Rained during the night and Sunday morning was cold and drizzly. Mark and I went to 9:00 Mass at St. Charles Borromeo, Today marks the start of the Advent season and as always, St. Charles has the LARGEST Advent wreath we've ever seen. It's fresh evergreens and the huge wreath stretches across the center aisle of church from extending from end pew to the other. Several tall folks have to duck to avoid hitting their heads, but it's beautiful and we love that fresh scent.
Father Ken Whittington has been the priest at St. Charles for 32 years and baptized Luke and Maeve and they + Blair made their First Communion with Father. He is 83 years old and today announced he is retiring after Christmas. Father Ken is a convert to the Catholic faith and been very involved in the parish's musical ministry. He started playing the piano at age 5 and traveled to Germany as a Fulbright scholar He was ordained a priest at the age of 46. And on and on his story goes....very impressive. We wish him a long, healthy retirement - well deserved!
After Mass we went to Waterbean (favorite coffee shop in Morganton). Philip, Annette and Maeve joined us after dropping Luke off for confirmation class. Got some fuel in Ruby and on home.
Started packing and getting all our stuff together - back on the road tomorrow heading south to warm sunshine!
Euchre in the afternoon with Annette and I beating the guys 2 games. Then the rubber match left from yesterday's 1-1 game between Mark and Annette and Philip and myself - they were the winners! Lots of euchre this weekend but todays cards were much better.
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