"A que é semelhante o reino de Deus e com que poderei compará-lo?" Jesus (Lc 13,18) 🎉⛪️Santo Antônio Galvão (Frei Galvão)rogai por nós🙌🙏! ✍️️A grandeza do reino de Deus, presente nos pequenos gestos que fazem a vida florescer, manifesta-se no matrimônio pelo compromisso de amor e edificação mútua assumido pelos cônjuges. 📖🙌 Evangelho (Lc 13,18-21) — O Senhor esteja convosco. — Ele está no meio de nós. 🙌 — PROCLAMAÇÃO do Evangelho de Jesus Cristo, + segundo Lucas. — Glória a vós, Senhor. 🎤 Naquele tempo, 18Jesus dizia: “A que é semelhante o Reino de Deus, e com que poderei compará-lo? 19Ele é como a semente de mostarda, que um homem pega e atira no seu jardim. A semente cresce, torna-se uma grande árvore, e as aves do céu fazem ninhos nos seus ramos”. 20Jesus disse ainda: “Com que poderei ainda comparar o Reino de Deus? 21Ele é como o fermento que uma mulher pega e mistura com três porções de farinha, até que tudo fique fermentado”.📖🙌 — Palavra da Salvação. — Glória a vós, Senhor.🙏 #santoantôniogalvão #freigalvao #santoantoniodesantanagalvao #nossasenhoradobomsucesso rogai por nós 🙌⛪️🌍🇧🇷👨👩👧👦🙏 #turkmenbashi #balkanabat #dashhowuz #ashkhabad #mary #turkmenabat #nisa #merv #kunyaurgench #uzbequistão #irã 🙌🙏 (em Mary, Turkmenistan)
A Leader Loses His Grip… Day 24 Turkmenabat to Ashqabat
OCTOBER 3RD, 2010
Peking to Paris Motor Challenge update. More about the race here
Arthur Freeman and Roger James - Ford Deluxe Coupe
Is metal fatigue beginning to make its impact on the results? Today was a fairly straight-forward run of 600 kilometres through the vast sands of the Taklamikan Desert, a Time Control out in the morning, one to clock in at the end of the day in the capital city of Ashgabat, and a few Passage Controls where no timing is recorded during the day. It sounds mighty light on pressure, but it was enough to see Max Stephenson in the 1925 Vauxhall tumble off the top of the leaderboard of the Pioneer Category, as he lost time with a broken steering arm.
He arrived at the hotel on the back of a truck, and for that, the penalty is that Max and navigator Carl Watson lose their claim for a Gold Medal finishers-award. It is a totally disheartening end of a very hot day for the two Australians who have dominated the top of the Pioneer leader-board since the outset.
Charlie and Nellie Bishop who have been 25 minutes adrift of the Australians now take over the top spot as 1st overall in the Pioneer Category, and David Ayre, in a remarkably reliable effort in the 1907 Itala, now takes up second overall, and Nicky Bailey and Janek Mamino in the 1918 Buick Roadster are third.
Driving the Impossible
Max Stephenson and Carl Watson - Vauxhall 23/60 - drop from leading the Pioneer Category
In the Vintageant Category, Steve Hyde in the Chevy Fangio Coupe still commands the pre-’41 Vintageant Category, with Michael Thompson and Andrew Davies second in a Chrysler 75 Roadster that survived the Peking Paris last time, they are just under 30 minutes off the pace of the leaders, and William and Victoria Medcalf are third in their Bentley. Michael and Anne Wilkinson are holding fourth in their Alvis.
In the Classic Category, Gerry Crown in the ’64 Holden with Matt Bryson is cruising along, having injured his wrist Gerry has let Matt take over the driving as the constant gearchange was just aggravating an old rally-injury, but he reckons he will be driving again when the Time Trials re-start in Iran.
