Future Priests of the Third Millennium

A little insight into the life of seminarians from various dioceses preparing for ministry as Roman Catholic priests, including daily activities, personal interests, special events, the spiritual life, news from the seminary, and almost whatever comes to our minds!



Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Theology 2 in Venezuela #8

(By Jonathan Sorensen)

Today we went on a boat tour of the Caroni and Orinoco rivers. Since it was a lump-sum fee, Father Greg invited many of the mass servers (monaguillos, in Spanish) along. For about an hour and a half, we toured the rivers, viewing the many waterfalls--up close!--as well as the confluence of the two rivers. Interestingly, one river is dark while the other is a light tan. Where the two rivers meet, there is a sharp line in the water that continues for several miles until the water from both rivers finally mixes. Check out Google maps:
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=es&geocode=&q=san+felix,+venezuela&sll=8
.33414,-62.717857&sspn=0.129085,0.2314&ie=UTF8&ll=8.346369,-62.669449&spn=0.
129081,0.2314&amp;amp;t=k&z=12&om=1
>


The man who owns the boat took out a very large fish while he was out, something that any angler in the United States would be proud to catch, a mochoroca, I think.

We returned to the rectory for a lunch of native cuisine, fried chicken and french fries. Some made a run into town to withdraw money from the ATM and check out the pirated DVD's for sale. I think some of those movies weren't even in theatres when we left the States!

In the afternoon, we had a discussion about Venezuelan politics and the difficulties of running a mission parish amidst high inflation with the parish administrator, Miguel.

Finally, we had dinner and a little visit with Father Greg about missiology.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.