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  Lima, Utah, Peru
Monday, December 1, 2008

It's Monday morning and the week-end was pretty busy. For starters Fr. Moe had to do some
errands at the big market in downtown Lima. Material for the hospital curtains that hang from
rods that encircle the the beds in a hospital ward. Once accomplished, bring the cloth to people
who are cutters and sewers who will take this huge pile of  the same cloth you see hanging
around hospital beds, and follow the measurements given to them, perform the tricks of their
trade, and bingo! picked up this week and ready to be loaded on the plane and river boat
that will transport us to Santa Clotilde on the 21st, of this Month. Next find a store that will
make six jackets for the boat crews that transport patients and goods to and from the clinic
in Santa Clotilde. After that, find a place that can make 200 calendars, marked Santa
Clotilde, friends and supporters of the clinic. As I type this, it really sounds all so simple,
cut and dry, but believe me the Lima Market, (Moe just told me that I misinformed you in
my last writings. Correction, it's the City of Lima that has a populatiom of 9 million not the
country of Peru. Sorry about that).  Well I'm certain, that everyone of the 9 million went to
the market in downtown Lima last Saturday. Finding the little shops that had what was needed
would have been out of the question for someonelike who does'nt speak Spanish.  In the middle of
the afternoon I mentioned to Moe: "I'll bet God does'nt know how many people are in this
market". After that an hour ride home on a Combi (looks like a Dodge van) had a dish of 
ice cream and strawerries, and off to the church, Our Lady of Peace, Parish, to assist at  two
weddings. Actually, my participation is limited to distributing Communion and sprinkling those
who present themselves with Holy Water, and of course blessing children. All the above are
popular.
We were on the road by 6,30 Sunday morning in a little ricksha sort of machine, powered
by a small mortor-cycle with two seats in the back and a roof over our heads. The Parish
consists of one hundred thousand, now I don't remember if that's people or families, there
are 14 chapels also run by the people of the parish.  Fr. Moe had the 7.00 a.m. Eucharist
in the first chapel and the same thing all over again at 8,30 in another chapel. About ten
minutes apart by the ricksah-like machine. Around 200 of the faithful had gathered in each
place for a very lively celebration for the first Sunday of Advent. The choirs were made up
of very enthusiastic and talented teen-agers and folks in their early twenties. Reminded me
of the celebrations in Kenya. Everyone singing and clapping to the beat of the bongo
drums. Fr, Moe was in his element, and had the entire congregation singing in two parts with
the choir a very lively hymn inviting the Lord to be with us in this Season of Advent as we  a
a new Liturgical Year, filled with hope.
Yesterday afternoon, another bus ride downtown, to the house of patients from Santa
Clotilde, for an outing to the sea-side, an amusement place like Ontario Place in Toronto,
but bigger. The place was crowded and for all but one of the young patients from the house
this was their first visit to the ocean. We ate hamburgers and ice cream and the kids helped
me with my spanish. I keep calling them kids, but really the youngest one is seventeen, so 
should be refering to them as young adults. 
Before this all disappears, like the two entries I lost on Saturday, I am going to send this and 
try to edit it after the trip down-town and the Spanish lesson at four o'clock this afternoon.
Hope to continue later, bye for now,
Vaughan
 
 

 
  







 
 
 

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