Alaska ...... June 2010

Early morning ... first views of Alaska

Snow capped peaks

stretch for miles and miles

Chuck and Patti Carroll

The City of Seattle taken from aboard ship: The Golden Princess

Dinner inside the Space Needle

Jerry and Carolyn Diamond, Tom Bobe, Chuck Carroll, FP and his twin sister Patti Carroll, Todd Bobe

Seattle ... part 2

View of the bay from the Space Needle

another view

the edge of the city of Seattle from the Needle

The City of Seattle from the Space Needle

Seattle Washington ... June 2010

The Space Needle

Tom Bobe, Patti and Chuck carroll

Pike's Place Market

FP, Patti and Chuck Carroll

Father,

all the elements of Nature obey Your command.

calm the storms that might threaten us

and turn our fear of Your power

into praise of Your goodness.

We ask this through our Lord, Jesus Christ,

Your Son,

Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit,

one God, forever and ever. Amen.

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Closing Mass: the Year of the Priest

On the Feast of the Sacred Heart, 2009, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, initiated a full year for special prayer for all priests around the world.

This past Friday, the Feast of the Sacred Heart, 2010, this unique year of prayer came to a conclusion.

Please continue to remember us priests in your prayers.

To mark this special day, a Mass was celebrated at Holy Spirit Parish in Pensacola:

Anneke Coleman, Reader for the Mass, proclaims the first reading.

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Deacon Tim Holeda, newly ordained transitional Deacon, reads the Gospel. He also preached the Homily for the Mass.

Deacon Tim Holeda and Monsignor James Flaherty

Deacon Tom Dillon, newly ordained transitional Deacon, prepares the altar for Mass.

Monsignor Flaherty and Deacons Tim Holeda and Tom Dillon approach the altar

The Offering of the Gifts in preparation for the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

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Other priests present for the Mass were: Msgr Michael Reed, Father Peter McLaughlin, Father Hector Perez, and myself.

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The Oil is out there for sure . . .

And it's starting to come ashore at Pensacola Beach in the form of tar balls







Workman, above, sift through the seaweed for the tar.

Lord, please assist us!

The Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

One can imagine how good it must have felt for Jesus, after a long day of walking, to have His feet washed and anointed with oil.
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How do you cope with the stresses of daily life and your responsibilities?

Where and how do you find rest and renewal when you really need it?

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"Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which, despite their best intentions, people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And He invites us all to forgive each other."
Lewis B. Smedes


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Life, and my EMAIL, has returned.

My "Daily Connections" resumed on Monday of this week, the day after the Feast of Corpus Christi:

Thank You, Jesus, for coming to my aid....AGAIN!


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Ohhhhhhhh Nooooooooooo

My email is Down today... couldn't send out my Daily Connection. This is not good !

Help me, Lord.

Knights of Peter Claver Ladies Auxiliary St. Felicitas Court 223: Taste of Seasons: 2010

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It was raining outside but it was warm with fellowship and good eatin' on the inside:

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And the food was just too delicious !

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God Speaks to Us Through the Voice of Others:

"Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all."

G.K. Chesterton
British writer
20th century

500,000 Attend Mass Today in Fatima with Pope Benedict XVI

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The Clinic Addition Grows

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Pope Benedict Continues His Visit to Fatima

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Pope Benedict XVI Visits Fatima

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I visited Fatima in the late 1980's after a visit to Lourdes. Fatima is distinctly different from most Marian shrines in the countryside that surrounds it. This is a place of deep reverence and hope.

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God Speaks to Us Through the Voice of Others:

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

Henry David Thoreau

You Are Peter: Part 7

Today Pope Benedict XVI begins his Pastoral visit to the country of Portugal. In an interview aboard the plane today he said:


"Attacks on the pope and the church come not only from outside the church, but the suffering of the church comes from inside the church, from sins that exist inside the church. This we have always known but today we see it in a really terrifying way. The biggest weight on the church doesn't come from the enemies outside, but is born from sin inside the church. The church has a profound need to relearn penance, to accept purification, to learn on the one hand forgiveness but also the necessity of justice. And forgiveness does not substitute justice."



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Happy Mother's Day - all Week Through

God took the fragrance of a flower,
The majesty of a tree,
The gentleness of morning dew,
The calm of a quiet sea,
The beauty of a twilight hour,
The soul of a starry night
The laughter of the rippling brook,
The grace of a bird in flight,
Then God fashioned from these things
A creation like no other,
And when His masterpiece was through,
He called it simply…MOTHER.




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The Feast of Saint Damien of Moloka'i

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Jesus never leaves us alone . . .

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For our beautiful Gulf waters and shoreline...and all its inhabitants

and the back waters of the Sound and the bay:

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