Published April 9th, 2007
Easter @ New Norcia
Well, I am finally back from my Easter Celebrations! For Easter Sunday we (me, my hubby Filip and my mum) went to New Norcia (check out the gallery for our pics!) for mass.
This was a bit of late decision on our part, since we came up with the idea on Saturday afternoon. We had been invited to a friends ’shack’ in Grey (near Cervantes) for Easter, but we couldn’t make it for the whole weekend. Initially we weren’t going to go but by Saturday we decided we had to go somewhere because if we stayed at home only one thing would happen….mum would clean, then we would have a little Easter breakfast and that would have been pretty much it. It just didn’t seem appropriate. So on Saturday Filip thought ‘hey why not go up to Adam’s (said friend’s name)’ and then he thought ‘why not first go to New Norcia for morning mass and then go to Adam’s’. This sounded great…until we realised we would have to leave at about 7:00am to ensure making it to the 9:00am mass…but we were committed, and so, come Sunday morning, we were off….half an hour late.
But we were still in good shape to make it to mass on time…until we hit the the roadworks, which reduced the usual 110km/hr limit to 60km/hr for ages! But we could still make it. Then we got stuck behind a ute which resolutely decided to drive 70km/hr. But we eventually managed to overtake him. This left us with just a little time to spare, but we thought with a little bit of prayer we would still make it. Then we caught up with 2 halves of a large shed (really it was starting to look like someone really didn’t want us to get to mass at all!). This slowed progress quite a bit, and we started to think we wouldn’t make it. But then we miraculously got a chance to overtake the shed and we were on our way. We ended up making it to mass only 10mins late and it looked like it had started late. It was a beautiful service: simple, reverent and a great homily. We took heaps of pics of the church and some of the surrounds, so our gallery is full of Benedictine stuff.
After church we went to the store and stocked up on New Norcia bread, wine and other tidbits and had our little Easter breakfast. Itself an experience. It was windy, the table cloth would not stay and as we finished it started to rain. But nothing beats eating Easter morning breaky outside with the birds and nature and freshly baked Benedictine bread…yumm.
Once we finished we were off to Adams to enjoy the rest of the long weekend. (For more on this part of our holiday see my ramblingmouse blog @ ramblingmouse.com/blog in a day or so)
