Hallel Psalm 150 -" Let everything that breathes praise the LORD! Hallelujah!"/St Peter Claver and St Paul/Ring around the rosy

Special time with John's 2 yesterday - the red white and blue theme and the wonderful light from their huge picture window beckoned to me.  They were so good and sweet for grandma and gave me the gift of both looking at me for a second.

Jude's special puppy looking out upon the world outside made for a cuteness, too!

Time outside on a special day.  Birdie was a bit under the weather so grandma got some snuggle time on my lap more than usual.  Special time indeed.

Of course, her special blanket and thumb were comforting on grandma's lap, too.

They are so smart!  I started singing "Ring around the rosy" while Jude circled the post... he giggled and when I said; "we all fall down!"  He gently did just that!  He not only understands all you say to him, but he and Birdie already have many words!

"All fall down!"

"Ring around the rosy... A pocket full of posy..."  Not sure what it meant when I was a kid or my kids were kids and now grandkids... but they sure think that it is a fun game!

Such a smart sweet kid!  We also admired the big wonderful fluffy clouds in the sky!

They each have their own broom and are quick to clean up their messes, and have a broom battle at the same time.  Grandma has to duck from the waving broom handles.

It was a delight to find so much today in the readings read all around the world at mass from the Vatican to a small country church!  St Paul to the Colossians was full of SO MUCH!  Then an Hallel Psalm of total praise!  Hallel is the first part of Hallelujah, and "every time we say that we are giving God total praise!"  Psalm 145-150 are Hallel Psalms! 

Responsorial Psalm 150:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6

R.    (6) Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!
Praise the LORD in his sanctuary,
    praise him in the firmament of his strength.
Praise him for his mighty deeds,
    praise him for his sovereign majesty. 
R.    Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!
Praise him with the blast of the trumpet,
    praise him with lyre and harp,
Praise him with timbrel and dance,
    praise him with strings and pipe.
R.    Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!
Praise him with sounding cymbals,
    praise him with clanging cymbals.
Let everything that has breath
    praise the LORD! Alleluia.
R.    Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!

I think you can see how wonderful this is to have with us with each breath that we take and every beat of our hearts - "Jesus and Mary, Jesus and Mary, Jesus and Mary..."

Brooms are good to have battles with... 

Their sweetness and goodness is a way of praising the LORD and LADY!

As I said there is so much today!  St Paul in Colossians 3 - every word and thought is a pearl of great price!  

Reading I Col 3:12-17

Brothers and sisters:
Put on, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved,
heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,
bearing with one another and forgiving one another,
if one has a grievance against another;
as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do.
And over all these put on love,
that is, the bond of perfection.
And let the peace of Christ control your hearts,
the peace into which you were also called in one Body.
And be thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly,
as in all wisdom you teach and admonish one another,
singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs
with gratitude in your hearts to God.
And whatever you do, in word or in deed,
do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Wow!  So much here and how I see that with my domestic Church/family as we support and love and serve one another!  With LOVE we are able to be kind, gentle and patient, and forgive one another.  Humility is always there, too!  And boy do we get that piece of humble pie served to us over and over.  Thank you, Lord and Lady!  Gulp!

Some special belated Birthday wishes to the "Best Mother there is!"

She is with me on this journey and takes my needs to her Son.  She comforts me and holds me close to her Immaculate heart - helping me to stay away from sin and walk in the light of Christ!

Every day!!!

LOVE this!

I am reminded of St Peter Claver today and his work with the black slaves that came to South America!  His words... 

