Thursday After Ash Wednesday

"Lost Home on Perelli Drive #1" by James W. Bailey

Evil Digital Photography

This post will introduce a project series of Lenten Season photographs taken inside one home destroyed by Katrina on Perelli Drive in East New Orleans. I will be posting one image each day through Easter Sunday. On Easter Sunday all of the posts that are part of this project will be transferred to a separate project blog. The Catholic family that lived in this home is fifth generation New Orleanian. The final post for this project will be a letter from a member of the family that expresses her thoughts and feelings about having lost her childhood home.

I hope that you will enjoy this project. I also ask that you please keep the people in New Orleans in your thoughts and prayers.

Readings for Mass

First Reading: Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6

Gospel: Luke 9:22-25

From Ash Wednesday by James W. Bailey

Living for the moment you become but for a moment alive...This fleeting instance of existence becomes the eternity of your soul...To live forever requires but a second of conciousness...The more conciousness you acquire...the more dead you become to your life of death....If you are going to live forever...then you will have to think yourself into immortality...And once you are there...all of your thoughts of life...will cease to matter.