Mookoo's Home (木咕子的家)

2017年6月22日星期四

A Short Visit to Hong Kong

#2017-0622

Tour Dates: June 19 - 21, 2017 (Monday to Wednesday)

Destination: Hong Kong Island (mostly, Chung Wan, or Central in English)

Notes:

1. Jean hadn't really visited Hong Kong until this 3-day trip. She had repeatedly told me that she would like to go and see the college where Antony has been studying as a seminary student. Now it was high time that we paid such a visit, as he will soon complete his studies there at Ming Hua by the end of June.

2. During our visit there, Jean and I stayed at Mini Hotel Central (香港中環迷你酒店) for the two nights. And, through the window of our hotel room, which was very small, we could clearly see the Bishop's House (會督府／主教府). See below: Part 2: 會督府 (雨景).

3. With our son as our tour guide, we were able to visit several impressive places. In addition to the campus of Ming Hua, we took the popular tour bus for sightseeing in Central and the nearby areas. We also took a cable car up the mountain called Victoria Peak (or 太平山 in Mandarin). See below: Part 1: 太平山 (鳥瞰).

Part 1: 太平山（鳥瞰）

Part 2: 會督府（雨景）

2017年6月4日星期日

Jazz Eucharist on Pentecost Sunday, 2017

#2017-0604

For the previous celebrations of the Day of Pentecost at my church, you may click and see:

2016 -- 爵士風聖餐禮拜 (Pentecost Jazz Eucharist)
2015 -- 照片轉分享： Kelvin's Confirmation
2014 -- (No post about Pentecost Sunday!)
2013 -- 聖洗禮：Holy Baptism on the Day of Pentecost
2012 -- (No post about Pentecost Sunday! But the Rev. Dr. Peyton Craighill Visited St. James' on the 1st Sunday after Pentecost.)
2011 -- The Day of Pentecost and 第一次搭阿公的車郊遊（埔里台光香草園）

We've just had another wonderful celebration of Pentecost Sunday: Just as we did last year, we used a lot of Jazz music during Holy Eucharist to celebrate the Pentecost Sunday this year. And we did something new: We had an English-and-Chinese combined service in which the Gospel (John 20:19-23) was read in many different languages, simultaneously.

For example, Rev. Lily Chang read it in Mandarin Chinese; Tina Pan, Jean Huang, and Diana Wang in Taiwanese; Jerry Liang, that's me, in Hakka; Chris Lew in Cantonese; Atsushi Yoshida in Japanese; Jooyean Song in Korean; Jeff Liu and Annie Huang in French; Christoph Wu and Hans Geiger in German; David Puckett and Claire Wang in Spainish; Patrick Carlson in Afrikaans; Carmen Carlson in Xhosa; Argin Hsu in English. ... Well, the same Gospel was read this morning at St. James' in at least a dozen of languages! If Simon Cuschieri, who is from Malta, had come this morning, he might have read in Italian; and his partner Rose could have read in Tagalog or the like!

I had never heard anybody speak Xhosa until this very day. You know, I was so curious about the Xhosa language that I tried to find it out on the Wikipedia website. Dear readers! Are you interested in this language, too?

Photos below are originally shared on Facebook
or LINE by members of the congregation,
whose names are under each photo.