Priests Retreat
in Sihanoukville

3-8 June 2013
Monday
 • Tuesday
  • Wednesday
   • Thursday
    •  Friday
     • Saturday

The retreat officially ended this morning with a mass at 7:00 AM followed by a breakfast before everyone got on the road about 8:30 AM. Because I had to take the bus and also to arrive in time for some afternoon meetings, I caught a bus at 7:00 AM and so missed the final activities.
Saturday
Youth center
One of the latest additions to the church compound is the open-air youth center pavilion located near the front of the church.
 
Recycling bins
Another addition to the compound are many sets of these rubbish bins. The bin on the left is for food scraps saved for the pigs; the middle one is for recyclable metals and plastics; and the one on the right is for trash that must be thrown out.
 
Another music group
When the Dominican Sisters were not able to assist with the music at the retreat prayers and liturgies, various groupings of the priests got together to provide music.
 
Assisting Bishop Emile
Bishop Emile, one of the retired bishops of the Phnom Penh Vicariate, has had medical problems this year and is a little unsteady on the steps. Here one of the priests offers some assistance.
 
Cooking rice
This is a cook shed behind the dining room. Cooking rice for 45+ people requires a big fire and lots of rice, and the kitchen ladies prefer doing it the old fashion way, with a wood fire and huge rice boiler.
 
Washing a bus
This morning while I waited for the Capitol Tours bus, young boys from the area were washing some of the other buses before their first trips of the day.

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