Sunday, July 26, 2015

"Jesus is LIFE." Mary Lanoue

Sweet 3 year old Rose listening to the music practice for the next mass today.  I was very touched today looking at her older sister, 9 year old Mary, taking notes as Fr Paul gave the homily!  Looking at her wonderful example of giving the Gospel/ Jesus in His Word the attention He deserves... I am determined to learn from her and start taking my Mass Journal along to mass, too!
 Sunday breakfast on the deck after Church today at great-grandma's house.
 Singing "We Believe" by Newsboys... it was so wonderful singing this Praise and Worship song today after receiving Jesus in The Eucharist.  I was fighting back tears with the power of the Spirit so present with the sharing of the young people just back from Steubenville North retreat!  Sharing how the Adoration of Jesus processed through the crowd in the monstrance made the youth realize - This is Jesus!  He is alive and real and here with us!  "The youth were reaching out to him as he passed by them - wanting to be as close to him as they could."  Shared a young girl up in front of us this day as a proclaimer of the Word!  The Holy Spirit is at work!
This is what we watched on grandma's I pad and sang along with.  In Church to hear Simon and Mary's beautiful voices singing with us... it was a wonderful moment of Praising HIM!
Mary brought in her Mass Journal and shared her sweet simple words/gems she gathered from the homily today - "Jesus is LIFE."  She shared with great grandma...

The Gospel today was the amazing Loaves and Fish from John 6... how could it not be from John 6?  I had forgotten that this amazing chapter of John known for giving us the command in black and white to eat his Body and drink His Blood started with the miracle of feeding the 5,000 with 5 barley loaves and 2 fish!  It makes it that much more and more and more and more and more... just as those broken loaves and fish fed them all their fill with baskets left over... Jesus is our Life-giving food and feeds us and fills us!
 Starting our time together sharing meal and The Meal of heaven and earth - the Eucharist - with a song - We Believe!
 We do Believe, and our LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT is found by embracing our Most Cherished Cross and following after Jesus!
 Learning from the sweet humble example of our granddaughter, Mary, who is looking to her Faith and how to make it more her own.  Dying to self so that Jesus can live and work in her life!
 Mary's wonderful parents, who are encouraging her to pursue her faith as a soon -to-be 4th grade girl.  You are never too young to grow in your knowledge and love of Jesus and His Bride, The Church!
Grandpa and 10 year old Simon shared some time in mass.  I adore how Pat is so loving and involved with our kids and grandkids - sharing mass and our Faith with JOY!  It is so much more attractive to show them that we LOVE Jesus and The Church with honey rather than vinegar.

 Rose is comfortable in this familiar place where she shares time each week with her family and Community of Faith.

Jesus, I am so filled with happiness and great JOY this day to see the Spirit at work in your Church!  To witness the young people recognizing YOU, O Lord, in The Eucharist and in The Word and in those brothers and sisters there sharing their Faith one with the other!   To see my young grandchildren taking notice of The Truth shared there and praising you with the songs we share our Faith!  Learning and growing as a result of those "childlike" that are hungry for You, O Lord, in your Body and Blood as well as in your Word.  I am learning how to grow from them and we never stop doing that!  Jesus, I trust in you.  Amen and Hallelujah
Bless-bless, Barbara Luke

Pat and I shared some family time in Stillwater yesterday with my parents and some sibs and spouses... it was great!
 Thanks mom and Dad!
Two of my brothers - Al and Bruce!  Missed seeing my brother James - whose feast day was yesterday!  Happy Feast Day Jim!
 
Borrowing some watermelon pics from afar

Soon Patrick will be 3, and loves watermelon!

I hear that it is hot there, and this looks cool and matches your pink top, Therese! 

That looks like LOVE to me!  Romeo will be 1 in about 6 weeks - on grandpa Pat's 61st birthday!
Julie Cross's photo.
A group shot on the boat borrowed from my sister-in-law, Cheryl.

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