to Florida met to discuss
issues on how to improve support for the
missions.
For Holy Week, Fr. Emil
celebrated services for Gypsum parish outside of his
hometown of Salina, Kansas. Leaving Kansas, where it
snowed three inches on Holy Thursday, we headed out
for sunny Florida with temperatures in the high 80’s.
Father celebrated Mass at the cathedral for the
weekend of April 14-15 and again in St. Augustine,
Florida for the parishioners of St. Anastasia the
following week. While in St. Augustine we had a
reunion dinner where volunteers gathered to reminisce
their mission trip to Honduras. From there it was
back north towards Chicago that brought Fr. Emil and
I to the small town of Braceville, Illinois for the
Masses of the last weekend of April.