Pictures have run dry these days so I went back to pictures taken a year ago today. Rose was then 4 months and now she is 16 months. It looks like I had her here for part of the day, and did my usual photo shoot. Today is a special day in The Church - it is first Saturday, and Pope Francis is calling for a day of prayer and fasting with the intention of world peace - most especially for the intention of the Middle East/Syria!
"All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace. #prayforpeace
Dear young people, pray with me for peace in the world #prayforpeacePeace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs all of humanity#prayforpeace...
09/05/2013
There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness
With all my strength, I ask each party in the conflict not to close themselves in solely on their own interests. #prayforpeace" Pope Francis said this yesterday
My grandbabies are usually seen with a rosary - I am constantly with one and they find them fun to play with and yes - put in their mouths when they are starting to discover the world.
It was a very special morning to be able to make it to mass this morning followed by a special joyful mysteries of the rosary, and reconciliation. In order for peace to reign in the world - it needs to begin within us and this was the best way for that to happen! Our amazing Church is such a LIGHT to the world and offers us all we need to find HIM and serve HIM with great joy and peace. We were reminded in the meditation for the second joyful mystery - the Visitation - that "Elizabeth knew that in welcoming the Mother, she was welcoming the Son." St Alphonsus How I love to realize that my great love and devotion for Our Lady leads me ever closer to her Son! Mother Mary Francis was an abbess of the Poor Clare Monastery in Roswell, New Mexico, and I became familiar with her and her wonderful deep writings while Maria was in the Poor Clares behind the enclosure for 5 months in 2004! Mother Mary Francis writes today in the meditation these amazing sweet words about Mary...
"Mary preferred, she chose, to accept what was to her was not understandable, and to return to her humble home and to go about her duties and to ponder these things in her heart. She made her own choice to allow him to fulfill all that was involved in his Passion. And she did not, when she met him on the way of the Cross, lapse into hysterical sobbing, nor did she demand that this should be stopped. She chose the will of God and she chose it freely - It is very important that we do not allow our Lady to be distanced from us by her Immaculate Conception, but to be brought closer to us. She is the one to teach us poor sinners because she is called the Refuge of Sinners. Our Lord did not give her to St John and say, 'Now I am giving her to you, and she is the Mother of all the flawlessly holy ones.' But he gave her to be the Mother of all persons... and he knew what was in man, what was in each one of us, our weaknesses as well as our strengths." Mother Mary Francis (2006)
Dear Jesus, we storm heaven this day with all the angles and saints and your Church led by our new Pope Francis - we beseech YOU to allow Peace to reign on this earth! We are filled with your river of Life-giving water as we have been filled with your Body and Blood this day, and had the graces and gifts of being freed from our sins as we laid them at your feet in the confessional! We long to become more and more yours with each new day, and this day is one of deep prayer and penance for the sake of bringing YOUR Way, your Truth and your LIFE into this world. So much is given to us so that we may embrace our Most Cherished Cross and follow after YOU. Our Lady is there to show us how to Trust and hold all we are given in Your Word and Sacrament in the depths of our hearts. Jesus, we trust in YOU. Amen and Hallelujah
"Receive, O Lord, we ask, the prayers of your people with the sacrificial offerings, that, through the intercession of Blessed Mary, the Mother of your Son, no petition may go unanswered, no request be made in vain. Through Christ our Lord. Amen." Prayer over the offerings from mass today
Thank you, little Rose, for gracing my sharing today from a year ago today!
Shine by the Newsboys - this was shared by a homeschooling family on the road with the windows down and singing at the top of their voices! Picture it.... I can!
Just thought I would share another oldie Christian song that makes you want to dance and sing at the top of your lungs!
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