St Ignatius, who brought the 13 into The Church 48 years ago, looking over the couch is now with them in their new home... also a wonderful picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe was just to out of the Picture here and has now graced their new home in Assisted Living in New Hope.
https://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/the-amazing-story-of-13-becoming.html
I have some fake plans to get up there this weekend and take them to The Sacrament of Reconciliation before Christmas. How special would it be to share that with them... placing our sins and weaknesses at His feet in the Confessional is hard and humbling, but what JOY to hear Jesus through the priest telling us to go in peace and that our sins are forgiven! Why try to hide them in the dark - He sees ALL!
I am eternally grateful to both of my parents for listening to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in their lives and finding the True Church for all of us!
Our Lady of Guadalupe is on the wall facing my mother now. So powerful is her symbolism of wearing that black ribbon around her robe - revealing that she is pregnant with Jesus in her womb!
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Patroness of the Americas
December 12
“Am I not here, I, who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need anything more? Let nothing else worry you, disturb you.”
These were the words of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St Juan Diego when she appeared to him in 1531. They are still relevant today as Archbishop (now Cardinal) Burke reminds us in a homily he gave at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe that he helped establish in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Some insights...
“…our late and most beloved Pope (Saint) John Paul II placed the mission of the Church in America, at the beginning of the Third Christian Millennium, under the protection of the Virgin of Guadalupe and commended her to us as the Star to lead us to Christ and, in Christ, to the conversion of our personal lives and the transformation of our world.” ...
(Cardinal) Burke calls this apparition “the mystery of the Visitation as it was experienced on our continent in 1531. The woman clothed with the sun, bearing the Infant Savior, the Anointed, in her womb, appeared to Saint Juan Diego, from December 9 to 12, 1531, in order that a chapel be built in which she might manifest the all-generous and never-failing merciful love of God for us, incarnate in her womb and alive for us in the Church, above all, in the Sacrament of the Real Presence, the Holy Eucharist.”
“…she has desired to remain with us always, in order that the mystery of the Visitation might be always new for us. She has miraculously left her living image on the tilma or mantle of St Juan Diego. In the magnificent basilica built to her honor, in which the tilma of St Juan Diego is enthroned, the Mother of God continues to visit pilgrims and to announce to them the great mystery of God’s all-loving and never-failing mercy.” ...
“… in 1531, she inspired her sons and daughters to abandon the horror of human sacrifice and to respect the inviolable dignity of every man, both the Native American and the European, so now she inspires us to be tireless disciples of the Gospel of Life, working to end the horror of procured abortion and so-called “mercy-killing,” and to promote the respect for the dignity of every human life from the moment of inception to the moment of natural death.”
This picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe described so powerfully in Revelations 11-12 today in mass readings read all around the world!
"A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun,
with the moon under her feet,
and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth.
Then another sign appeared in the sky;
it was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns,
and on its heads were seven diadems.
Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky
and hurled them down to the earth.
Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth,
to devour her child when she gave birth.
She gave birth to a son, a male child,
destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod.
Her child was caught up to God and his throne.
The woman herself fled into the desert
where she had a place prepared by God..."
How the poor are prayed upon by those that take the lives of their unborn... it is so powerful that Our Lady appeared to, yet again, another very poor and lowly person, Juan Diego! At that time human sacrifice was happening there, and her intercession ended that horror. How we pray that it will end here and in the world at large! How did it ever come to this point where innocent human life in the womb is attacked and killed up to birth?
It makes me realize how much has changed seeing us still living on the farm. Now the wood stove is gone and this is Ruth and Paul's bedroom and the kitchen is on the other side of the house. Soon they will start working on the inside of yet another remodel - adding on a bedroom for 2 of the boys and totally redoing the upstairs of the house! Ruth and Paul do not shrink from huge projects!
Jesus, I will share this amazing prayer from St JPII here today;
"O Mary, bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living, to you do we entrust the cause of life: Look down, O Mother, upon the vast numbers of babies not allowed to be born, of the poor whose lives are made difficult, of men and women who are victims of brutal violence, of the elderly and the sick killed by indifference or out of misguided mercy. Grant that all who believe in your Son may proclaim the Gospel of life with honesty and love to the people of our time." -St John Paul II
Shouting from the rooftops and this blog - ALL LIFE should be protected and cherished from conception to natural death! Jesus, with St JPII and St Teresa of Calcutta and all the Angels and Saints along with Mary the Mother of God and the Queen of heaven and earth - SAVE LIFE! Jesus, we trust in you. Amen and Hallelujah
My dad after completing the office then lifts up our family by name - not just the first name of his over 50 great grands, but first and middle! Mom is baffled by his amazing memory, especially now that she has been diagnosed with dementia. She depends on him to be hers now... her memory. She can surprise us from time to time though....
https://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/johns-cancer-stories.html
Happy Feast Day
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Feast Day: December 12
Words of Our Lady to St. Juan Diego: "Listen, put it into your heart, my youngest and dearest son, that the thing that disturbs you, the thing that afflicts you, is nothing. Do not let your countenance, your heart be disturbed. Do not fear this sickness of your uncle or any other sickness, nor anything that is sharp or hurtful. Am I not here, I, who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need anything more? Let nothing else worry you, disturb you.”
Danielle Rose - Hail Holy Queen
Danielle Rose - Memorare
Danielle Rose - Litany of Humility
Danielle Rose - Queen of peace - 5th Glorious Mystery … Mary is crowned Queen of heaven and earth
Danielle Rose - the Saint that is just me
Peter Mayer - Holy Now
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