The community of São Jorge {St. George} got very excited the other day. The electricity has arrived for the first time in their community. So now they have lights and electric fans in the local church and so they decided to celebrate with a celebration of Mass, after dark. They also took the opportunity to redecorate and paint the church. So I headed out with one of the sisters, and the parish secretary to lead the celebration. The beauty of a night Mass is that more of the men can come, since they are not out working, but the down side is we have to drive home in the dark on the bad roads {about and hour and a half}.
As always the Mass was followed by food and drinks and in this case also a dance. The community also bought a new portable sound system and this was rigged up after Mass in the dance floor across the road. Also after Mass I took a good look at the electricity pole outside the church and it seems to me, that the connection going into the church wasn't exactly the most "LEGAL" of connections!!
A newly painted {luminous green} church.
Arriving for Mass.
The Celebrant.
Some smiling faces.
A bigger crowd than normal.
