Happy Birthday Benjamin my sweet son! I miss you especially today. I was in the adoration chapel with you this morning. I had your picture with me and I was praying that you would have a gracefilled and blessed day! Sarah and I will call you later on Skype during our breaks. We are now in London attending the Youth 2000 and we are with Fr. Emanuel CFR and your penpal Br. Barnabus CFR. Br. Barnabus is praying especially for you today!
It is interesting that we are in an english speaking country and we have a diffrent translation of the Breiary. So during Morning prayers there was only one psalm exactly the same as theirs in the translation. But still it is nice to pray in community. I hope when you wake up you will also able to pray with us morning prayer this morning!
Sarah has not caught up on the Blog but here sia little of what we did on Sunday and Monday.
Upon arriving in London we took the train to Southhampton station and had some tea. Then we met Br. Barnabus for mas at the Brompton Oratory. The Liturgy was so awesome we felt so at home! It was beautiful! There were Alter Rails and the Oratory was beautiful!
The homily was beautiful it was a letter from the Bishop to all of his diocese. I was thinknig of all of you at home. He spoke of the holy family not only of a Family but of the Church Family! We have so many blessings of friends within our parish and around the world that are such family to us!
We ate a wonderful dinner after evening prayers in the friary! We felt the Christmas ponderings in the Music of the chapel. There was a great nativity in the eating hall and we sang to our host Carol Happy birthday and even a special Capuchin rendition!
The next morning we went to mass and we met a woman whose daughter is a benedictine sister at the Isle of Wight. She asked our names and was amazed becuase she had been praying for us because Fr. Brian had asked the Sisters to pray for his American Goddaughter and her mother Sarah and Sabrena. She does not live at the Isle of Wight. What blessings here in England and Great blessings were in Rome as well!
Monday at Canterbury was a most glorious experience. Praying in the once home of the Arch Bishop Tomas Beckett at his grave and Martyrdom site. We sang and prayed the Catholic Vespers in Gregorian Chant and it seemed that he was praying with us there in the Crypt. There was a feeling of all our friends the Saints and Martyrs praying and praising God for the great miracles God had done there in that Holy Place of Pilgrimage. So many prayers answered there and so many martyrs. Benjamin there was a Franciscan Archbishop of Cantebury in the 1200's
I hope that this message you will receive with great Joy Benjamin and know that I love you dearly and I am always praying for you my son and all ov my children and for Eric as well!
The blessings of Christmas be with you and may the peace of the season and we pray especially that St. Francis will intercede for you to have a peaceful soul throughtout the day!
Benjamin I prayed especially in the Portiunclua in Assisi for you and your vocation. May God bless you abundantly throught the visit we had in Assisi!
Love your mum,
Sabrena
It is interesting that we are in an english speaking country and we have a diffrent translation of the Breiary. So during Morning prayers there was only one psalm exactly the same as theirs in the translation. But still it is nice to pray in community. I hope when you wake up you will also able to pray with us morning prayer this morning!
Sarah has not caught up on the Blog but here sia little of what we did on Sunday and Monday.
Upon arriving in London we took the train to Southhampton station and had some tea. Then we met Br. Barnabus for mas at the Brompton Oratory. The Liturgy was so awesome we felt so at home! It was beautiful! There were Alter Rails and the Oratory was beautiful!
The homily was beautiful it was a letter from the Bishop to all of his diocese. I was thinknig of all of you at home. He spoke of the holy family not only of a Family but of the Church Family! We have so many blessings of friends within our parish and around the world that are such family to us!
We ate a wonderful dinner after evening prayers in the friary! We felt the Christmas ponderings in the Music of the chapel. There was a great nativity in the eating hall and we sang to our host Carol Happy birthday and even a special Capuchin rendition!
The next morning we went to mass and we met a woman whose daughter is a benedictine sister at the Isle of Wight. She asked our names and was amazed becuase she had been praying for us because Fr. Brian had asked the Sisters to pray for his American Goddaughter and her mother Sarah and Sabrena. She does not live at the Isle of Wight. What blessings here in England and Great blessings were in Rome as well!
Monday at Canterbury was a most glorious experience. Praying in the once home of the Arch Bishop Tomas Beckett at his grave and Martyrdom site. We sang and prayed the Catholic Vespers in Gregorian Chant and it seemed that he was praying with us there in the Crypt. There was a feeling of all our friends the Saints and Martyrs praying and praising God for the great miracles God had done there in that Holy Place of Pilgrimage. So many prayers answered there and so many martyrs. Benjamin there was a Franciscan Archbishop of Cantebury in the 1200's
I hope that this message you will receive with great Joy Benjamin and know that I love you dearly and I am always praying for you my son and all ov my children and for Eric as well!
The blessings of Christmas be with you and may the peace of the season and we pray especially that St. Francis will intercede for you to have a peaceful soul throughtout the day!
Benjamin I prayed especially in the Portiunclua in Assisi for you and your vocation. May God bless you abundantly throught the visit we had in Assisi!
Love your mum,
Sabrena
