Down Memory Lane

Forever Young Seniors Fashion Show Luncheon

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St. Maurice Social Hall became the venue for The Forever Young Seniors Fashion Luncheon. The attendees mingled and enjoyed  as dinner prepared by  Chefs George Zinkler and Michael Agius was served. The entree was Boneless Breast of chicken saute Marsala. By all reports, the entree and sides were outstanding.

Soloist Joan Rose Hasselbach accompanied the meal.

Following the meal, the Fashion show took the participants Down Memory Lane under the guidance of directors Joan Richardson, Provie Ferrante and Charlotte Sloboda. The models professionally strode the runway displaying attire provided by Second Time Around Clothing.

The first segment featured models wearing daytime casual fashions selected to encourage reminisances  of the 20′s thru the 50′s.

As a special dessert and coffee and tea were served, those in attendance eagerly snapped up offerings from Second Time Around Clothing.

In the second segment of the show, the models brought to life the 60′s thru 2000 wearing their On the Town Fashions.

Raffle drawings featuring baskets from An Affair to Remember and Hooray’s Hollywood  were followed by a reprise of favorite scenes from previous shows.  A Visit Back to Hawaii was followed by a Sentimental Journey and by April in Paris. There was time to Remember Your Favorite Month.

The innate beauty of The Forever Young Models, Lee, Jackie, Marion, Isabel, Lucy, Elba, Angela, Rose, Provie and Anna was enhanced by the clothing that they modeled. They were joined by  our  male models,  Chuck, Bob, Chris, and Carmen.

There was a surpise visit to cap the show with refined dignity. Marie Antoinette’s royal look alike appeared with great aplomb and dignified presence to grace the event. Strangely, the royal look alike bore a striking resemblence to our parish nun, Sr. Pat. With royal dignity and stamina she held her weakly sewn seamed costume together with the help of her ladies in waiting. Her presence added warmth to an already effusive atmosphere. It also led to peals of laughter. Thunderous applause marked the final parade of the models.

There was a round of applause for  our hostesses, Anna and Charlotte as well as for the servers from the St. Maurice Special Team. Angela and Jackie handled ticket sales and Babe oversaw the door prizes.

It’s no wonder that the Forever Young Seniors Fashion  Luncheon is world renowned!

Easter Triduum

EasterTriduum

The Promise of EASTER

Dear Family,

The first thing to recognize about the Triduum is that it is “The Three Days”. It is a unified observance that extends over three days, and it forms its own unique and central part of the liturgical year. For many people today, these three days are still as part of Lent; for others, they stand as three separate and somewhat independent days celebrating different events in the life of Christ. But Lent ends on Thursday afternoon, and the Triduum is best seen as one integral observance that includes a variety of liturgical moments.

The Triduum is more than its liturgies, too. Keeping these three days, means exactly that – three full days live as one central moment in the life of every Christian and of the Christian community as a whole.

The liturgy of the Triduum begins with the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper and concludes with the last Mass on Easter Sunday. Between these two gatherings for prayer and worship, the Christian church is called to enter into a period of prayer, fasting and vigiling, which reaches a climax at the Easter Vigil. The principal liturgies even suggest the unity of the Triduum by the way they end and begin. On Thursday, there is no dismissal or conclusion; on Friday we gather and leave with no introductory or concluding rites; and at the Vigil we gather around the fire and begin without the usual introductory rites. We begin on Thursday and don’t conclude until after the Vigil, with Easter Sunday as a kind of extension of the celebration of the Vigil.

Understanding the Triduum as one three-day-long liturgy can help us find the right approach to each of the various ritual moments within it. The Evening Mass on Holy Thursday is a liturgy of entrance into the Triduum, not primarily a celebration of the institution of the Eucharist or of the ordained priesthood. Good Friday’s main liturgy commemorates the death of the Lord, but as a part of the whole paschal mystery (note that we call it “Good Friday”), which is celebrated in its fullness at the Easter Vigil, when our newest members enter into the death and resurrection of the Lord through the waters of baptism. Easter Sunday is a day of reveling in the mystery we celebrate at the Vigil, a day for the glow of the feast to be enjoyed and savored.

These days are the hinge of the year, the central moment around which all else revolves. The Triduum gives meaning to Lent, which precedes it, and to the Fifty Days of Easter that follow. As the Lent-Easter cycle is the core of the year, so the Triduum is the core of Lent-Easter. These days are central because they draw us into the heart of our identity as church. The paschal mystery of Jesus’ death and resurrection is the core of our faith and our participation in that mystery through the celebration of baptism defines what it meant to be Christian and what it means for the community to be church.

Peace and All Goodness,

Father Roger