February 9, 2003

Jesus heals Peter’s mother-in-law.

This morning we worshiped at the Latin (Roman Catholic) Church of Visitation, Marthame leading worship with Fr. Aktham and Fr. Firas. The gospel passage was that of Christ's healing of Peter's mother-in-law. Fr. Aktham has been using the gospel passages as an opportunity to be creative with the liturgy, as we saw last week. Today, he invited older people in the congregation forward for a sacramental anointing with oil.

An American volunteer admiring the Latin School’s English Club work.

Following church, we had lunch with some friends from the University, including the mother of one teacher who has been very active in the last two weeks visiting the area and volunteering her time, including at the Latin School. We also stopped by the school to look at the English Club, which is becoming a display room for creative English projects by the students. We are now officially on vacation, which is a nice place to be. We'll take advantage of the opportunity to get down to Ramallah, but that waits for tomorrow.