The day of the Holy Father's funeral was also the 20th anniversary of our chapel's consecration by Jan Cardinal Schotte. When the Cardinal was leaving Rome for America, John Paul II gave him a chalice and paten as gifts for us. Today Father Heisler used them at Mass.

And the Gospel today! "Stay with us Lord, for it is almost evening." Mane Nobiscum Domine. His last letter to us.

I shivered all over when I heard those words, as I'm sure many did.



Oh, and the rest of my cherry blossom pictures are here, at Fiddleback Fever.