Nicaragua February 15 night

Imagine this.  After seeing one hundred and twenty patients today, the staff

and patients of Tim´s Clinic led the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe (in a big 

wooden procession stand) on the shoulders of the clinic doctors and Charlie

through the streets of Esteli to the parish Church.  This is followed by Holy Mass

and then a night time procession back to the clinic.  Along the way people join in

to the procession and others look out from their windows and doors, many with 

tears in their eyes.  The tears especially in the eyes of the older ones who may

remember one day when they were very young watching such processions.   

All along the way people are singing Nicaraguan folk songs to Mary the Virgin

of Guadalupe.  Fifty people or more join the procession as it crawls through the

 streets.  We end with clapping and singing at the clinic.