Mike, Evelyn, Frank, Pat, Chuck, Patti, Carolyn, Jerry:

Mike, Evelyn, Frank, Pat, Chuck, Patti, Jerry, Carolyn:

Mike, Evelyn, Frank, Pat, Chuck, Patti, Jerry, Father Pat:

Street deco:

Times Square:

The group is in this photo: who knows where:

Looking out the elevator on way up to the top of the Marriott:

Christmas tree in the lobby of the restaurant:

The View, Restaurant on top the of Marriott, Times Square:

View of NYC night: from inside the rotating View restaurant:

Jerry, Carolyn, Frank, Pat, Patti, Chuck, Evelyn, Mike:

Another night view:

Chuck and Patti, on the subway:

Frank is thrilled! can't you tell.

Jerry, Carolyn, Mike, Evelyn, Pat, Frank, Chuck, Patti: let's dodge this rain and get to Macy's-

Off the Subway, passing into Greeley Square Park across the street from Macy's:

Let's get outta this rain:

Macy's Dept. Store

Window at Macy's:

Inside Macey's, New York City:

Wooden Escalator steps inside Macey's:

Some decorations:

Mike, Evelyn, Pat, Frank, Patti, Chuck, Carolyn, Jerry (look out New York!)
-- in the lobby of the Edison Hotel

Father Pat and his twin sister, Patti:

Eataly Caffe: a diner we missed:

What's left of the old World Trade Center:

Carolyn feeding the pigeons:

Pat, Carolyn, Patti and Chuck:

Wake up Jerry:

Patti and Chuck:

New World Trade Center rises:

Brooklyn Bridge:

Brooklyn Bridge:

Outside the Restaurant, Harbor Lights, Pier 17, where we stopped for lunch:

After all that walking this is all I get for lunch? Grrrrrrr

In front of Creche inside St. Patrick's Cathedral:
Jerry, Carolyn, Chuck, Patti, Pat, Frank

Evelyn, Jerry, Chuck, Patti, Pat, Frank, Father Pat

In front of Rockefeller Center leaving Mass of the Immaculate Conception at St. Patrick's:

Breakfast, again, at the Edison Hotel

Gettin Ready for Christmas:

Great-niece, Adrianne


Great nephew, Brandon:

Family baking Christmas cookies (wish I were there):

December 14: the Feast of St. John of the Cross

Faith-ful Words:

"God sustains every soul and dwells in it substantially, even though it be that of the greatest sinner in the world."
St. John of the Cross

Faith-ful Words:

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"The nearness of God transforms reality, the dark valley loses its danger - it is emptied of every threat."
Benedict XVI

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Today: The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

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Celebrating Mass in the Basilica in Mexico at her Shrine was simply miraculous, how was I able to experience this moment?! To be there, with Juan Diego's tilma behind me, her image imprinted there for these hundreds of years - truly amazing.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.


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The Third Sunday of Advent

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Faith-ful Words:

"I see in my neighbor the Person of Jesus Christ."
St. Gerard Majella

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Sunday, December 4, 2011: Second Sunday of Advent

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Faith-ful Words:

"Nature chose for a tool ... the tender snow flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries."
John Muir

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Faith-ful Words:

"Our Lord does not come down from heaven every day to lie in a golden ciborium. He comes to find another heaven which is infinitely dearer to Him - the heaven of our souls."
St. Therese of Lisieux

Faith-ful Words:

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
Oscar Wilde