The grass is bright under the melting snow still here this year of another April Blizzard.. two years in a row. Realizing that there was also a blizzard with feet of snow in 2013 when Hallel came home for her home visit..."3 blizzards in the last 6 years!" farmer Pat pointed out.
Hearing about long lines for confession in the Cities from a sister-in-law... they will have 10 priests to accommodate all the penitents for as long as it takes! She is off to Basilica of St Mary for a prayer service for the fire in Notre Dam yesterday! The entire world seems to be grieving the fire damage done to this century old Catholic Church of Our Lady!
Maria is a new mom to child #6 now in these 12 years since! Simon is 14 and already had drivers ed, and he now has 5 younger siblings, too! Roger was killed last summer on the road after all these years.
I guess that I am just looking back at spring and Easter pictures... focusing on the green grass and new leaves and this year we have the new little boys to rejoice over and Easter will be most special as we gather around baby Jude as he is baptized at the Easter Vigil surrounded by 20 of our 29 in our immediate family! About as good as it gets for us!
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My heart was tugged by the readings today... there was much about those in the womb of their mothers and how the Lord names them and loves them and cares for them!
"The LORD called me from birth,
from my mother's womb he gave me my name...
For now the LORD has spoken
who formed me as his servant from the womb...
I will make you a light to the nations,
that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth."
Isaiah 49
Yes, this is speaking about Christ, but also each of us, who are called to be LIGHTS to all those we meet most especially those in our domestic Church/family!
https://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/johns-cancer-stories.html
In the Psalm today more of mother and child and the LOVE of our LORD for LIFE in the womb!
"For you are my hope, O LORD;
my trust, O God, from my youth.
On you I depend from birth;
from my mother's womb you are my strength...
O God, you have taught me from my youth,
and till the present I proclaim your wondrous deeds.
R. I will sing of your salvation."
Psalm 71
When LIFE is celebrated and surrounded by LOVE and prayer from the moment we know it is growing in the womb... no matter how small... there is pain at their loss yet so much hope and yearning to see them someday in heaven. Our eyes, hearts and souls look to heaven and we strive to follow after Jesus with the help of His Mother and the Saints to LIGHT everlasting!
Jesus, today in the Gospel you shared a last meal with your disciples and shared your suffering and pain with them of betrayal. How we love you and share with you on this journey to The Cross. We know that if we join with you and embrace The Most Cherished Cross that we find LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT as it becomes the Tree of LIFE filled with the green leaves and blossoms and fruit of spring time! The Lamb with no blemish is sacrificed for our salvation and we are so unworthy of your undying LOVE and Mercy! May we return that love and mercy to those the closest to us that we treat the worst! Jesus, we trust in you. Amen
With his biggest brother, little Dave, who is 9...Why little Dave? Because he has a cousin, David Lanoue, who is Big Dave and is a year and a half older and therefore taller for now anyways!
How can you not be upset by the emotion, the dignity, the unity of a nation around its cathedral, Notre-Dame De Paris? After the tears will come joy because Marie will always be the most beautiful. After the sadness will come hope because Marie will always be the strongest.
St. Bernadette Soubirous (1844–1879) was the eldest of nine children born to an impoverished family from Lourdes, France. She was a sickly child who suffered from severe asthma her entire life. While out collecting firewood on February 11, 1858, at the age of 14, Bernadette saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a grotto cave on the banks of the Gave River. It was the first of 18 times that the Blessed Mother would appear to her. Bernadette faced much controversy and opposition as a result of her visions, including humiliating interrogations from both the civil and ecclesiastical authorities. Yet, many of the townspeople believed her and gathered at the grotto when she continued to have visits from the Virgin Mary. During one of the visits a hidden spring was shown to St. Bernadette which proved to have miraculous healing power. When Our Lady finally revealed her name to Bernadette as the "Immaculate Conception," the local bishop acknowledged the visions as authentic. As requested by Our Lady of Lourdes, a church was erected at the site of the grotto and spring. Today, Lourdes is one of the most visited Catholic pilgrimage shrines in the world. Multitudes have experienced medically documented cures of body and soul from the Lourdes waters. St. Bernadette became a nun and died at a convent in Nevers, France, on April 16,1879, at the age of 35. She was canonized in 1933 by Pope Pius XI. Her feast day is April 16th.
Such a powerful evening praying in front of the tabernacle with my Lord while a long line of penitents poured their hearts out before our Lord in confession! It seems that the horrible state of this celebrated culture of death is bringing us to our knees! Jesus, we need you!
This day 2 years ago... Easter in KC with Hallel and all but the Lanoues!
Easter Sunday in Kansas City with Hallel and The Community of the Lamb - we are missing Ruth and Paul and their 6, who are home watching over calving. In a month we will all be together minus Joseph as our nun comes home for her first home visit in 4 years! Family time is the Best! Happy Easter all! Jesus our LIGHT has ended death/darkness. Bless-bless — with Joe , Maria Theresa, John Verly, Nancy Bandzuch and Bill Bandzuch.
Peter Mayer - Holy now
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