Kilts

This weekend is the annual Eucharistic Congress held by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte.  As campus minister for WCU, I will be in attendance Friday and Saturday manning our Campus Ministry Fundraising table in the vendor area of the event.  We will be selling Catholic tshirts and other goodies, and also items in the St. Ninian's Day papal tartan, which I designed for Pope Benedict XVI on behalf of the Scottish Catholic bishops for his visit to Scotland on Sept. 16, 2010. To help expand that fundraising effort, I will donate $75 of the purchase price of any kilt in the St. Ninian tartan ordered over my web site this Friday, Saturday or Sunday (Sept. 21-23) to Campus Ministry in the Diocese of Charlotte.  So if you were thinking about getting a kilt in this tartan, now's the time!  You can order your kilt knowing that part of your money will be going to a great cause. Of course, a percentage of the proceeds for all items sold in the St. Ninian tartan does go back to the

Yesterday, Sept. 13, there was a memorial held for astronaut Neil Armstrong, who died last month. The memorial was held at the Washington National Cathedral. You can download an event program here: http://www.nationalcathedral.org/pdfs/Armstrong20120913.pdf At the start of the service, the family was processed in behind a kilted piper. Angus Sutherland, age 22, originally of Kelso (but now living in DC) was asked by the Scottish Government to pipe for the family. They wanted him wearing the Armstrong tartan, and I am happy to report that the Scottish Tartans Authority was able to connect the Scottish Embassy there with myself and I was able to provide a kilt to the piper in time for the service. He is wearing a four-yard box pleated kilt in the Armstrong modern tartan. The piper played "Mist Covered Mountains." For those interested, there is a video of the entire service on the National Cathedral's web site. If you are looking for the piper, he's at the beginning, ab