While grandpa was up as a Eucharistic Minister, Joy in the front row was saying over and over, "My papa!" She seems to be just fine with Pappa holding Jude instead of her!
We are thrilled that Ida is just minutes away from Nancy and her family and is excited to be an extra grandparent to her 5 kids!!
How the Gospel rang with the LOVE we are given through Christ!
Jesus said to his disciples:
"I have come to set the earth on fire,
and how I wish it were already blazing! "Luke12
That fire is the LOVE of God which Jesus came to LIGHT the world with!
The cows and calves loving the cool morning after getting a really good shower overnight!
Yes, we encounter God's LOVE in our walk with/following Jesus down the narrow path carrying/dragging our Most Cherished Cross! It was described by St Paul today in the second reading...
Brothers and sisters:
Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us
and persevere in running the race that lies before us
while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus,
the leader and perfecter of faith.
For the sake of the joy that lay before him
he endured the cross, despising its shame,
and has taken his seat at the right of the throne of God.
Consider how he endured such opposition from sinners,
in order that you may not grow weary and lose heart.
In your struggle against sin
you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood.
Hebrews 12:1-4
Yes, we run the race and as Father said it doesn't matter if we do it gracefully and well, but just so we willingly die to self and do it! Jesus is there to set our hearts on fire as we strive to follow Him!
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Joys turn to entertain with the recorder on a beautiful Sunday morning sharing family time after receiving Jesus in His Word, Body and Blood! 
It is exciting to realize that over the next couple years we will have 4 first Communions and about every year after we will be celebrating this amazing gift/Sacrament with our many wonderful grandchildren all being raised in The Church as we share our Faith as a family! How my heart sings for Joy! As Paul says... "We cannot hold in JOY!"
A amazing masterpiece to my eyes and heart!
Joy, Jude and a kitten getting licked and held!
Jesus, we cannot hold JOY in! WE love with a fire that burns in our hearts as we strive to run the race no matter how poorly. Jesus, we trust in you. Bless-bless, Barb
Much needed rain - thank you, Lord!
"Take my advice,
and in every Mass ask God to make you a great saint.
Does this seem too much? It is not too much.
Is it not our good Master Who protests in the holy Gospel that,
for a cup of cool water given out of love of Him,
He will, in return, give paradise?
How, then, while offering to God
the blood of His most blessed Son,
should He not give you a hundred heavens,
were there so many?...
O blessed Mass!
Expand yet more and more your heart,
and ask great things of Him,
with the reflection that you ask of a God
Who does not grow poor by giving, and, therefore,
the more you petition for, the more you will obtain."
St Leonard of Port Maurice
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