24 de Mayo - Dia de Maria Auxiliadora

Today is the feast of Our Lady, Help of Christians.

Ave Maria prayer (German)
Gegrüßet seist du Maria, voll der Gnade, der Herr ist mit dir. Du bist gebenedeit unter den Frauen und gebenedeit ist die Frucht deines Leibes, Jesus. Heilige Maria, Mutter Gottes, bitte für uns Sünder jetzt und in der Stunde unseres Todes. Amen.

A group of Latin American ladies (mostly Mexicans) gather every Thursday morning to pray the Rosary. Sometimes on Thursday mornings Fabi and I go to a German playgroup, but since today was "May 24th", we went to pray.

Afterwards, we joined a group of ladies that had been invited to a small town nearby, to an Indian lady´s house...to pray another Rosary! I met Rani, who turned out to be a (Catholic) lady from Kerala, married to a German. It was the anniversary of her father´s death and she had gathered some friends in her house to join her for prayers. There I met a Catholic priest -- also from Kerala.

That´s how we ended up praying two Rosaries today (one in Spanish and one in German) and also how we happened to have idlis for a late morning snack. Of course that by the time the second prayer has taking place, Fabi was a lot more interested in playing in the garden.

After we came back to Erlangen, Fabi and I stayed in the city center, had lunch, did some shopping and came back home for a few minutes to freshen up. Then we headed out to the playground to celebrate with one (of two of) his friends who had his 1st birthday today. (Happy Birthday to Manuel and Nicolas! See you next Tuesday at your party!)

And that´s how Fabi spend the day when he turned 26 months old!