Gerard Rummery Day!

I want my cactus to bloom like this!













One of the hundreds of rodent traps around the outside of the Motherhouse. Cats come and check them almost hourly to see if dinner is served.





The most hated sculpture at the Mother House. This sculpure was donated by a school in Switzerland that closed. Every brother I've talked to tells me they wish it had stayed in Switzerland.

The glass behind the statue is actually a glass hallway between two courtyards. The court yard I was in was in the shade. The one on the othe side of the hallway wasn't. Hence the back light.
I'm not sure how many court yards this place has. I can count 5 off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are more. Almost everywhere you turn there's another court yard. Some have scupltures and others don't.

Today Gerard Rummery gave the presentations. He is a Austrailian Brother and one of those historians who makes you feel like you're listening to a wonderful story when he talks about history. His morning topic was: John Baptist de La Salle: Biography in the Cultural, Ecclesial, Educational and Political Context of 17th and 18th Century France and Europe. In the afternoon his topic was: The Brothers of the Christian Schools 1680-2007. It was fascinating and really explained our mission and why the Brothers do things the way they do. It's incredible to think that the mission we follow today is basically unchanged from the original mission of the brothers back in the late 1600's.

Tomorrow we have Br. Tim Coldwell speaking on Lasallian spirituality and Br. Antonio Botana speaking on Lasallian association. I haven't read any of Br. Tim's work, but I have read some of Br. Antonio's work.

I promise to have actual pictures of de La Salle tomorrow. I tried to take them tonight, but the Brothers were in the church praying. I don't think they would have been overly thrilled if I had marched up to the front of the church to snap a picture of the Founder during their interior prayer.

St. Benilde is also there as are a number of other Saints. I think James Miller might be there too. Or at least there is something that has to do with James Miller in the Church. I'll look.