Hello everyone. I hope you are well and keeping safe.
Monday, Monday! The days pass.
After Mass this morning a parishioner gave me a book entitled, This is Happiness by Niall Williams. I like the title very much and for the fun of it I looked through it reading some passages here and there. I couldn’t help but laugh out loud when I fell on a passage that read: “The moment Father Tom stood, the crowd pressed forward as one. The people performed the same miracle they did each Sunday in St. Cecilia’s by moving into a space where there was none. “ I don’t know the context of this quote but it is very obvious to me that he is writing about an experience of going to church in Ireland. Why this passage was so funny to me is because I remember very well my summers in Ireland going to Mass on Sunday and people basically sitting on top of one another with reckless abandon and the closer you sat near the door, the more people sat on top of you!
Have a good day everyone! I leave you with a quote from St Gianna Molla regarding happiness.
“The secret of happiness is to live moment by moment and to thank God for all that He, in His goodness, sends to us day after day.”