Pentecost

Last Supper Room
on Pentecost Day

Last Sunday was Pentecost. Our traditional Vespers sung at the Last Supper Room was disrupted by protesting Jews who pray downstairs in "David's Tomb." The newspapers report that huge groups of jews also disrupted an evangelical prayer gathering near the Wailing Wall on Pentecost. These evangelicals are traditional allies of the jews, because they're pro-Zionist christians ... but now they wake up to reality ... the jews don't like them. Police had to push the protesters back.

Despite tiredness and swollen feet, I went to the Last Supper Room and celebrated Mass for you there. Our community there kindly arranged for me to celebrate Mass before the church was open to the public. It was a privilege.

The nursing nun who first rightly diagnosed my "asthma" problem as heart disease came to see me last week. Seeing my swollen feet and hands for 5 months, she said it's no longer a heart problem but my kidneys. Maybe the medications are too heavy and affected my kidneys. I hope to see another doctor soon.