Rain needed/ask and receive - pasture pools with the calves/Shared Mass-I will worship at your holy temple and give thanks to your name.

Grandpa happy to have Tom in his big farmer hands to begin mass shared with 2 of our children and their families!  How we love to share our Faith as a family and then to gather on the farm for a shared meal - grandma and grandpa spoil with fruit, doughnuts, and even ice cream treats for dessert.  So much JOY and LOVE and even PEACE!  It all equals a happy time shared to begin our week.

I went out with Pat to move the cows and calves to the next pasture on a hot summer afternoon yesterday.  I went down to find some sink holes with some water left in the pasture.  Soon the calves came down to stand in the nice water in the shade of a willow tree.  

I even had my toes in the water, too.   We are in very much need of rain!  

 A lot of the creek looks like this where cool rushing water was just a month ago.  We even are having some mysterious bite injuries on the legs of some of the cows across the road from the farm, and we are wondering if it could possibly be a large snapping turtle that is being protective of the shrinking water in his bog!?!

We have to keep a close eye on the water supply for the cows and calves, as it is shrinking to some pools here and there.

The most lush green grass is on the banks of the only water in the pasture.

I kind of watched them come towards me...

Now the calves joined me in the creek until Pat came to pick me up after he checked the fence to make sure it was working to keep them in the pasture and safe.

Yesterday I could hear the thunder in the morning, but it "went north" reported farmer hubby.  The Gospel today promising us that if we ask we will receive - reminds me of many summers that we have had masses for rain, and had those "million dollar rains" that have saved our crops when things were drying up.  We are getting to that point now.  Many prayers for rain!!!  

"And I tell you, ask and you will receive;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks, receives;
and the one who seeks, finds;
and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened..."  Luke 11

Lord, send us rain for the cows and calves, our gardens, and the thousands of acres of beans and corn!

People around us at mass have watched Tom getting bigger and bigger with each new week.  He is now 8 months old and such a sweet happy and good boy!  

The Psalm 138 today from mass speaks of how we love to come to worship and share our Faith each Sunday!  I, too, am beginning to make it to daily mass before I go to the Y for swim aerobics.

I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart,
for you have heard the words of my mouth;
in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise;
I will worship at your holy temple
and give thanks to your name.
R. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.
Because of your kindness and your truth;
for you have made great above all things
your name and your promise.
When I called you answered me;
you built up strength within me.  Psalm 138

Jude and Joy waiting to do shopping for our Sunday Brunch shared on the farm.  Jude loves to pick out all things chocolate, and Joy is such a sweet girl to help us, and show Jude the fun of shopping with grandma and grandpa for our Sunday Feast!  Yes, Tom fell asleep in daddy's arms for mass today.

Pat waving to Fr Tony....

Ruth's beautiful porch for our feast - Tom getting some yogurt from his pretty pretty mommy.  

Lil Dude indeed.  

Beautiful table on Ruth's porch on the farm.  A beautiful morning shared after receiving Jesus in Word and Eucharist.

So beautiful and how we love to share our Faith/Family/Farm!  

A new tradition has begun with ice cream bars after brunch - especially good in the summer time.  Jude picked them out - as they were topped with chocolate and his mom's favorite M and Ms! 

Beautiful sunflowers from Ruth's amazing garden - she puts me to shame!  

Suns to reflect our JOYFUL times together on Sundays - 17th Sunday of Ordinary Times - I emailed Hallel in France to discover if she is safely in Saint Pierre today.  Getting there involved having to juggle flights and not leave on the day they had planned, but rather yesterday instead.  It is 7 hours later there, so it is already 10p!  

From John and Bobbi's wedding on June 2nd,2018 which was 4 years ago - their 5 Godchildren dressed alike in their sweet fluffy pink dresses!  

2 year old Birdie Barbara wore one of them to mass today, and brought up "fairy wings" to be a "fairy" after we shared our meal!  Of course, grandma had to get a picture or...

or 2 pictures...

or 3 pictures... and 

even 4 pictures 

Along with one taken from behind - pretty in pink!  How special to now see their daughter wearing one of the special dresses from their wedding for their Goddaughters - 4 of them!  It is so fun to see her being happy and comfortable at her cousins' farm home!  Thank you, Lord, for our big and growing family - each new one brings more LOVE for us to share!  Jesus, we trust in you! Please send us rain!  Amen and Hallelujah

Goddaughter, Josephine with older sister, Bernadette and Rose by Our Lady and St Therese!  How we love our Saints!  Bless-bless, Barbara and the 53 - 34 with us and 19 in heaven to keep our eyes on reaching heaven forever!  How I think of them at mass!  I know they are adoring our Lord with us!  

Good Sunday!

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"Sunday is the core of our civilization,

dedicated to thought and reverence."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

This Hymn can be sung to the tune used for

The Glory of These Forty Days

 

Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer.

That calls me from a world of care

And bids me at my Father's throne

Make all my wants and wishes known!

In seasons of distress and grief

My soul has often found relief ,

And oft escaped the tempter's snare

By thy return, sweet hour of prayer.

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A Sunday well spent

brings happiness and content.

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Sunday, July 24

For this joyful occasion, the Holy Father has granted Plenary

Indulgences to grandparents, the elderly and all the faithful who participate

in one of the following "motivated by a true spirit of penance and charity."

 

~ By participating in a solemn liturgical celebration on July 24th,

either in person or watching virtually “uniting themselves spiritually

to the sacred functions of the World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly,

offering to the Merciful God their prayers, pains or sufferings of their lives,

especially during the transmission, through the means of television and radio,

but also through the new means of social communication.”

 

~ By devoting adequate time on July 24th, to actually or virtually visit

those who are elderly and in need or in difficulty

(such as the sick, the abandoned, the disabled and other similar cases).

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Gaining a Pleanary Indulgence is significant because it is the remission

of the punishment for all sins committed from the day of baptism. 

The indulgence can be applied to any deceased person you wish

but it cannot be applied to any living person, except yourself.

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Lauren Daigle