What's up in Boston

Hi Y'all,

Happy Easter from Boston! I've been meaning to post some current events for awhile. Better late than never!

I'll start with Holy Week. We did our own Holy week services this year at NU.

We had Holy Thursday mass followed by a Eucharistic procession across the street to the Catholic Center.

Where we had adoration for a while.

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Then about 25 of us took to the streets to go "church hopping". We went to several Chapel's aong the way to pray (one of them in Mall) We sing along the way, it's quite a scene!

We met up with some BU students and our numbers swelled to about 80!

We finished up at the Cathedral where we packed out the adoration chapel. Students led some praise and worship music, then we had night prayer with Cardinal O'Malley.

Good Friday we had Stations of the Cross out in the middle of campus!

Of course we did the rest of the awesome Easter celebrations, but I didn't get any pictures of them!

It has been a great Easter Season so far.

I did an 8 day Ignatian retreat last week. It was a great way to experience God's love for me in a deeply meditative time.

Yesterday I rode 101 miles with a large group of local bikers. My legs are a little sore!

The only picture I got was at the begining with 0 miles on the odometer. It rained hard only the 1st 40 miles, then cleared up. It was a lot of fun anyway!

God Bless and I hope to see you all sometime before July!

Love,

John, Uncle John, etc.

Well from my spot over here on South 9th i can hear Uncle Mark already barking orders and taking names as the ice scultures and flamingos are ushered into the grand hall on Tompkins ave. Also Rumor has it that Anna has prepared a 300 square foot mural of our Lord in his glory for this years back drop in the grand Tompkins hall.... Ah! yes it is true the prapartions for the (shhh don't say the word) " " Brunch have already begun!

Baba suposedly has been cooking kilbossi by Robby's order since Easter Monday of last year and reportedly has amassed several tons... while uncle mark has been working on the pefection of the Pancake flip... Ah yes anticipation is in the air! But is that not the point! Absolutely it is... Good Lent, Bad lent or indifferent Come this Sunday the chips are all in and we wait to see what happens... How exciting!!!!

But i think we all agree a few questions need some answering before this great bash commences....

1) Will JPIII on his first Easter Bash ever in his life absolutely rock the Easter egg hunt and steal the thrown of egg ethuist from his dear sister Kiera? (I think this is an obvious answer)

2) Will Uncle Mark talk of the Eagles "resurection" (notice the lower case "r") ... (obviously yeah he will and the good Lord knows they need one)

3) Will there be any suprise guests that Pete is excited about? ....

4) Will Grandma once again claim her throne on the Nitendo Wii tennis court?

5)Will there bbe a convertable there for the kids to experince what this day is all about ... which obviously is driving around with several young children hanging out of a car screamming at the neighbors and the neighbors wondering if there is a fire somewhere

6) And Finally As the flowers bloom and the birds sing will uncle Pete play the ever so famous 149 Howell drive song?....

One this is for sure... God has blessed us and will surely bless us this " " Brunch

See ya there:)

Pete

TEXAS!

Hi Y'all,

We made it back from Texas on Sat. night. It was a great trip! 24 of us went down to help the recovery from Hurricane Ike which flooded most of Galveston Island. We got lots of work done, but most importantly spent time praying together and building community. Its like part service trip part retreat. Here are some pictures.

God Bless

Uncle John

Partial group shot on the beach at sunset. It is spring break after all, you didn't expect not to go in the water!

The house I worked at most of the week installing windows. You can see the inside needs a bit more work!


My favorite hole in the wall we passed everyday. I think a boat or something crashed through it in the storm.

We spent a little time in NH recuperating and woke up to some non beach weather!

Sabrina helps me spread the true Yankee faith here in Red Sox land.

I've been wanting to post some pictures of John Paul and the girls. Here they are.

Also save the date for Bridget's FIRST COMMUNION: Saturday May 2nd. Party at our house in the afternoon.

Pete/Uncle Pete

&Kate/Aunt Kate

BIRTHDAY BOY

Hi All - JUST WANT TO WISH HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR

ELDEST SON WHO TURNS 15 TOMMOROW!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK ANDREW!!

WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Family Party Anyone?!!??!

I believe that it has been far too long since the Mccabe familyhas gotten together and boogied! I have hopes that the warmer weather shall bring a more festive spirit to the last few months of an uncharactoristic McCabe family party drought. I mean i don't think spetchla(sp?) and meatballs have touched my lips in months. i think part of it has been i have not been around on a weekend since september but nontheless its time reenkindle the party magic. The point of this post is to encourage people to post their future parties on the blog. God Bless and party on!!!

this comes to you from cinncinati... pretty nice city actually

Pedro

Greetings from Lyco

Hi everyone, I thought it was high time that everyone saw a little bit of my college and friends that I met here. Today I will show you my roommate who you have probably already guessed is the strange blonde haired girl that you've never seen before (minus Mom and Anna) and you can also see a little bit of my dorm. Isn't it lovely, just kidding. I'll send you more pictures later. Love you all, Abby