Friday, July 21, 2006

Hail O Magdalen; Hail thou Messenger of Joy, of Life, of Hope; Hail Bearer of the True Myrrh, the Balm of Humanity.



SaintMary Magdalen ready for her feast day, Karla putting some finishing touches to her flowers.

She wears Provost Moore's (former parish priest's) jewelled morse.

The new icon reminds us that she is the first witness to the Resurrection and that she brought this wonderous news to the Holy Apostles.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cabn you put a better photograph of the Morse, do you have one of the provost wearing it?

Anonymous said...

She is beautiful, I wish our priest would vest our statuary!!

Lawrence Lew OP said...

Happy Feast day! The Order of Preachers rejoices too in the memory of St Mary Magdalene, apostle to the apostles and patroness of the Order.

Anonymous said...

Our priest has made her look truly beauatiful Thank you.

Anonymous said...

Next year Father can we have trumpets and kettledrums, what about a procession? Please.

Jeffrey Smith said...

If that's your church, then please post more pictures. Inside and out. I looked at the windows in your other blog and would definately like to see more.

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