BACK FROM CHRISTMAS DINNER WITH THE GEACHES............

Amost enjoyable Christmas Dayt it has been, as I departed MMT at 8 a.m. and went to St. Rose's / St. Patrick's, in South Sacramento and concelebrated the 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Masses in St. Rose's Church with Msgr. Ed Kavanagh and preached at them.  Visiting afterwards with him, Msgr. Jim Church, Victor, Roger, Sally and Frank McNamara, Lou and Mary Maucieri, Ralph Merletti, Father Bill Dinelli, and an array of longtime St. Rose parishioners.  aT 2 p.m., I proceeded with Roger Geach to his and Karin's home in Elk Grove, for their Family's Christmas Day Dinner.  Three of their four children Kellie, Ryan, Rodd, and their spouses, Patrick, Josefina, Karla, and their kids were gathered, with only daughter Kristen, her Lars, and their three children not there, due to cold / flu, and traveling distance.   It was an animated and awesome family celebration with brought me so many memories and made more of them of the nearly three and a half decades of my friendship with them.   A mellow out night and good sleep and a reflective and prayerful second day on the horizon, as I savor as it is my wish for you, the Christmas Eve and Day, gatherings, liturgies, dinners, and fa,ily celebrations you took part in.    That's it for the 1st Day of Christmas Day 2012-13; ............Fr.  Troy