Retreat with mom and dad... babies and calvies

11 month old Joy looking like she is not sure what this warm breath is on her face, and seriously asking us to save her with her eyes! 


Mom and big brother along with grandma and the nice camera headed out to introduce Joy to her first calves...

Ruth had mentioned this unique calf out of a white mother, "he's grey with a white brindle marking on his face."  He was easy to catch and Joy seemed to ignore him.

Studying him through slits must be quite the perspective for her... he sniffed the fur on her collar and wondered what this little red critter was, too! 

"If I close my eyes and make a wish... will he be gone when I open them up?"

"Yeah,,, go back to your mother she wants you more than me anyways."

Memories from 6 years ago... 9 month old Gus even smiling when he meets his first calf!  LOVE!!!


I am off for 3 wonderful "retreat" days with my parents.  They will be looking for me by lunch time, so no time to share here today other than the pictures I was joyfully given as a gift yesterday!

Joy was not impressed...


Jesus, may I not be proud but humble in your presence - "Be merciful to me a sinner."  Jesus, I trust in you. Bless-bless, Barbara Mary Luke

Mom!!!!!


Ponder this:

"An argument was once made use of by a pious painter named Leonardo.  He one day met in an inn two men, one of whom was a Lutheran and the other a Calvinist.  They were ridiculing the Catholic doctrine about the Blessed Sacrament.  

 

The Calvinist pretended that by these words, 'This is My Body,' it was only meant that the bread signifies the Body of Christ; the Lutheran, on the other hand, asserted that this was not true, but that they meant that bread and wine, in the moment of their reception, became, by the faith of the recipient, the Body and Blood of Christ.

While this dispute was going on, Leonardo took a piece of paper and drew the image of Our Lord Jesus Christ, with Luther on the right hand and Calvin on the left.  Under the image of our Saviour, he wrote the words: 'This is My Body.' Under the figure of Calvin he wrote: 'This signifies My Body'; and under that of Luther: 'This becomes My Body in the moment that you eat it.'  

 

Then handing the paper to the two disputants, he said: 'Which of these three is right, our Saviour, or Calvin, or Luther?'  They were struck at the force of the argument, and ceased to scoff at the Catholic doctrine."

 

Excerpt from The Blessed Eucharist: Our Greatest Treasure

by Fr Michael Muller, C.S.S.R. (pg 9)

First published 1868.  Reprinted 1973, 1994.