PRAISE YOU FATHER--- OCTOBER 2009

-------------------------"PRAISE YOU FATHER "LITURGICAL DANCE -----------

Here I am giving last minute instruction to the girls: The Prayer Dances goes Like this------------

--PRAISE YOU FATHER

-BLESS YOU JESUS

-HOLY SPIRIT THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE

-BEING HERE------------NOW!

Vicensia (your far left) is a Nursing Student who finishes her training in May of 2010. She is beautiful inside and out, and I am delighted to have spent so much time with her working on the Nurses first published magazine entitled "My Opinion" Latter I will enclose some of the articles and poetry submitted by the students. Hedwig, in the center is a University Graduate and teaches English and English Literature to a Secondary School in Kisoso, though she is anxious and ready to move on to a brighter future in Europe or the USA. Edwinah (your far right) is in her second year of Nursing and has shown a maturity and resilience unseen in most 19 year old women. She has lost both her parents to HIV-AIDS , is maybe the most graceful dancer around (when you see some major hip swinging in future blogs of local dancing--it will be Edwinah who will catch your attention.) and she is one of my adopted daughters.

This is the third year this beautiful liturgical dance was performed by 3 lovely young Ugandan women at St. Francis Hospital Chapel-Mutolere., on the Feast of St. Francis .How beautiful they were, and how honored I felt to teach them this dance that I first learned 30+ years ago and performed innumerable times in AZ. , PA, and, of course, AR., specifically at the Heartsong Retreats for those infected and affected with HIV-AIDS. This will be the last October I will be here, but perhaps the tradition will go on without me. --Praising God thru movement never seems to go out of style.

----------PRAISE YOU FATHER

---------------BLESS YOU JESUS!

----- HOLY SPIRIT--THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE--BEING HERE!