Sunday, April 18, 2010

Plans for Golden Week

If you live in Japan, what are you doing for Golden Week?

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It's coming up fast. I hadn't made any plans, because you'd have to be desperate and insane to go traveling during one of the few times in the year when every other person in Japan feels liberated to see the sights.

But I felt a twinge of regret. Then a surge of audacity! The call of the open skies!

I could take that trip to Australia I've always wanted.... or to Alaska... or.. or...

Filled with the feeling of possibilities, I went so far as to hunt down airfares from various websites and travel companies.

And then the dream was over.

Pop!

Golden Week is one of the most expensive times to travel in or out of Japan.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

He is Risen! Happy Easter!!!




I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Vigil and Easter morning!!

We didn't have a Latin Exultet at my parish here, but that didn't stop me from gleefully humming it all the way home. This is the one I always remember, sung by Fr. Zuhlsdorf at the Church of St. Agnes in St. Paul, MN.

Now I can eat chocolate again! Funny, I don't really want it anymore.

The past four days have been an intense and blessed experience. One of the reasons is that in a location where Mass is usually only available once or twice a week, in a place where the only Christians you see are the ten or twenty at your church, it's beautiful to be able to go and to be with all the other believers for this most holy feast.

Alleluia!