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Sunday, July 10, 2022

DINNER AT BLUFFTON RECTORY SUNDAY NIGHT

 Thank you to Msgr. Ron Celinni for inviting me to St. Gregory the Great Church rectory in Bluffton for a fabulous meal with several other priests of his area and Hilton Head. The rectory’s backyard has a marsh view and it was high tide when I took the photos.







13 comments:

rcg said...

Nice! Great view. The midges are out, I understand. I hope the breeze pushed them away. Beautiful setting.

TJM said...

Excellent! Nice altar!

Fr. Michael J. Kavanaugh said...

I was good friends with Greg West, the founding pastor who built the new St. Gregory church and that rectory on Pinckney Colony Road. Was there many times.

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

Beautiful rectory/property and Mgrs. Cellini a great host. Odd, though, he’s a year older than I and still going in a parish of 4,800, three parochial vicars, 12 weekend Masses in a variety of locations. Charleston’s Catholic community seems to eclipse our own in terms of transplants and retirement communities.

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

If GA would let us develop our barrier island starting below Tybee, we would be the new Beaufort and Jaspe County region exploding with growth. Even Hardeeville is experiencing it on US 278 with Margaritaville and other residential developments catering to retirees.

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

Celinni is calling Hardeville a suburb of Pooler!

Fr. Michael J. Kavanaugh said...

Development of our barrier islands is a bad, very bad, idea.

First, we don't need to be like Beaufort which is not a barrier island area, but and interior inland with Pritchards, Fripp, Hunting, and St. Helena Islands between it and the Atlantic.

Second, Jasper County has no buildable islands, other than a few marsh hammocks that would not hold a good-sized tent, let alone a housing development.

Third, the Georgia Golden Isles are unique in terms of their geography and their biological diversity. Fully one-third, almost half a million acres, of the remaining salt marshes on the East Coast are in Georgia. From the Georgia Conservancy, "They are nursery areas for commercially important species of fish and shellfish, including shrimp, blue crab, snapper, grouper and other finfish and shellfish. Recreation and tourism are also a key part of Georgia’s coastal economy, valued at more than $2 billion annually. And they are critical to the state’s biodiversity and wildlife, including several endangered and threatened species that are commonly found in Georgia’s salt marshes."

In 2015 the Georgia legislature acted to protect the marshes, and rightly so. You can't build within 25 feet of a marsh. The legislators who developed these regulations are overwhelmingly Republicans who recognized the critical importance of the islands and marshes on our coast.

Fourth, they're not called "barrier" islands for nothing. They offer protection from hurricanes. Louisiana is dealing now with the drastic loss of barrier lowlands in the delta of the Mississippi River. "The Mississippi River Delta and coastal Louisiana are disappearing at an astonishing rate: a football field of wetlands vanishes into open water every 100 minutes."

Fifth, explosive growth near the coast is happening, as the article I sent you about the plans by Heartwood Development to add 10,000 (ten thousand) homes to Richmond Hill - you remember that place, don't you> - in the next 20 to 25 years mentioned.

TJM said...

Fr K,

Now explain to me how Obama's home on the sea in Martha's Vineyard is not in violation of the Global Warming Religion?

TJM said...

Fr K,

Obama famously said “there is only so big a house you can have.” Yet he has 3 mansions, two on the sea. Can you spell “hypocrite?”

TJM said...

Fr K,

The guy you voted for just threatened to strip hospitals of their Medicare status if a state prohibits abortion, but has the science changed such that a 65 year old birthing person (your Party’s new crusade) can become pregnant? This is strange coming from a guy who wanted to overturn Roe in 1992 via a Constitutional Amendment. Do you get embarrassed, at all?

Fr. Michael J. Kavanaugh said...

TJM asks, "Do you get embarrassed, at all?"

Only for you, TJM, only for you.

rcg said...

Back to the post: how socially and intellectually stimulating are these gatherings? Do you discuss any of your views on the Liturgy and do they share their views with you? If it wouldn’t make enemies it might be interesting.

TJM said...

I am embarrassed by bishops and priests who vote for, as Cadinal Burke called it, “The Party of Death.”