Episcopal Ordination of Coadjutor Archbishop William Goh

Let me start by apologising if I get his 'title' wrong. I don't mean any disrespect but I hope I've got it right by saying we attended the Episcopal Ordination of Coadjutor Archbishop William Goh on 22 February 2013,

This was taken with His Grace after the Mass

(photo taken by my good friend's son)

It was only by God's grace that both Mike and I managed to attend it. Not because we had no intention of going (I had applied for leave from work in advance, in anticipation of attending the event even before the tickets were out) but because early that week (the ordination had been on a Friday), Mike had suffered a very painful foot injury and my dear hubby had been bed-ridden (moaning and groaning I may add) for a couple of days with a swollen foot. If he did walk, it was at snails' pace and with much pain. Me? I had felt some funny insects biting my undereye area and had itchy-finger-ly applied some cream. I'm not sure if I had an allergic reaction to it or because I had scratched the undereye area and my skin had been 'broken' but I woke up the next day to my eyebags and cheeks being super puffed up. It took me a whole week to get them back to normal. In fact, you probably can't see clearly in the photo above but I still had my motherload of weird wrinkles at that time. They had not completely gone away yet. 

Meanwhile, after suffering over the weekend, my hubby finally went for an x-ray which showed no fractures (praise the Lord for I am sure the Lord heard our prayers for healing!) and little by little, he managed to hobble a little faster. My swelling more or less subsided after 3 days but I was left with another problem. The thin eye area had ballooned and then subsided, leaving me with a whole lot of never-seen-before wrinkles! It was horrific. The skin was cracked and flaking! I had a glimpse of how I could look in the hopefully, distant, distant future. Anyhow, in another post, I may share what I used to get rid of the wrinkles overnight!

So back to the Ordination.....when we were both ill, we decided we weren't going for the Ordination. But seeing as Mike and I were on the road to recovery, we felt sorry that we had not signed up for the tickets. Wednesday night, we spoke of going. Thursday morning, we got offered tickets. As the Lord would have it, we did go. How wonderful is our God?

To cut a long story short, the Ordination Mass was simply beautiful and His Grace? He touched me with his humility. He IS very much a people's priest. You should have seen the people cheering. Now, he's known as His Grace, Archbishop Coadjutor William Goh but to me, he will always be Father William Goh, the very nice, funny, down-to-earth and more importantly, anointed and Charismatic priest! Whatever name you call him by, we are very blessed to have him as our new Archbishop. Very, very blessed. Thank you, Lord for this wonderful Gift!