Domingo Pasado en Parroquia San Cristóbal

Sunday we celebrated our Patronal Festival, la Fiesta de San Cristóbal, with a visit from our Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Julio E. Murray. Seven young people were confirmed. The Bishop used some interesting visual aids with his sermon: he passed around small stones to everyone and also used bloques to illustrate the blocks used to build a church. He had volunteers write the name Jesús on the foundation stone and then invited them to write their own names on the other stones.

We had special music with Sean Murray (the Bishop's son) and Saúl Cáceres (Padre Cáceres' son) on steel-pan with Miguel Mazza on saxophone, the Lovely Mona on flute, Marcos on drums, Reynaldo Taylor on organ, and your's truly on bass. We played "How Great Thou Art" and "Oh Happy Day!" and it went quite well!

After church we had a Family Fair. We sold lots of food (Empanadas, Fish Cek, Padre's Killah Chili con Carne, Chicken and Ham with rice and either potato salad or mixed green salad, and lots of cakes) and we had games for the kids. I spent much of Friday and Saturday coming up with little kid games. We also had video games for the older kids, which the boys dominated, of course. Everyone had a wonderful time!

Here are photos.



The Bishop's Sermon





Confirmation


Emily



Saúl



Abdul



Lisa



Alejandra



Antonio



Hillary


The Offertory

Saúl Cáceres y Sean Murray on steel-pan

The band



Communion

Antonio

Lisa

Hillary

¡Feria!


Ball toss


This game is a win-win. One picks a Bom Bom Bum from the tree. If it has a colour on the end of the stick, one wins a prize. If not, one has a Bom Bom Bum! Win Win!



Hi! Frow a ball at me!

Hungry people buying lots of food!

Playing games