If there is any way for my Most Cherished Cross husband to smile... give him one of his little sweet grandchildren! I am famous for taking pictures from behind, as he is not happy with all the pictures I take, but give him a baby and he beams ear to ear. Hence on our trip out to Washington to see our family I was able to capture his LOVE for LIFE over and over. I also love to see his huge hands cradling those little ones!
His birthday is on a very special and amazing feast day! John and I were wowed by this from the Magnificat this morning as we shared morning prayer..."Whenever Mary loves us, she gives us Jesus. By obeying the Lord in our devout beholding of the Mother of God, we give Mary the chance to speak her Yes to the "annunciation" uttered from the cross "Behold your son."
She is our mother and we bring her into our homes!
I have been struggling with internet today, so this is going to be shorter than normal! I learned some years back from Hallel to look at the Psalm for the #of years old and Psalm 63 is great! The readings for today are so great too! Jesus, giving us his mother while he is dying on the Cross! The best!
Psalm 63 for Pat today!
Psalm 63[a]
A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.
1 You, God, are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
where there is no water.
earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
where there is no water.
2 I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.
3 Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
4 I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
5 I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
and beheld your power and your glory.
3 Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
4 I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
5 I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
I love to see so much about LOVE and LIFE as these are hugely a part of my life due to my wonderful husband! His listening to The Truth shared within by the Holy Spirit - "The world needs lights" has given direction to us in our marriage and now that of our children!
http://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/my-most-cherished-cross-patrick-gerard.html
Jesus, bless Pat with many more years to share his message about being open to life and raising lights. Yes, it was a hard cross with the many losses, but we trust in you perfect plan and we now are keeping our eyes on heaven as we long to meet our little ones and be forever in heaven with you and your glorious Mother, Mary of Sorrows, and all the Saints! Jesus, we trust in you. Bless-bless, Barb
Luke's first day of preschool! "It was fabulous!"
The month of September is devoted to honoring Our Lady of Sorrows – the Church celebrates the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, today, September 15th. The devotion to Our Lady’s sorrows recalls the Blessed Virgin Mary’s spiritual martyrdom in virtue of her perfect union with the Passion of Christ as she stood resolutely at the foot of the Cross.
My rosary beads help me find this more than anything!
Hills and Valleys
Ryan Stevenson - the Gospel
I know a family going to be present for his Beatification! They are stopping in KC to see the Little Sisters next week on the way!
"Father Rother has also sparked the devotion of 12-year-old Harrison Gibbs, a parishioner of Divine Mercy in Faribault. His mother, Andrea, is on the advisory committee of Friends of San Lucas, which supports a Catholic mission across Lake Atitlán from Santiago in San Lucas Tolimán. Harrison has visited Santiago Atitlán twice, once when he was six, and again when he was 10. Both times he visited Father Rother’s shrine in the church and the room in the rectory where he was murdered.
Harrison Gibbs, a parishioner of Divine Mercy in Faribault, stands next to a presentation he created about Father Rather earlier this year. Courtesy Andrea Gibbs
“He still did extraordinary things, even though he was still normal, and anyone can do that,” Harrison said. “Just because they think, ‘I’m not like that,’ but you [Catholics] are. You could do something amazing.”
He recently chose the priest as the subject of a presentation for his homeschool group, and he may choose him as his confirmation saint. Harrison also plans to attend the beatification with his mother, grandmother, three of his four siblings and a family friend.
After her first trip to San Lucas Tolimán while in college and multiple trips a year since, Andrea, 36, said she feels a special connection to Father Rother — like she knows him, not just about him. She added that it feels somewhat strange to have him go from a seemingly little-known martyr venerated in her household, to a household name.
Her family has been influenced by the spirit of Father Rother and his contemporary, Father Greg Schaffer, a St. Paul native and priest of the Diocese of New Ulm who ministered in San Lucas Tolimán from 1963 to his death in 2012, and who was friends with Father Rother. Knowing Father Rother’s story and leading trips to Guatemala has changed “every aspect” of her family’s life, Andrea said, including the way they shop, travel and handle money.
“You cannot come into contact with Christ in the poor and those that have given their lives as martyrs and not be changed by this,” she said in an email.
Harrison and his dad, Jeremy, also plan to run two half-marathons next year to raise money for a San Lucas project."
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