Lenten Leftovers and Pax-Bredes

We will hopefully be posting more of our backlog before the end of the year.

Tea with milk, soda bread, and Kerrygold butter

Exercises

During Lent, the Brothers prayed the Lenten Exercises at each other's houses, with each week's host providing a soup supper as usual. We visited Frater Tom Gray's house twice during Lent, and we enjoyed garlic bread, corn chowder, and grapes as part of our meals. Recounting his time in the Navy, Frater Tom also passed the rum bottle around.

One of our Chorus Breviarii members not yet made a Brother also hosted Exercises, with supper consisting of soda bread with butter, three kinds of soup (lentil and potato leek were certainly the standouts), and various beverages, including tea and hot toddies.

Frater Ron Clemente hosted us once again Walsingham Burrow and provided us with a tom yum soup and Vietnamese-style fresh spring rolls with peanut sauce.

Courtesy: Fratellino

A New Case for the Pax-Bredes

After spending a few years in a disheveled Amazon delivery box, our pax-bredes have found a new home in a carry case procured to us by Frater Ron. The paxes can now sit comfortably in custom-fitted foam rather than resting haphazardly on bubble wrap inside a crumbled piece of carboard.

Courtesy: Vaticanguard

Open-air Mass in Pala c. 1910-1911, from an unknown photographer

A Small Historic Note

There are various photographs hanging inside Peterson Hall at UCSD that document the lives of San Diego's various bands of Mission Indians during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One such photo depicts a Low Mass being celebrated under a green canopy in Pala around 1910 or 1911. An organ is present near the carpet the priest celebrates on. A man who can be visually discerned as the priest's server is not present in the photo, the suited man to the priest's left may be the server for the Mass. The priest may be a Franciscan, as the Franciscans were in charge of Mission San Antonio de Pala and the surrounding chapels up until the 1940s. However, the priest lacks the beard typical of a Franciscan friar. 

The reason for the Mass being celebrated out in the open is unknown to us. The Mission church was probably still intact at the time this photo was taken, so it could be from a nearby village, there could have been a need for temporary repair, or there could be some kind of special event. The Luiseño Indians in the photo have accustomed themselves to the Mass attire typical to the American Southwest, with calico dresses and suits, as well as hats for women's head coverings rather than mantillas.