Lettergesh

This morning our cottage woke up and went to mass at 11:00am at the local church across the street. While it was a Catholic mass, it was nothing like I am used to. One main difference is that there is no singing at all. Church begins when a bell chimes and everyone stands up while the priest and altar servers walk down the main isle. The lector was a young girl and she read the first reading and then went right into the response (which I am used to singing). And without a moment’s pause, she went right into the second reading. The priest then read the gospel and gave his sermon. After that communion was served and instead of an orderly line being formed as row by row stand up and exit the pew, it is basically a free for all and people get up whenever they want to form the line for communion. After communion the priest said a final few words and then mass was over. Mass was only thirty minutes long, but it was such a unique experience and I’m glad that I got to experience it. 

After mass a group of us went on a walk to Lettergesh Beach. It started out as a walk with no purpose and we just kept walking. We went to a local cemetery and saw an abandoned house behind it. There was also an amazing view of the beach. We kept walking and eventually ended up in Lettergesh and passed the local school, which has an amazing view of the ocean and then walked down to the beach. Once we were on the beach we climbed up a grassy hill on the beach and were able to look out over the ocean and the coastline. We also climbed onto a rocky mound which was out in the water. By the time we were heading back the tide had come in and we had to walk through the water which was very cold! We then walked back home which took about an hour (this time we were not stopping to take pictures so it went much faster). When we returned to Tully Cross, we stopped in Brian Coynes’ shop and purchased candy bars and picked up what our cottage needs to make a fire.