Ruth and Paul with their 7.
Family Soul Story - Choose Life!: Susan Angela Agnes/Little Sister Hallel - the story of a Call
One of their matching coordinated outfits with baby John and baby chick - Maria must have missed this picture but for sure she had a robe too!
Even themes for Halloween - boy did we make a huge mess wherever we went with our corn leaf Hawiian skirts!
Yesterday I had the joy of taking 8 year old Luke for his First Reconciliation. I also had a chance to meet with a priest, and I guess that I was in there much longer than Luke... Luke was amazing and even told me a Gospel story/parable on the way to town that reminded me of a sin I needed to confess - the proud pharisee and the humble tax collector. Thanks, Holy Spirit speaking through sweet Luke.
Catholic Schools week mass today and only David has not been sick so was in the chior.
A week from today - next Sunday at 3P is the Confirmation mass here, and our oldest grandson, Simon Patrick will be confirmed! Our First grandchild to be confirmed. Next year Mary will join him. Then shortly after his confirmation we will gather around grandson, 2 1/2 month old Thomas Robert for Simon and Mary to be his Godparents at his Baptism! LOVE!
A week from today so many wonderful firsts we will celebrate with Ruth's family!
Then this spring Luke will celebrate his First Holy Communion! Not very often that all of these wonderful glorious Sacraments of The Church be celebrated in just a few months time! I guess when your oldest is 17 and your youngest is 2 1/2 months old it happens. They are very blessed!!!
Sitting next to John, Bobbi, Jude and Birdie... 15 of us sharing mass together! Our hearts are so filled with LOVE! The 2nd reading today is from I Corinthians 13 - the LOVE chapter! Read by a sweet little Catholic Schools student is was very powerful and so well read!
Love is patient, love is kind.
It is not jealous, it is not pompous,
It is not inflated, it is not rude,
it does not seek its own interests,
it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing;
if tongues, they will cease;
if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I used to talk as a child,
think as a child, reason as a child;
when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,
but then face to face.
At present I know partially;
then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
It is not jealous, it is not pompous,
It is not inflated, it is not rude,
it does not seek its own interests,
it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing;
if tongues, they will cease;
if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I used to talk as a child,
think as a child, reason as a child;
when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,
but then face to face.
At present I know partially;
then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
I especially smiled when he read about talking like a child and and thinking like a child - when in fact it was a child reading it! LOVE is the greatest of ALL!!!
Caramel Rolls in the Church basement after mass!!! So good, right Birdie Barbara!
Grandpa and Jude come with their caramel rolls with smiles.
9 years old Rose brings us smiling Thomas.
Smiling with bubbles - a big day in a week for you sweet boy! A tie that binds to have your two oldest siblings as your Godparents!
Pat always talks about how his oldest brother is his youngest sister's Godfather and it has kept them close to this day. A wonderful added gift to little sweet Thomas Robert!
It was pretty cute to hear Jude ask where little baby Thomas was. Rose was holding him at that point. "Ruth is mom to Thomas." LOVE how we are united as a family sharing our faith - Jude and Birdie were sad last week when Ruth and Paul were up in the Cities for mass at The Basilica of Mary in Minneapolis where Pat and I were married 43 years ago! "Where are my cousins? I want to go there and have doughnuts." Jude cried
Joy and Birdie at rolls after mass. So wonderful to have some social time with others from church. Those caramel rolls are so good!!!
Rose and Joy out to see the new baby calf that will be a bottle calf - "His name is Otto, and Joy can have another bottle calf like Snowball last year."
In the pen in the shop with the 5 baby bottle goats.
These two girls are super great willing helpers on the farm. We love to have our young farm family on the farm. So grateful for all the work they do!
Joy and Birdie at rolls after mass. So wonderful to have some social time with others from church. Those caramel rolls are so good!!!
I am given so much each day- from mom and dad, too!! Bless-bless, Barbara and family sharing our Faith/Farmily/Farm
Danielle Rose
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