From a letter by Saint Peter Claver, priest
(Epist. Diei 31 maii 1627 ad Superiorem suum data: Edit [in lingua hispanica] A. Valtierra, S. I., San Pedro Claver, Cartagena, 1964, pp. 140-1)

To preach the Gospel to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim pardon to captives

Yesterday, May 30, 1627, on the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, numerous blacks, brought from the rivers of Africa, disembarked from a large ship. Carrying two baskets of oranges, lemons, sweet biscuits, and I know not what else, we hurried toward them. When we approached their quarters, we thought we were entering another Guinea. We had to force our way through the crowd until we reached the sick. Large numbers of the sick were lying on the wet ground or rather in puddles of mud. To prevent excessive dampness, someone had thought of building up a mound with a mixture of tiles and broken pieces of bricks. This, then, was their couch, a very uncomfortable one not only for that reason, but especially because they were naked, without any clothing to protect them.

We laid aside our cloaks, therefore, and brought from a warehouse whatever was handy to build a platform. In that way we covered a space to which we at last transferred the sick, by forcing a passage through bands of slaves. Then we divided the sick into two groups: one group my companion approached with an interpreter, while I addressed the other group. There were two blacks, nearer death than life, already cold, whose pulse could scarcely be detected. With the help of a tile we pulled some live coals together and placed them in the middle near the dying men. Into this fire we tossed aromatics. Of these we had two wallets full, and we used them all up on this occasion. Then, using our own cloaks, for they had nothing of this sort, and to ask the owners for others would have been a waste of words, we provided for them a smoke treatment, by which they seemed to recover their warmth and the breath of life. The joy in their eyes as they looked at us was something to see.

This was how we spoke to them, not with words but with our hands and our actions. And in fact, convinced as they were that they had been brought here to be eaten, any other language would have proved utterly useless. Then we sat, or rather knelt, beside them and bathed their faces and bodies with wine. We made every effort to encourage them with friendly gestures and displayed in their presence the emotions which somehow naturally tend to hearten the sick.

After this we began an elementary instruction about baptism, that is, the wonderful effects of the sacrament on body and soul. When by their answers to our questions they showed they had sufficiently understood this, we went on to a more extensive instruction, namely, about the one God, who rewards and punishes each one according to his merit, and the rest. We asked them to make an act of contrition and to manifest their detestation of their sins. Finally, when they appeared sufficiently prepared, we declared to them the mysteries of the Trinity, the Incarnation and the Passion. Showing them Christ fastened to the cross, as he is depicted on the baptismal font on which streams of blood flow down from his wounds, we led them in reciting an act of contrition in their own language.

RESPONSORY
Matthew 25:35, 40

I was hungry and you gave me food;
I was thirsty and you gave me drink;
I was homeless and you took me in.
– Now I tell you this:
When you did these things for the most neglected of my brothers,
you did them for me.

This is what I command:
Love one another as I have loved you.
– Now I tell you this:
When you did these things for the most neglected of my brothers,
you did them for me.

CONCLUDING PRAYER

Let us pray.

God of mercy and love,
you offer all peoples
the dignity of sharing in your life.
By the example and prayers of Saint Peter Claver,
strengthen us to overcome all racial hatreds
and to love each other as brothers and sisters.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
– Amen.

I think we know that they were not laying in mud...human filth!  St Peter help us to love and care for those that are left to wallow in their filth!  May they come to know Jesus and find unconditional LOVE and forgiveness by the way we love and care for them!

Rose again 5 years ago with baby kitties in the sunlight in the green grass.  I am needing to get my now green grass mowed!  

How we need Jesus to dwell in us - The Eucharist!

Always put Christ first in our lives!  "Seek a quiet place... taking time daily to pray from the depths of our hearts."  

More from St Paul to the Colossians - as St Peter Claver modeled for us to "bear fruit in every good work, as you grow in the knowledge of God."  

Two kids and a puppy by a window...

Jesus and Mary, we love you.  Save souls!  May we die to self so that we may become your hands and feet, and voice of Truth and LOVE!  Jesus, we trust in you.  Amen and Hallelujah

Loving the lush green grass that has returned after the prayed for rains!  They are talking about combining beans tomorrow. It will be very interesting to see how they are after most of our summer was spent in a severe drought.  Bless-bless, Barbara

Danielle Rose

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