It’s SNOWING!!!!! I am writing at 9:45 and it is starting to SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!! We’ve been having a very relaxing retreat here at Quarr with Fr. Brian. Yesterday, Sabrena and Fr. Brian went for a bike ride around the area. They went to the first house that the Solems lived in, which was bombed in WW II. They ate lunch there. It was a six hour bike ride! Lots of hills towering hills! The weather was pretty nice yesterday, except for an occasional wind. I didn’t go because I wasn’t feeling well, but I feel just fine now so no worries! I read Oedipus Rex, the book I’m reading for Literature Class in 2 hours! Sabrena and I are finishing the book Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. We will watch the movie on the train up to London on Friday.
We have been able to go to Mass and almost all the hours every day from Vigil, or the Office of Readings, to Compline, or Night prayer and everything in between! This morning I actually got up at 5am for Vigil for the first time this week! Then I went back to sleep at 6:20, got up again at 6:45 and went to Lauds! This morning for breakfast, we had Wheatabix. It is a bar of grain kind of like a cereal bar, and you pour milk over it like cereal and eat it. (We put a little pinch of sugar with some bananas in it to give it some flavor). It was pretty good. We are blending right in to the English culture…
Tonight Fr. Brian is going to have Dinner with us in the flat. We are having pasta with a spinach mushroom and white wine sauce. We are putting in garlic from the Garlic Farm on the Island and an onion from the monastery garden. Mmmmm! The monks have been so hospitable feeding us some massive meals during the octave of Christmas. We have not eaten this much since we left Italy save the night in the Friary for Carol’s Birthday dinner. Thank you all who have given us of the bounty of the earth. May God reward you hundredfold!
It is time for sext the little hours of the monastery which is so peaceful and wonderful to participate in. Then off to lunch to hear the biography of an English diplomat during the Cold War in the 1960’s we have been hearing the book every meal in the refectory…
We suggested that they might read the biography of J.R.R. Tolkien then we will join them again for meals in the refectory…
We have been able to go to Mass and almost all the hours every day from Vigil, or the Office of Readings, to Compline, or Night prayer and everything in between! This morning I actually got up at 5am for Vigil for the first time this week! Then I went back to sleep at 6:20, got up again at 6:45 and went to Lauds! This morning for breakfast, we had Wheatabix. It is a bar of grain kind of like a cereal bar, and you pour milk over it like cereal and eat it. (We put a little pinch of sugar with some bananas in it to give it some flavor). It was pretty good. We are blending right in to the English culture…
Tonight Fr. Brian is going to have Dinner with us in the flat. We are having pasta with a spinach mushroom and white wine sauce. We are putting in garlic from the Garlic Farm on the Island and an onion from the monastery garden. Mmmmm! The monks have been so hospitable feeding us some massive meals during the octave of Christmas. We have not eaten this much since we left Italy save the night in the Friary for Carol’s Birthday dinner. Thank you all who have given us of the bounty of the earth. May God reward you hundredfold!
It is time for sext the little hours of the monastery which is so peaceful and wonderful to participate in. Then off to lunch to hear the biography of an English diplomat during the Cold War in the 1960’s we have been hearing the book every meal in the refectory…
We suggested that they might read the biography of J.R.R. Tolkien then we will join them again for meals in the refectory…
Hello Sabrena and Sarah. Love the pictures and the stories. See you in Charlotte tonight.
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yummmm garlic! we made, and have plenty to share, homemade garlic butter! ummmm. e
ReplyDeleteWheatabix....that is a staple here in Ireland. The boys love it!!! They also have Oatabix. What an awesome journey. What a blessing to experience such a journey...thanks for sharing!
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