Sometimes it’s hard to live a joyful, Catholic life in an un-Catholic world. That’s when you reach out and bring Catholic Culture to your own little world!
And that’s what we did years ago when we had our first Traditional Family Weekend. Yes, it’s been almost twenty years, we have had our bumps and made our mistakes but we have seen very good fruit come from these weekends. Couples have met, families have interacted, good times have been had, our souls have been nourished.
This year, the weather was perfect. In Kansas, it is usually well into the 90’s and even 100’s. But this year, there was a chance of rain and an unusual cooler weather mass hung out for the weekend. So the outdoor games were much more comfortable with the temperatures in the 80’s.
Friday night we had games and live music, coffee, food and visiting. Saturday we had the conferences by Father Elijah Mundattuchundayil, FSSP, Games and the Talent Show. Sunday was a breakfast sponsored by our Traditional Knights of Columbus (with all proceeds going to an ultrasound machine to be used for Pro-Life purposes) and then sports in the park.
We had friends of Father VanderPutten in Nigeria come for the weekend. One traveled from Minnesota and the other from Maryland!
I have the videos of the Talent Show Acts on my Finer Femininity Channel. Here is the link if you would like to view them….
A few shots from the Talent Show… Link is here for the Acts.
Below is the gallery…
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- Hannah and Ben cover tables… as Hannah poses..haha
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- Tony works at getting Fr. Walker’s picture up (The weekend is dedicated to him).
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- Rosie works on Our Lady’s table.
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- Dana is our drink lady. She and Gemma discuss logistics.
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- Vin and his boys handle the popcorn machine. The kids love it!
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- Rosie, Gemma and Nate work on hanging the decorations.
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- Dana and Hannah.
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- Fresh flowers from our garden for the tables.
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- Our sound guy, Nick, with his assistant, Ryan.
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- Gemma decorates the “coffee nook”.
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- Grandsons and Angelo visit.
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- Sound is very important!
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- So is coffee!
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- Hannah hangs while James criticizes…haha.
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- Rosie, Hannah, Nate.
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- The boys decorate above the stage.
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- Practice time!
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- Popcorn time!
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- Yummy savory and sweet cheese balls that Rosie made for the Weekend.
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- Savory cheese ball.
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- Sweet cheese ball (chocolate chips on the cheese ball) with graham crackers.
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- Food table will be packed with finger foods!
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- Father and Vin
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- Tony takes over the popcorn
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- Gin is telling Devin what she thinks!
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- Father Lind and Julie
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- Father Eichman with the guys
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- Good friends!
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- Cute boys!
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- Rosary Procession Friday evening.
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- Live music for Friday night.
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- Conferences
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- The conferences were on Friendship and Prayer.
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- Rosary Saturday afternoon.
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- Bubbles!
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- Pantaleon & Emineke
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- Sports in the park.
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- Good times, memories made once again.
I didn’t see you share a flyer of when this event was going to be…..
I didnt think I missed it,….
You’ve been busy lots of memories…..
It came up on me so fast! I meant to share it…