May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths and superficial relationships, so that you will live deep in your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression and exploitation, of people and the earth. so that you will work for justice, equity and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer so you will reach out your hands to comfort them and seek to change their pain into joy.
And may God bless you with the foolishness to think that you can make a difference in the world, so you will do the things which others say cannot be done.
Amen.

Monday, September 6, 2010

You just have to do it, its the custom, you have to BITE the cake, yummee... But after seven it gets a bit colesteroly
Some of the gang, the youth group celebrating the big one...
Another one...
Help, I can't feel my leg...that's my leg...oh sorry.
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Sunset in the mountains of Ecuador

Sunset in the mountains of Ecuador
God in there somewhere.

A view of the famous "Salt Lake", the world's largest.

A view of the famous "Salt Lake", the world's largest.

An active volcano on the Argentine border.

An active volcano on the Argentine border.
With the "Green Lake" in the foreground.

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A typical home of the indigenous communities

A typical home of the indigenous communities
This is the home of Carmen Saeteros. She has just turned ninty (she thinks). Very often they have difficulty remembering their date of birth. Her very simple house is typical of the indigenous community and made from clay and stray blocks (bloques de adobe) with the luxurious models having tin roofs, (many with stray). These homes are bitterly cold for a man from Belmullet used to the bit hearth full of good black turf. But these are a tougher people. Carmen sleeps on the floor on a large bag filled with animal coat. Inside it is just one room with a table at one end and her bag (bed) at the other. She survives on milk and eggs (dairy products in large quantities being bad and all that jazz, she must have missed that health supplement) With no shoes and no socks, the earthen floor can be well... Recently we have decided to "renovate" her local run-down chapel at a cost or between $2000-2500. She said it was the best New Year present she could have received. She (as the elder stateswoman), and the rest of the community of Rumiurco are very proud of their Christian Catholic faith. Say one for her, she is quite ill at this moment.

Our New Church at Cimientos

Our New Church at Cimientos
Ciemientos is a community in the wilds of the mountains of Ecuador, untouched until recently by the "outside" world. It is a community constituted entirely of indigenous peoples. They speak Kichwa and are intensely uncomfortable speaking in Spanish (as am I, so at least we have that in common). Thanks to the support of the people of my native Erris, Co Mayo, this chapel is nearing completion. Unfortunately because of the incredible effects of the "La Nina" and associated weather patterns, the inauguration will take place in the summer, probably September. But it is a beautiful chapel, built on the foundation of an old Inca structure. (Ciemientos means foundation) They do not rue the loss of the Inca relic because they are decendents of the Canari people who were subjugated by the Inca Empire in the thirteenth century. One back as it were, if not a little too late.

Here we are above the clouds at over 2800metres

Here we are above the clouds at over 2800metres

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