LOVE this - John and Bobbi with their precious family celebrating oldest son, Jude's 4th birthday today on the 5th Sunday of Advent! A week from today is Palm Sunday then Holy Week - Palm Sunday will be our Nancy's birthday!
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Singing Happy Birthday with 4 candles on his doughnut and cupcake! It is a huge wonderful party to share mass and brunch afterwards on the farm with 18 today! We brought Augustine and Bernadette back with us from Delano last night. Attended a very wonderful fundraiser for their Catholic School - St Max! .jpg)
Pat blessing our food, the farm with all the cows and calves and Jude on is birthday today. We had our 71st calf on cow TV during breakfast. They are coming quickly now. About 10 in a 24 hour period!
Sweet Jude is the last of the 3 boys in 6 weeks to turn 4. George, Jude and Hector are all 4 years old now. George is on his way with his family to party with his buddy Jude!
John with precious 10 week old Lucy!
Pat held her through mass and she did not let out a peep.
Joy will be 6 next week on Friday. She is so true to her name! She comes shopping with grandpa and grandma for breakfast along with Jude and Birdie - the two 10 year old girls joined us today too. Rose and Berna wanted to pick out the golden honeydew melons! We bought the last 2.
Luke couldn't wait to get to his cousin buddy, Gus!
Best friend cousins - Rose and Berna are just 6 months apart and so happy to see each other. How we love to see the cousins coming together!
Just received Jesus in His Body, Blood and Word! Our JOY knows no bounds! The amazing Gospel today was from John 11 - the raising of Lazarus! Fr Shawn spoke about "Jesus wept." How the human emotion yet also the raising of him from the dead showing he was also God! Fr Shawn also had a most wonderful homily about the HS gift of tears! I have this and I asked hubby if he had more of an appreciation of my gift of crying happy or sad. Even Ruth had to admit that she now feels much better about this ability I have! Thanks, Fr Shawn!
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Grandma and Lucy watching Cow TV - We saw calf #71 be born! Name it Jude.
Smiling for mom and grandma.
Pretty in pink - new outfit from Colorado.
Smiling for her wonderful mommy. I must be on my way to Jude's party!
Jude with grandpa on his 1st birthday 3 years ago. It looks like it was Sunday that year too!
Worth sharing again - Be with Jude today and always. Jesus, we trust in you. Bless-bless, Barbara and the 34
Fr Kyle speaking at the fundraiser last night. Pat shared how much his homily on suffering and offering it up means to us! Wow!
Your Suffering Is Not Meaningless (buzzsprout.com)
Fifth Sunday of Lent*
*Final Lenten Sunday before Palm Sunday
Give me justice, O God, and plead my cause
against a nation that is faithless. From the deceitful
and cunning rescue me, for you, O God, are
my strength. - Entrance Antiphon (Today's Liturgy)
"Without the Eucharist,
the Church would not exist.
The holy Eucharist
is the central point of our life.
I remember once a priest I met. He never talked at great length
about the sufferings, persecutions and tortures, but he mentioned
that even in prison, all the priests would celebrate the liturgy.
I remember once a priest I met. He never talked at great length
about the sufferings, persecutions and tortures, but he mentioned
that even in prison, all the priests would celebrate the liturgy.
We were amazed; how could this be possible?
Where did you get a Chalice and a Paten?
He took off his glasses and said:
'This is what we used; one lens served as the chalice
with a drop of wine and on the other a piece of bread
was placed, which served as the paten.'

This is how they celebrated the liturgy in the prison
or around the premises of the concentration camps.”
Major-Archbishop Swiatoslav Schevchuk
Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
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We pray, almighty God,
that we may always be counted
among the members of Christ,
in whose Body and Blood we have communion,
Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
- Prayer After Communion (Today's Liturgy)
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