The Pat and Barb Verly family and their 5 children, in laws and grandkids along with many prayer warriors have been drawn together by John's cancer... sharing daily for 8 months started this blog- Family Soul Story - Our faith, family, farm and now our cancer journey called HEALING have colored and deepened our world. WE continue to share and depend on the support of our prayer warrior community, that has lowered us into the Lord's presence for His healing!
It takes a domestic Church/family rooted in The Church to raise a child/"receives this child in my name"
Nancy and Bill with Goddaughter, Rose Again, a year ago on her First Communion. A wonderful reminder of how our Domestic Church/family surrounds the little ones with love and guidance as they learn to love and follow Jesus through The Catholic Church!
Nancy and Bill are in the midst of a new ministry called the Domestic Church project where families are led to share their faith in their homes!
Little Sister Hallel/Susan with her special nephew, Simon, some years back. Simon has autism to deal with and her prayers are with him each day.
We are so blessed to have a nun, who spends her day with the poor - Jesus in Word, Eucharist, and Adoring him with hours of Adoration/prayer! Her prayers are real and felt as we face each new day with all the struggles that come with a growing domestic Church/family! Currently we are praying without ceasing for 2 new lives in the womb - that all 4 will come to their birth healthy and happy!
Maria with her newborn Romeo, who just turned 7. It is wonderful to see the legacy of Patrick Verly carried forth now into the next generation!
At our engagement weekend - we were the only couple that shared how we wanted to have a big family. After ALL the others shared that they would have at most 2 children due to the mess of this world... It made me question if we were being selfish to want to have many children? Pat's answer with no hesitation whatsoever..."The world needs lights!" Yes!!!
Mary 8 years ago with her sweet bunnies - she has continued to love all animals and keeps busy being a goat farmer as well as working at the dog kennel, and caring for the neighbors' goats when they go to shows here and there.
Soon she will also welcome her new baby brother, and be called upon to help mom with him, too.
The most recent picture of my domestic Church/family only missing Hallel and granddaughter, Maggie Rose born in May.
A friend wrote about this - "Your family fills up the Church!" Yes, we do! My greatest JOY is that we share our entire Catholic Faith as a family! No matter what distance separates us we are united in The Eucharist each Sunday wherever we are! Open to LIFE and raising LIGHTS with the help of Jesus, Mary and The Church!
Danielle Rose - See you in the Eucharist
Added Hallel to make it complete! Now with a new granddaughter, and 2 more - a grandson and a granddaughter to soon arrive - the picture always needs to be updated!
My gift from Maria for Christmas last year, and a daily reminder of how we are to offer it up. LIFE is not a bowl of cherries - it is a daily struggle and we are weak and need to have Jesus help us as we stagger down the narrow path carrying/dragging our Most Cherished Cross!
Our Domestic Church/family was expanded to include hundreds with the"yes" of our Susan to come into The Community of the Lamb in 2008. Who said that taking a vow of Celibacy makes your family sadly smaller with no grandchildren... not true! So many Little Sisters and little brothers are now part of our family and their prayers have been huge for us in all that we face from John's brain cancer to grandson, Patrick, born dead and brought back to life! Each time we face struggles we have them praying with us! So blessed!
Last night as John and I prayed together as our hours of Adoration overlap - John prayed about how he is feeling that the Lord is prompting him to share his story of finding faith through our crosses. How he burns to share the Love he has been shown through his healing and finding Faith through his brain cancer, and now a wife and family! The story continues and we are all amazed and grateful!
I cannot get over my own discerning a vocation has now given me a Bride of Christ - my 4th daughter, Susan/Little Sister Hallel! So amazing to me that time to time I am allowed to taste a personal time of deepest prayer and the Sacraments as I am allowed to spend days with them! There are some fake plans of me and a couple daughters go to Kansas City over MEA! Also hubby wants to go when the crop and harvest is done! How we love our Family of the Lamb just 6-7 hours away from our farm!
