We have received word that Hallel is taking her final vows in France almost exactly 10 years from when she left to enter The Community of the Lamb! There is much excitement with the girls getting passports for their families and the fake plans are flying. The window is between our County Fair and State Fair... August 15th and combined with John and Bobbi's wedding 2 months before... makes for an exciting summer indeed!
As Maria stated..."The wedding day of all of your children is happening!" It seems that Susan/Hallel and John share powerfully in each other's life story!
http://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/johns-cancer-stories.html
How powerful was it to have John fighting brain cancer at the same time Hallel was joining her order in France? The fact that after his second chemo we miraculously went to France to support her as she took her habit and changed her name was out of this world!!!
Standing in the snow behind Ruth's house... Luke came out to take a small branch inside for them. With baby Joy crawling around it has to be small and up on the counter to last at all!!
2004 Maria was living behind the enclosure with the Poor Clares discerning her call. I gave her a butterfly through the grill and she placed on it..."Come, Follow me!" So true for her as she asked the Lord to show her the path he had for her... she discerned out after 5 months and is now married for 11 years this summer and has 5 children here and 2 in heaven!
The Stations of the Cross are huge in her life and in her discernment! When she came home one of the first things she did was make me a stations of the Cross in the grove around the house - it is there yet!
Joy had been born on March 31st... her first birthday is on Holy Saturday! She had her baptism in the midst of David's First Communion with about 60 other 2nd graders. Father's message to the parents..."I baptized your children 8 years ago, where have you been since? Please bring them to mass each Sunday now to receive Jesus in His Body and Blood."
How I am yearning to make my Cross and butterfly for 2018!!! I am afraid it will look wintry with the snow that continues to cover our earth for Easter on April 1st, 2018!
Today in the Gospel Jesus washes the feet of the disciples. I have experienced this numerous times on retreat and been on both ends of the foot washing... so powerful and humbling! Maybe it is my own insecurities but I find having someone washing my feet as more humbling than washing those of others.
Maybe it is the nurse in me, and how I truly do enjoy and love to care for other's physical needs including bathing those that are unable to do it for themselves... as a hospice nurse working with those close to death... this is a most precious time of honoring them with comfort and washing away the sweat and drainage and secretions that come from our bodies made in his image!
How Mary must have yearned to wash clean her Son as she held him after all the bleeding, sweating, and falling in the dirt and baking in the hot sun... wash his body now at peace in death and honor the LIFE that had come from her - "Yes!" So much pain and Trust in The Plan for him... 3 days later to rise to newness of LIFE, and to whom do you think he went first?
We made the move of Good Friday, and Pat says that it was the right thing to do! We are staying here for Easter and know that our two in KC will be together for Easter at Lumen Christi! Maria and Joseph will likely be together with his brother in Seattle. Ruth and I have fake plans to have us come over and share in the Easter JOY of the little ones and they hunt for eggs - inside this year due to the snow and mud - and then we will have a farm dinner Easter dinner together... then naps!
Holy Thursday tonight shared with Ruth, Paul and the kids!!! The institution of the Eucharist!!!
“Consider, on your knees, the mystery
of God’s love for us, that He didn't want to leave us orphans.
… For Christ knew our hunger for Himself.
He knew that we would be walking around in the darkness
of a thousand wars and miseries throughout this life. …
This is Holy Thursday. This is when the Christ we are talking
about took an ordinary piece of bread and a little wine and changed it into
His Body and His Blood. … Remember this day always, year after year:
the day of Christ’s infinite love, when He went away
and yet He remained, in Bread and Wine, and in the priest. …
In His immense love, Christ chose men
who would have His hands and His feet, in whom He could walk,
in whom He could forgive sins, who could lift Him up, who could give us
the sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist – the Bread and Wine,
which He said makes for everlasting life!
The incredible love of God is visible to us! ..."
Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Love this from Easter 2 years ago... a new one is in order for 2018 with a sweet smiling Joy Jean in the midst!!!
"Without the priest, the passion and death
St John Vianney
of our Lord would be of no avail.
It is the priest who continues the work of redemption here on earth...
Leave a parish for twenty years without a priest
and they will end by worshipping the beasts there...
The priest is not a priest for himself,
he is a priest for you."
"O, how great is the priest!...
If he realized what he is, he would die."
St John Vianney
Patron of all priests
This priest is family, and always there for us in our ups and downs of life! Father Craig, we love you and thank you for always being there for us!
I was moved in the depth of my heart as his words to us this day of laying our Maximilian to rest..."You are a prolife family." Yes!!! with all that we have we are open to LIFE and raising LIGHTS for the world!
Jesus, how my heart sings with thanksgiving for all the ways you have ministered to us over this last year. We arrive now at the Triduum and we fall down and worship as we wash the feet of those in our lives that need our help to find you and be washed clean. Jesus, may we follow after you carrying/dragging our Most Cherished Cross and finding LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT. Jesus, we trust in you. Amen
A profound LOVE of LIFE! How I prayed that my girls would not have to experience this loss, but his plan is not ours, and instead I was there with them at the times of their losses! We walked across the cemetery to visit their dearly beloved grandma Ann's grave and beside her their two brothers, William and Robert, who I lost at 20 weeks each! Bless-bless, Barbara Mary Luke... my eyes on heaven to see my 7 someday... Christopher, Thomas, Joseph, Paul, William, Robert and Mary joined with 4 grandchildren!
Praying for peace for all this Triduum!
“If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.”-John 13: 14-15
HOLY THURSDAY
Today Catholics around the world celebrate the institution of the Eucharist as the true body and blood soul and divinity of Jesus Christ and the institution of the sacrament of the priesthood.
During the Last Supper, Jesus offers himself as the Passover sacrifice, the sacrificial lamb....
At this Mass, the priest washes the feet of twelve people to symbolize Christ’s washing of his twelve Apostles.
Holy Thursday marks the end of Lent and the beginning of the sacred "Triduum,” or three, of Holy Week. These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic Church.
At the conclusion of the Mass, the faithful are invited to continue Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament throughout the night, just as the disciples were invited to stay up with the Lord during His agony in the garden before His betrayal by Judas.
After Holy Thursday, no Mass will be celebrated again in the Church until the Easter Vigil celebrates and proclaims the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Today Catholics around the world celebrate the institution of the Eucharist as the true body and blood soul and divinity of Jesus Christ and the institution of the sacrament of the priesthood.
During the Last Supper, Jesus offers himself as the Passover sacrifice, the sacrificial lamb....
At this Mass, the priest washes the feet of twelve people to symbolize Christ’s washing of his twelve Apostles.
Holy Thursday marks the end of Lent and the beginning of the sacred "Triduum,” or three, of Holy Week. These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic Church.
At the conclusion of the Mass, the faithful are invited to continue Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament throughout the night, just as the disciples were invited to stay up with the Lord during His agony in the garden before His betrayal by Judas.
After Holy Thursday, no Mass will be celebrated again in the Church until the Easter Vigil celebrates and proclaims the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Yes!!!
Danielle Rose - A Mother's Song/The Crucifixion
Danielle Rose - If I touch him
Francesca Batistelli - Lead me to the Cross
Ginny Owens - If you want me to
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