remembering Holy Week 2007 - part 3

And then Holy Saturday arrived. just like that. the countdown timer didn't even make it to "1 day more". cos the days just flew by.

Rite of Ephphetha in the morning. and still, i saw the Elect's frowns, the blank looks, the harrowed gazes as they wonder how they will make it through to the evening.

but in their midst there were also the beaming faces, those radiant with hope... and they went through the rite as ONE.

we washed the toilets after the Elect left. that's always a time of laughter and joy. we washed the Ladies first and then the Gents. Angela and Lakshmi were getting too obsessed with it. they started polishing the metal door under the sink, a make-shift panel of doors to lock the pails and cleaning equipment in. then they started cleaning the mirrors as well. if that wasn't enough, they almost decided to go wash the canteen toilets too! jojo stopped them. haha.

the Gents had their fair share of weirdos too. for the record, yes, the Gents still has a smell. Mr C was going crazy scrubbing all the toilet bowls. yucks. if that wasn't enough, he too got into the spirit of the moment and decided to scrub urinals too. yucks. after hosing the soap down, the water collected in the urinal started filling up and threatened to spill over. YUCKS!!!! i was literally watching it with horror. cos we had already washed the floors CLEAN.

THEN, Fr Beng came in and saw 4 of us gaping at the urinal. he says, no, not like dis, i show you how to do! must put your hand in and unclog it!

trix and i screamed.
Mr C said, no, no, Father, let us do it. you don't do.
Davin said, i'm never going to take communion from you again.

hahaha.... it's actually really nice to be able to joke with your priests like that. feels like family.

amazingly, we had time and appetite for lunch. and a good one too at Jalan Leban. there was hardly anything to do by the time we left for lunch. of course, Davin had to nag at us the whole time... haha, gosh, i'm so going to miss him. he's like my big brother. the one who'll constantly nag me and whom i'll constantly rebel against. but it was really good and heartening to watch him rise above his own Lent. his actually started first... i knew it before he told me... and when he did, i started struggling with my own emotions.

over his nagging and lunch, we talked about how it didn't rain the day before. haha. Mr C says the rain moved on to a more sinful parish.

and then it rained. *BIG MOUTH!!!*

so we headed back to Church after lunch and somehow, from having struck off all the things on our BIG TASK LIST, there suddenly sprung up the 1001 little things we had to take care of at the last minute.

Mayhem descended.

and i was in such joyful anticipation of the evening.

Morning went and Evening came... Easter Vigil, 7 April 2007.