Baby Romeo on his baptism day 7 years ago. So special to me is also grandson, Patrick, dressed in white 2 years after I baptized him in the middle of NICU in El Paso hospital - Divine Providence just a few blocks away from St Patrick's Cathedral where I spent many tears and prayers for his recovery! And so today he is happy and healthy and now an older brother to 3 since Romeo!
Baptism of Romeo 7 years ago on base in El Paso, TX. All share this entry into The Church with JOY! United in our Faith!
Johnny with Rose Again some years ago. This is now Ruth's home and all is changed on the inside!
John now with wonderful wife, Bobbi, and children, Jude and Birdie. We are so grateful for this answer to John's prayers!
Joyce and Joy in Ruth's new kitchen - her command center where she can watch all that is happening in the busy farm yard. Checked with hubby and things are going "good" with harvest today. "I am driving right through the corn plant, and that is appreciated." Many prayers for the farmers and for all that it will take to get this years' crop out safely and sanely."
Always bales to be picked up and soon corn stalk bales are the next big job. LOVE to see our old farmhouse still loved and more beautiful than ever. Ruth has the vision and does the work to make it a special show place!
Ruth's gorgeous porch and her flowers added that stunning beauty to our table sharing our brunch after mass yesterday! She amazes me!
LOVE the smiles and JOY and the beauty from this vantage point of the early fall landscape which frames our farm lives with the Bounty of the Earth as we do all the work to feed the world!
Hubby struggled with all the changes Ruth made to our old farm house, but I knew that someday he would sit on her beautiful porch and smile and say to himself - "Now I see that it was all a good and wonderful change for the better!" and so it has become!
Lord, how we love you and embrace all that we are called to die to self so that you may live in us! May we serve without counting the cost. You teach us in the Gospel today that we are to be open to life and raise LIGHTS! Jesus realized the intention of their hearts and took a child
and placed it by his side and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. For the one who is least among all of you
is the one who is the greatest.” Luke 9 Jesus, we trust in you. Amen and Hallelujah
Lord, use me to your honor and glory and help me to say a cheerful "yes". Bless-bless, Barbara
Praying with son, John, and doing my litany of more and more - over 250+ ! My hour is filled with Faith/Family/Farm - "Jesus, and Mary, I love you. Save souls!"
Mom's daily devotions of Pope Benedict XVI is lately on Marriage and today being open to Family! Yes, The Church is the great family upon which our domestic Church/family is based and from which flows all Truth, and LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT! Jesus and Mary - the Lord and Lady rule!
Now dad and St Vincent de Paul from the Office of Readings today! The poor in our midst are those we are given for our journey.
St Vincent de Paul was praying before the Eucharist one time
and, after a man told him about a poor person
on the street needing help, St Vincent said:
"I am going to Jesus from Jesus."
St Vincent de Paul
1580-1660 ~ France
Priest, Co-Founder of Daughters of Charity
Founder - Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians)
Patron - Charitable societies*
*Society of St. Vincent de Paul, founded 1833 by devotee, Blessed Frederic Ozanam
Incorrupt
Feast Day - September 27
"We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience
we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything."
Now when I read in dad's prayer book his longing to come to Jesus... I smile as I know that his prayers and hopes and dreams have been answered, and I was allowed to share in that journey with him as he lived here and we did the work of prayer in our farm monastery for the last 6 months of his life! Thanks to the world pandemic!
Lord, use me to your honor and glory and help me to say a cheerful "yes". Bless-bless, Barbara
Praying with son, John, and doing my litany of more and more - over 250+ ! My hour is filled with Faith/Family/Farm - "Jesus, and Mary, I love you. Save souls!"
Mom's daily devotions of Pope Benedict XVI is lately on Marriage and today being open to Family! Yes, The Church is the great family upon which our domestic Church/family is based and from which flows all Truth, and LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT! Jesus and Mary - the Lord and Lady rule!
Now dad and St Vincent de Paul from the Office of Readings today! The poor in our midst are those we are given for our journey.
Now when I read in dad's prayer book his longing to come to Jesus... I smile as I know that his prayers and hopes and dreams have been answered, and I was allowed to share in that journey with him as he lived here and we did the work of prayer in our farm monastery for the last 6 months of his life! Thanks to the world pandemic! 
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