Although most people took a 3-day weekend last weekend, our family
decided to wait until this weekend. We are off to Dallas for a gaming
conference...known as A-Kon. I suppose if you have any interest in this
type of thing it would be quite exciting. Actually, Amanda and Katy have
been planning this for some time and the rest of us just decided to come along
for the ride. It worked out perfect as Christina's school had a trip
planned for Six Flags this weekend as well. The boys and I will most
likely spend our time wandering around some of the 'free' sights we find in the
Big City!
Of course, we could not leave town with a
little excitement first.
Today, is traditionally the feast of
Corpus Christi...a day set aside to remember the belief in the Eucharist as the
Body and Blood...Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. The idea is
that we should celebrate this everyday, especially on the days we attend Mass;
however, if we look back to the Apostolic days, this was soon after the Holy
Spirit came down upon the Apostles at Pentecost. The Apostles were not
fearful upon this transformation of spirit and remembered that Jesus told them
to bless the bread and wine as was done on that fateful night of the Last
Supper (also a Thursday) and consume His Body and Blood. If we truly
believe this (look back to John 6) then we should glorify at the thought of
this presence in the Eucharist. "Every knee shall bend and every
tongue confess." (Romans 14:11) 
One of the many traditions to honor the
Eucharist on this feast day in Europe is to decorate various floral
arrangements at altars around town. The community then processes around
to the altars praying together. These altars are created by the maidens
in the town.
Every year we have tried to do this in the
many churches we have attended but it just did not seem to work out. This
year we were determined to make it happen. We knew we would be out of
town so we purchased fake petals from the local craft store (normally real
petals are used but we feared they would wilt before Sunday) and designed a
simple picture representing the Eucharist. Amanda and Christina formed
the design on the floor in front of the altar, as the rest of us prayed.
They did a great job!
We left the church for the house so we
could grab a quick bite to eat before going into town for our wildlife meeting.
Then we went home to pick up the puppies.
We had decided to leave the puppies with Katy's grandmother for the
weekend. This was a hard decision but we had no way of caring for the
puppies at night as the hotel did not allow pets. We picked up Katy and
left the puppies in short time as we were trying to get to Dallas in time for
the girls to check into the convention.
So now we are in our hotel with the
weekend ahead of us! Looking forward to this time away.
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