Introibo- with Flowers

  Things have been very busy this month of June.  While the Vatican is threatening and traditionalists are conjecturing, a diocesan Solemn High Mass is being celebrated for the first time in maybe  fifty , maybe a hundred years (who remembers just how long ago?) in this historic rural church.  No time to wax poetic, here are the pictures.  The weather here in northern California has been strangely warm and humid these past two weeks.  I love the sun, and I love yellow!  I made these summer altar arrangements with yellow lilies, sun flowers, weigela greens and blossoms- that were so gorgeous in the garden, I just couldn't resist!      Ad Dei Majorem Gloriam!

Altar flowers for the feast of Corpus Christi and arrangements made for the ordination anniversary reception for a wonderful priest, who has opened his parish to a community of traditional Catholics and to the Latin Mass.  Deo gratias! Gold and red roses, gold and red alstroemeria, white carnations and centranthus, golden scotch broom, magnolia and camellia greens.   For the side altars I had to improvise with some garden roses as I ran short of flowers!  There just happened to be four of these beautiful, butter yellow tea roses! For the ordination anniversary reception, I made twenty arrangements of hebe greens, lavender, rosemary, and purple rhododendrons for the tables. "Greening in" first works splendidly for floppy, unruly flowers like old fashioned roses and rhododendrons. Almost ready for transport! I will post photos of the altar when we celebrate the external Solemnity of Corpus Christi this Sunday.  As in Toledo, Spain, rosemary and rose petals will be...