I brought my camera with me into the choir section, up front this morning at the 11 o’clock mass. In many of my blogs from Europe I shared with you that I often found that the choir outnumbered the attendance in the pews and that the average age of the congregation was above 60 years . From the below picture you will see a sharp difference on both counts. Eleven young adults wanting to become church members and make their first communion at Easter. I reported from the Philippines and Vietnam standing room only and the churches filled with young families. The American attendance ought to be the envy of most of the European priests and ministers but on the other hand the American church choir directors would give their right arm for the Dutch church choirs. We were just two tenors today.
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- View from Lisa and Harry’s home, with Full Moon
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- 3rd Advent Candle, Fr. Bailey,11 Candidates
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- St. Nicholas Church, Gig Harbor my parish since 1984
It is starting to look a lot like Christmas. Lisa dressed the tree yesterday and Harry strung the lights on the house. This afternoon I stopped to see my good friend Roger in Tacoma. It has been cold. We had a full moon eclipse yesterday morning but it was foggy and cloudy, so, I skipped the exercise of getting out before 6 a.m.
