Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and a Jolly Junkanoo to you all!
Junkanoo is a uniquely Bahamian celebration with bands and dancers and floats and the parade goes for hours! Literally, it starts at midnight on New Years and goes well into the morning hours. To say the costumes and bands are dressed to the max is an understatement - incredible stuff.
Just as an example - here's a pic of just one Junkanoo dancer - imagine a couple hundred - and that would just be one of many, many bands marching in the parade.
Christmas here was wonderful. We had our usual full complement of Sunday liturgies and with Christmas being on a Sunday this year it actually made things simpler. Here is a pic of our altar at St. John Chrysostom, fully decorated for Christmas!
New Years will be a lot busier than Christmas. We will have our 6PM service at the AUTEC Base, then a midnight Mass at St. John Chrysostom in Fresh Creek, then we'll have our regular Sunday liturgies beginning with the 830AM for those at St. John who couldn't make midnight, then the 1115 in Cargill and the 4PM up north in Mastic Point. Its the Midnight Mass followed by the 830 that'll be the killer.
Midnight on New Years here is called Watch Night Service. Its a British thing where the people want to be in Church to pray in the New Year. It will start at 11 with carols and the liturgy starting at 1130 and running through midnight.
All in all we continue to grow the Kingdom of God here on Andros and we pray 2012 will be even more fruitful than 2011. May God bless you all as well
Till next time
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