5 October 2002
LCDS Anniversary
It took me all day to fly from Maryknoll, NY to Louisville. I left White Plains, NY at 9:00 AM and didn't get to Louisville until 4:00 PM. I used the two hours to Chicago to outline the notes for the talk I gave in the evening, and during the layover in Chicago, I turned them into a Power Point presentation. Felt like a real jet setter!
Arriving in Louisville, my brother and his wife met me with a car, and I went straight to St. Vincent de Paul Church for the mass with the archbishop celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Louisville Catholic Deaf Society. It was good to see old friends from the deaf community from various cities. Then we went to the Holiday Inn Downtown for a dinner, and there I gave a talk reflecting on the good leadership of the deaf community in the past and challenging them in the future to look more toward their deaf brothers and sisters around the world, especially in the undeveloped world.
This photo shows Fr. Randy Hubbard, the current chaplain for LCDS, delivering the blessing at the beginning of the banquet.
6-10 October 2002
Sunday-Thursday
On Sunday I visited a family, old friends from St. Lawrence Parish, and then gathered with the Louisville-area brothers and sisters and their families at the family household in Pewee Valley.
During the next few days I went shopping for some computer hardware we need in Cambodia, made lots of phone calls on other Maryknoll business, had mass for the Carmelite Sisters at the monastery where my cousin is a member, visited Archbishop Kelly at his office, had lunch with one of the sign language interpreters, and generally just stayed at home with my mother. In this picture she is sorting different colors of rosary beads before delivering them to various groups who make rosaries.
12-13 October 2002
Hong Kong
The flight from Louisville to Hong Kong was uneventful. I left Louisville at 9:00 AM on Thursday and arrived in Hong Kong at 5:00 PM on Friday. Saturday I went to my old computer haunts, the best places in the world for buying computer hardware of any kind, and got a network connector for the laptop to bypass the broken modem. Then after I got hooked up to the Maryknoll network at our house in Hong Kong, I tried catching up with e-mail and updating the web page. Sunday I went to the mass of the Catholic deaf group, surprising them since they didn't know I was coming. That was a really enjoyable visit with some really wonderful people. I told them a little about deaf work in Cambodia (see photo above) and they invited me to return to Hong Kong at the end of November for the 25th anniversary of the deaf group. I will see if that will be possible.