Charlie has friends
August 27, 2008
The day began on a sad note with news of the sudden death of a Fijian Marist Toma Soso. Berenado knew Toma for many years and was his initial point of contact when Toma was thinking about becoming a Marist. It was a relationship that continued and Berenado had a good chat with him before joining the Marist Places Pilgrimage. Understandably he’s taking it pretty hard at the moment.
At the same time, John Beckley also received news of his friend and Marist priest, Pat Primo. Pat was a talented and highly regarded Marist, and at the last election was in the final two that the province considered for Provincial of the Atlanta. Pat had been unwell for some time and at John’s prompting, the renewal group had been praying for Pat, indeed as a symbol of our fraternal bond, John placed his name on the tomb stone of Fr Colin.
Being so far away at these times is difficult and we suspended our normal programme and spent time in prayer for Toma and Pat, around the grave of Fr Colin.
There was also cause for jubilation today as Charlie got a new credit card from Australia. He knew it wasn’t far away because he’d received the PIN number yesterday. Along with his credit card, Charlie left a number of his other personal effects in his carry on luggage on the plane. While it’s been worrying him, and he only had little cash, he’s received many offers of help. Charlie however has been very frugal and still managed to buy a generous selection of sweets for the bus trips. What he has however been unable to replace are the photos that he would have taken as his camera was also in his bag.
It was a stay at home day today with the opportunity to reflect on the journey to Fourviere and do some more reading in preparation for our three day trip to Cerdon and its environs. Domestically it’s also been an important day and the laundry was in constant use.
The timing of our pilgrimage to Cerdon couldn’t have come at a better time as a local chapter of the Piano Accordion players arrived late this afternoon and will be making full use of the La Neyliere.
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