Good Morning Caminoheads!
I hope your Movie Monday went well! Things were popping over here at the PHIL’S CAMINO headquarters! Lots of details to be tended to as we approach our LA Premiere. It is going to be a really fun evening, with our special guests, Phil and Rebecca! It will be so nice for so many other team members to meet them: our composer, Laura Karpman, along with dan Bern and Eric Kufs who wrote the opening and closing song, Come and Walk, Walk with Me, along with others. And of course, wherever Phil and Rebecca are, you know our dear Carol is not far behind, so she will be joining us as well! Another special guest will be Esther Hobbs, making her way down from Monterrey, CA for the weekend. Then of course, there are all the SoCal pilgrims who want to meet the man himself who will be attending, and also some of my choir members — the men, anyway since our LA Opening falls on the same weekend as our Women’s Retreat…well, the list goes on!
We also have some more screening dates and times for you:
AUGUST:
Rhode Island Film Festival
Middlebury New Filmmaker Film Festival
SEPTEMBER:
Port Townsend Film Festival
Jhilava Film Festival (the Czech Republic)
I will leave you with my latest Tom Bomb. Fr. Tom is one of the spiritual advisors of PHIL’S CAMINO, and is the official padre of the team. He is an incredible mix of fun and wisdom, with a dash of mischief thrown in. I left him a message last week asking him to say a prayer for me as I was getting overwhelmed with all the things I have to do, and losing faith in myself that I could do them all. Here is what he sent me. Not only am I inspired by his words, I am so very blessed to call him friend.
Annie, Dorothy Day claimed she awoke each morning with 30 hours of work to do, and only 24 hours to do it. So, she began each day by ONE HOUR of silence in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Voilà! She claims Jesus always multiplies whatever we offer FIRST to him. And Dorothy swore that he always have her more than ample time to accomplish the work. The other insight she got from her Holy Hour was the realization that the work she was doing was really God’s work. And God always gives us the resources necessary to accomplish HIS work.
I’m off to not quite an hour of silence, but perhaps a Holy Half Hour.
Blessings and love, to ALL us Caminoheads!
Annie O Neil
Director/Producer: Phil’s Camino www.philscamino.com
Co-producer and Pilgrim: Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago www.caminodocumentary.org
Author: Everyday Camino with Annie www.everydaycaminowithannie.com
310-403-4228