Grandma had so much fun finding a kitty shirt in my drawer of children's clothes that I collect here and there... perfect fit! Also had fun doing her curly red hair into french braids, or as we call them around here Bernadette braids as opposed to Indian (Kateri) braids! Add the soft lovey kitty in my mom's chair with the natural lighting... LOVE!
This says it all in song!
This sweetness greeted me! Joy and Snowball!
Couldn't get enough of this soft light filled cuteness! Grandma had to best time planning, doing the work and finally taking about 10 in a good old fashioned photo shoot with 2 such cooperative subjects!
Yes, she is as happy and sweet as she looks and he is that soft and snuggly! A picture to cherish in the memory books! Joy and I talked about her being a big sister in November. She is excited and ready to help mom!
A call from Pat last evening and then a ride with him as he baled... It was bumpy and the air was blowing right on my face, which was appreciated in that humid oven last night.
A new bale we had just dropped out of the baler...
Amused by the kitten doing the classic playing with the shoelace trick....
Dad made me smile in morning prayer - Psalm 8 - How great is your LOVE, O Lord our God, through all the earth! Yes, dad! So true!
Danielle RoseTrue Love - the Cross!
We got a tiny bit of rain overnight, so with a hold up we are soon to head up to join Nancy and Bill at their County Fair in the heat. We will pick up their 2 oldest, Gus and Berna, and Maria's oldest, Therese, who will have a few days here on the farm until I take T up to catch a plane to Seattle on Tuesday. There was not room for her in the car for the trip back, so she is flying solo and her family will be home by then and pick her up. They have a large vehicle for their family of 9+ ordered but it won't be made until next month. The unique problems of saying "yes" to children!
Watching Pat finish up with only a few raindrops... please send us bountiful rains, O Lord and Lady!
Today in the readings - another parable of the seed! This time the weeds have been sown into the wheat by the enemy. At the harvest the weeds are burned and the wheat put into the barns.
I loved the Alleluia before the Gospel today - R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you
and is able to save your souls.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you
and is able to save your souls.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Everything right here! Jesus - the Word- fills us with LOVE/LIGHT/LIFE!
Brother Victor today - I wonder if he is having this heat and humidity?
So great from 4 years ago - Ruth's beautiful porch with Mary, Joy and Paul! Soon a new baby boy to fill their arms and to make our love grow more! Each new life adds to our love!
A cherished memory from 30+ years ago! The 4 older girls with homemade bread dough filled with our homemade apple pie filling! Love Maria's wet sleeve as a sign of washing her hands well in the sink. Nancy had a reveal yesterday that she will be welcoming a baby girl around Christmas! More LOVE coming for our domestic Church/family! Jesus, we trust in you. Bless-bless and Hallelujah, Barbara
In 1875 Fr Sharbel was granted permission to live as a hermit nearby his monastery at St. Peter and Paul hermitage. His 23 years of solitary life were lived in a spirit of total abandonment to God.
Sharbel's companions in the hermitage were the Sons of God, as encountered in the Scriptures and in the Eucharist, and the Blessed Mother. The Eucharist became the center of his life. He consumed the Bread of his Life and was consumed by it.
Though this hermit did not have a place in the world, the world had a great place in his heart. Through prayer and penance he offered himself as a sacrifice so that the world would return to God. It is in this light that one sees the importance of the following Eucharistic prayer in his life:
Though this hermit did not have a place in the world, the world had a great place in his heart. Through prayer and penance he offered himself as a sacrifice so that the world would return to God. It is in this light that one sees the importance of the following Eucharistic prayer in his life:
"Father of Truth, behold Your Son a sacrifice pleasing to You, accept this offering of Him who died for me..." On December 16, 1898 while reciting the "Father of Truth" prayer at the Holy Liturgy Sharbel suffered a stroke. He died on Christmas Eve at the age of 70. Through faith this hermit received the Word of God and through love he continued the Ministry of Incarnation.
St Sharbel MakhlufLebanon ~ 1828-1898Priest and HermitPerfume of LebanonIncorruptFeast Day - July 24
When Sharbel was canonized (1977), Bsp Francis Zayek,head of the U.S. Diocese of St. Maron, wrote a pamphletentitled “A New Star of the East.” Bishop Zayek wrote:“St. Sharbel is called the second St. Anthony of the Desert,the Perfume of Lebanon, the first Confessor of the East to beraised to the Altars according to the actual procedure of theCatholic Church, the honor of our Aramaic Antiochian Church,and the model of spiritual values and renewal.Sharbel is like a Cedar of Lebanon standing ineternal prayer, on top of a mountain.”
Danielle Rose
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