tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post5893260602920297507..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: We're alive and kicking, y'all. . .Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-20927613004208681502012-09-02T10:05:29.987-05:002012-09-02T10:05:29.987-05:00Good morning, Father Mouldy!
Indeed, so glad y'...Good morning, Father Mouldy!<br />Indeed, so glad y'all came through unscathed. My thoughts and prayers were (and still are)often with you and all those in the areas impacted by the storm - I remember those many days without electricity or drinkable water after Hurricane Frederic. Out here the big storms are in the winter - I haven't yet decided which is worse: no A/C in a Southern summer or no heat in a Pacific NW winter. Either way, glad you are well and are now enjoying the de-humidifying effects of air conditioning :-). Shellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05485793986602894527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-88297142290636753752012-09-02T09:26:26.195-05:002012-09-02T09:26:26.195-05:00So glad to know you're well. Isaac kindly sen...So glad to know you're well. Isaac kindly sent us days of desperately needed, soaking rain up here in Missouri, but I'm sorry it came at such a cost to those of you down south.Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12543778974085045141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-15384799593199669152012-09-02T06:17:00.952-05:002012-09-02T06:17:00.952-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-386409058386111142012-09-01T22:59:04.427-05:002012-09-01T22:59:04.427-05:00"I am just grateful not to be wet anymore.&qu..."I am just grateful not to be wet anymore." Some people just don't know when they are lucky. I live in the West of Scotland. I don't think I've been "not wet" yet. But I'm only 60. And we ARE talking on the outside.<br /><br />"Monsoon", etymologists tell us, comes via the Portuguese "monção" [the Portuguese have for long been associated with Goa] from the Arabic [for a very long time most of Portugal was Muslim ruled] mawsim (موسم "season"). That via may have been by way of early modern Dutch "monsun".<br /><br />This is all nonsense. Monsoon comes from Broad Scots, as in: "C'mon, son, get in oot the rain."<br /><br />Anyway, glad that Gods dogs are safe and well. My friend's younger brother is one of your Scottish cousins, Fr Brendan Slevin OP, Chaplin to the University of Strathclyde. Last time I was in Rome (late November 2007 for the consistory), I went to confession at St Mary Major's and was heard by Fr Norbeto Castillo OP, who had spent a year at Edinburgh University and knew Brendan. I was also introduced to the then Fr Gus diNoia by one of our Scottish priests who worked under him at the CDF (Msgr Pat Burke). Hughiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10184567496296840443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-54844511799909494442012-09-01T21:25:31.436-05:002012-09-01T21:25:31.436-05:00I checked in several times but figured you were wi...I checked in several times but figured you were without power and imagined August in NO without air conditioning! Glad that you are all well@Sherry Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428918256547725187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-23859574671770735902012-09-01T20:14:59.291-05:002012-09-01T20:14:59.291-05:00Thank God...!
Welcome back...your absence left us...Thank God...!<br /><br />Welcome back...your absence left us all worried...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com