Who's Your Patron Saint??

Lets start of this blog with a big praise the Lord for the beautiful weather we've experienced here in Athenry this past week. FOUR full days of sun!! That's a record for consecutive sunny days. As I write this, it's a bit dark and cloudy outside but hey we'll take what we can get. This week has been a typical one in the office yet, as for an update with Alex he's been able to join us and be a part of a few more meetings! It's good to have him around and he is determined that our team will be converted to loving his choices of music. These usually include hard rock/screamo...which, I'm not going to lie, he does have a decent array of music and some of the songs are not that bad. With each day he is feeling better and awake during more hours in the day. Keep your prayers coming for him, he's not out of the woods yet!

Last Sunday we had an intriguing Lifenight entitled Night at the Museum. This was a night like none before as Dynae, Diana, Reed, and Veronica dressed up as saints and posed as statues in a museum. Nicole was our lovely museum guide and led the students around to each exhibit at which point the saints came alive and began speaking to the audience. St.Therese(Dynae) and St. Brigid(Veronica) were placed in one exhibit room and they shared their stories of being religious sisters. At one point, while being St. Brigid, I mentioned I had been on the internet earlier in the day and had to save myself by saying Nicole taught me how to use the new technology of computers. In the other room St. Michael(Reed) and St. Lucy(Diana) were big hits with their costumes. Reed was covered in silver from head to toe and Diana had hard-boiled some eggs to make eyeballs on a plate with red paint as blood. After the exhibits gave their presentations the students were invited to pick a patron saint from a list or search for something more specific, with the help of St. Brigid, on the internet. Thanks to the help of Catholic.org we found out that St. Adjutor is the patron saint of swimmers and St. Erin is the patron saint of gingers(also known as red-heads). Nicole wrote down the saints the students chose and later that night we sang a litany of Saints which everyone seemed to enjoy.






Other events in the life of the Athenry Parish team include receiving the key to our van!! We now have transportation, although our own two legs have been managable and sufficient up to now. We will now be able to be even more efficient. Also we have been entertained by Diana's singing as she works diligently on whatever task is at hand. She often has her ipod on fairly loud while we're working independently and with that she often is belting out a tune of some sort. Diana continues to provide the team with smiles and laughter with her wonderful presence.
Praying you all have a wonderful weekend. Please keep our next lifenight in your prayers as well. "Whodunnit!" Cluedo style.
God bless,
Veronica. -Athenry Parish Team