2 1/2 month old Jude Dale on his grandpa's shoulders while on his second big trip... this time to Colorado for Father's Day weekend. His dad's Twins hat allowing him to be in the shade and look back at mom and dad behind him.
I am given permission to share here briefly today with so much coming at me with this new week! As Pat pointed out that if he told me not to write I would have had a meltdown, and that is quite true! It did give me some joy that he said he realizes how important sharing here is for me... thanks, Honey!
Another Father's Day shirt and adorable smiling face...
I am still so touched to hear from our amazing Father Craig as he is in Rome with 2 other young amazing priests and 25 youth and that he is lifting up John there as we all pray for the Lord to be with him as he is returning to school as a radiology Tec and his future work in supporting his family!
Love this of Paul with his 6 yesterday and how it portrays raising 6 kids on the farm and just through life is big and self- sacrificing on his part and Ruth's, Isn't that what the Lord asks of us? To die to self so that He may live and work and teach and heal and love in this world? And how this world of sin and darkness needs the many lights we bring into this world!!!
At the Twins game yesterday!
St Paul today speaks so much about how in our dying to self/suffering and persecution...through much endurance,
in afflictions, hardships, constraints,beatings, imprisonments, riots,
labors, vigils, fasts; 2 Corinthians 6
How are all these hardships accomplished as we are weak and sinful ourselves?
"...by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness,
in the Holy Spirit, in unfeigned love, in truthful speech,in the power of God;
with weapons of righteousness at the right and at the left..."
Yes, we are called to give him our all and He is in control as he sends the Holy Spirit to give us the grace to love and serve without counting the cost!
Soon these two chubby boys will be united with their cousin in the middle... 3 weeks older than Jude and 3 weeks younger than George... Hector!
Hector yesterday... he used to have hair like Jude, but looks like he is joining George in the lack of hair department. But equally chubby and adorable! Grandma can't wait to get the 3 of them together and have family time supreme!
Hector seems to love the idea too!!!
Maria getting through the airport with 6 kids in tow is giving me lots to pray about tomorrow. I will in my chapel on wheels heading down to KC to be there when they get off the plane in the Cities and drive 7 hours to spend two days with Hallel and The Community of the Lamb! Lord, keep us all safe... guardian angels watch out for each one of us! Bless-bless, Barb
"The Eucharist is the summit of God's saving action:
the Lord Jesus, by becoming bread broken for us,
pours upon us all of His mercy and His love,
so as to renew our hearts, our lives,
and our way of relating with Him and with the brethren.
It is for this reason that commonly, when we approach this Sacrament,
we speak of 'receiving Communion,' of 'taking Communion':
this means that by the power of the Holy Spirit, participation in
Holy Communion conforms us in a singular and profound way to Christ,
giving us a foretaste already now of the full communion with the Father
that characterizes the heavenly banquet, where together with all the Saints
we will have the joy of contemplating God face to face."
Pope Francis
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