Bells

The bells at the Roman Catholic church across the way started at 6AM this morning, and continued for an unusually long time. Apparently this congregation really takes time to enjoy their Easter morning Mass.

Shortly following that, the local public radio station played portions of the Messiah by Handel, a lovely touch since it is usually only played around Christmas. If you read the words to the whole work that is a strange choice. Except for the initial sections, most of the work talks of events around the Messiah's death and subsequent resurrection. But we rarely hear this work played at Easter, the very moment of the the fulfillment of God's promise for the forgiveness of man's sins. It was good to hear the section of the Messiah talking about Christ rising from the dead on the heels of those very enthusiastic bells.

This morning we finally found some food that our oldest cat would eat, after nearly a week of being unable to get anything into her. We made the hydration schedule more frequent, but that's not enough. We are really just forestalling the  inevitable at this point, but we want to keep her feeling better as long as we can. It was fitting that this was Easter morning.