The Turkish team in the ’67 Anadol – a glassfibre bodied car built in Turkey for some five years with the help of Reliant, powered by a Ford Cortina 1600cc engine, is second, and the Aston Martin DB5 of Adrian Gosen and Andrew Honeychurch holding third.
We are now in Ashgabat, a city that rarely makes the news. The capital of Turkmenistan, it is all wide tree-lined streets, immaculately kept, it could be Zurich, or Geneva, not a single cigarette-end is allowed in the gutter, there are manicured lawns, rows of pot-plants, lots of fountains, including a roundabout which a tour-guide reckons on being the largest water fountain in the world, and as you drive down the streets, little fountains in the central reservation of the dual-carriageways are lit up with constantly changing colours. The architecture is just unique – one vast government building, the national library, looks just like an open book. Truly a fascinating place.
Tomorrow we have the border to cross into Iran in the morning and then a massive 600 kilometre day to Gorgan... life on the Peking to Paris is certainly unpredictable.
Some Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest… Day 23 Samarkand to Turkmenabat
OCTOBER 2ND, 2010
Peking to Paris Motor Challenge update. More about the race here
Andreas Pohl and Rainer Wolf - Bentley - Towed across the border to Turkmenistan
We said our goodbyes to the fabled city of Samarkand in the early hours of this morning. The first car on the road was Car 107, the big black Austin Sheerline of the Australian crew Norman Brice and Colin Ryan. They were out of the hotel at 3.30am, anxious to be early at the tricky border crossing out of Uzbekistan, and then entering Turkmenistan. Final destination: a local lunatic asylum.
The latest chapter of woes for the Austin crew was over-filling the engine with oil, so much so that lots of oil left an oil-slick trail down the road the other day, and also a wheel-bearing has been replaced (grease having been washed out on one of the earlier river crossings – another victim to not having used waterproof grease).
The rest of the rally were starting out from 5.0am. An extensive breakfast had been organised for all at our hotel from 4.30, one of the best breakfast’s we have seen so far.
The day has been boiling-hot from the moment the sun came up. Hanging around at borders in the full heat of the sun surrounded by the Taklamikan Desert is certainly a test of endurance.
At the border, Andreas Pohl and Rainer Wolf of Germany in a 1928 Bentley were successfully towed across the border – then finding a truck to take them to one of the hotels organised for the event, the car is suffering from engine problems.
The rally has been split up tonight into four hotels tonight – one is not exactly a hotel, it’s the local Sanatorium, such is the difficulty in finding enough beds for the whole event. This has caused some amusement. Crews finding a run down ex-Communist era concrete block, windows missing in part, overgrown grass in the gardens on the approach, and in-patients who are mentally ill walking zombie-like, shuffling up and down long corridors lined with large ceramic tiles.
The bedrooms have two camp beds, a small table with an oilskin tablecloth, a cupboard contains a toilet, another cupboard door leads to a shower, and “facilities” are shared with an adjoining room. Soap, towels, plugs for the washbasins, are absent, but, hey, we could just as easily be camping in the grounds.
This place first saw a car rally when our Around the World in 80 Days was accommodated here ten years ago. Since then, some things have improved. There are no longer iron bars across the windows. There are photographs up on a hall wall showing the latest “advances” in electrical treatment…one elderly woman is having an implement that rather looks like an electric toothbrush being applied to the front of her forehead, and the operator looks more terrified than the patient. This might explain why so many patients are shuffling around, some are in bright Kermit-green pajamas with blue slippers, with nurses in attendance in blue nylon overalls…everyone here looks as if they have been here for years.
Stephen Fitzgerald, in Car 104, the white Mercedes 280, arrived dressed in a striped orange shirt that rather blends in with the local lunatics…he wonders if any of us would ever be allowed out in the morning, and expresses strong objections to staying in “a hovel”. He calmed down and reluctantly accepted his lot once others explained this was actually the best place in town with off-street car parking.
Tomorrow: We all face a long hot day hacking down tarmac roads through the Taklamikan Desert.
