Mozart and Barcelona

Tomorrow I will have some guests over for roast lamb. Then on Friday, the Cathedral is doing the Mozart Requiem.

A week from today, Sharif and I will fly to Barcelona to look around for Gaudi buildings

and visit Monserrat inu the Catalan coastal range.

There is an Abbey there with a famous Black Madonna

This is where St. Ignatius Loyola renounced violence, and laid down his weapons before La Moreneta. And one tradition holds that the Holy Grail is hidden there, too.

After that, I intend to go to Madrid