Visit to the Cathedral by Edge

Our Edge group visited the recently restored St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica on Friday evening.  Great tour with the Rector - Fr. Michael Busch. 

Thanks to the Cathedral Staff who kept the building open for us so we could do this Tour after Hours! Here are our Family of Faith dollars at work!

Fr. Michael Waites - Friend and Mentor

Last week I went to Trenton, NJ to visit a priest mentor of mine who has been diagnosed with stage 4 Prostate Cancer. 
Fr. Michael Waites originally grew up in the Philadelphia area, and studied in Toronto and was ordained a priest for Toronto. 
He was the associate Pastor in my home parish – Blessed Trinity - and instilled in me a love for Liturgy – and Big Symbols. He preached at my first Mass.
After 9/11 it was getting harder to travel back and forth across the Border, and his mother was declining – so he was able to transfer to Trenton NJ Diocese. He retired 1.5 years ago, at 70 years of age. He is living in a priest retirement home – a nice place in Lawrenceville, NJ,  called “Villa Vianney”.
Last July he was feeling horrible all of a sudden before celebrating Mass at a parish nearby – and so he eventually went to the Hospital. This was the first time in his life he had been in an ER! 
They found a mass on his Kidney and metastases to lungs… within a week or 2 they had removed the kidney.
He is going thru Chemo now. They did some radiation in the new year – because of mets to the bones – in his neck area.
He still looks like I remember him - and he is a fighter! Please keep him in your prayers. 

Welcome to Ordinary Time

In the last week a long awaited Christmas gift arrived - as we re-entered Ordinary Time. I received my Mavic Pro Drone from DJI.
This had been on order since the beginning of November. 

I was able to fly it a few times this past week and get some great images. 




We are experiencing technical difficulties at this time! but more shots to come soon!