I used to swing a mean censer in my days. We don't use incense a often in the Catholic Church as we used to, but we still usit it frequently during Holy week. Our new priest (Irish - County Cork) gets constricted in the throat from incense and lilies - so we held back a bit this week. Still, we had lots of smells and bells this week, and it was wonderful. We hired a new music director, and the music was terrific, too. First time in twenty years that I've been really proud to be part of a choir.

We gave special emphasis to fire safety training when we practiced with the altar servers this year. We had a couple of fires last year, and the one censer swinger (thurifer) kept brushing the hot censer against his clothing. He did much better this year.

-Joe-