Visiting With Our Priest Friends
We know a lot of good priests.
I know that some people are not so lucky but it has always been a blessing to try and connect with some our priest friends when we come home to Windsor.
Terry and I got to enjoy a lovely catch up with Fr. Gary and Fr. Bob at Harbour House for lunch one day. It was such a nice day that I/we enjoyed sitting outside and watching a swan family swimming by while we were eating fresh fish and chips!
Fr. Gary was the priest who officiated at our wedding and Fr. Bob was connected to me when I was a teenager in Youth Corps at St. Anne’s with my besties back in the day. Last year he actually lent me an album that my friend, Rose, gave him when he left her parish and this year we had so much fun going down memory lane on our girlfriend weekend away while looking at those photos.
One day we decided to find a new breakfast place so Terry and I took ourselves off to the Harvest Table in downtown Windsor.
It had an old fashioned vibe which I like (beside every table there were upright pitchforks on which to hang your coat) and the bread for the toast was freshly made a few minutes before it came to our booth. Yum. The eggs were good and so was the coffee.
Then we drove around Walkerville area and we thought to try calling our friend, Fr. Tom Talentino, who lives in a retirement residence nearby. He used to the priest at Edmonton’s Marian Centre but now lives in Windsor!
We did manage to get ahold of him and ended up picking him up and taking him to a nearby coffee shop for a nice chat, coffee(for him) and blueberry ice teas for us.
85 and he still looks great!
We also took a wonderful 2 and a half hour day trip to Grand Bend to visit with our friend, Fr. John Comiskey.
I have known John since I was in high school and used to go to London with my besties to visit with the seminarians sometimes. He also ended up being my parents’ parish priest when my mum was the church secretary!
We were able to finish our audiobook “Dear Edward” on our journey and I liked the beginning and ending more than the middle part. Neat story though. Check it out!
There was beautiful scenery on the way to and from our visit and it was fun to arrive at the gated, cottage community where he lives. SO pretty.
What a great visit! John invited us for lunch but first we had the pleasure of attending mass in his home chapel.
Then we had choices of meats, cheeses , breads. and salads with which to make our lunches and I had a smoked meat sandwich with my favourite Summer Fresh pasta salad. I also was treated to a lovely glass of red wine.
We really enjoyed our conversations and stayed there until about 3:30 p.m. when it was time to head back to Windsor for a dinner invite over at our dear friends’ home with Terry’s best friend, Pete, and wife, Denise.
God bless these 4 wonderful priests and dear friends.