The nun run girls - "O hearts that seek the LORD!"/Cows around the barn/getting the bug to dress the groups alike - 4 years ago - +JMJ+

4 years ago with the 3 little girls dressed alike - my passion!  We had butchered chickens as a family job in the morning and then the most perfect setting for the girls in their matching outfits...

On the front porch of  Ruth's beautiful playhouse!

Yes, the green grass 4 years ago and the cows and calves right there on the other side of the electric fence!  The baby calves in the long lush grass looking on at this sight of 3 friend cousins.  I am starting to get the bug again knowing that Maria will return in 2 weeks and hopefully we will get a family picture together.  

Joy now 4 years later is 6 years old and loves to have a tea party with grandma when she comes over... so yesterday we had zucchini bread with our tea on the porch and the cows and calves were in the pasture watching us. 

She knows right where the tea set is and always with milk and sugar.  She reminds me that her mom loves her coffee very sweet too, and Joy is like her mom that way.

Pouring our tea with some cows and their calves behind my little red barn.

Farmgirl tea party complete with some cows and zucchini bread grandma found in the freezer.  

Rosary time on the porch reminds me of my father and I praying each day at 3p on my porch for the last 6 months of his life here on hospice.  

Dad very much enjoyed when the cows and calves came up to eat the grass around our barn, too.

They were up around the barn most of the afternoon yesterday.  

Curious white faced calf - it was hard to get a good picture as the grass is so tall.  Yes, the barn is in need of paint.  

 A cute red calf in the tall grass.

Cow peaking through the tall grass with ear tags in both ears - matching earrings I guess.  Yes, the fence needs paint too.  Some things are lower in priority on the farm with so much to do!  

Some pictures of Nancy's time with our nun during the Triduum in Kansas City - Lumen Christi Monastery/LIGHT of Christ.

I am going to have the chance to share about her life tonight with a dozen young women and their chaperones from The Saint Cloud Diocese, who are on a "nun run."  

They are staying at the Parsonage for the night and we are making them some of Verly beef hamburgers and then are sharing for half an hour about our Little Sister Hallel and her call to be a religious sister.  Fully professed Little Sister of the Lamb!  

Nancy and her youngest, Regina Maria, who is now 1 1/2 years old.  

I thought that the 105 Psalm from mass today spoke of the way these girls are asking the Lord to show them his plan for them, and are considering the wonderful option of being his bride as a nun!  

Glory in his holy name;
rejoice, O hearts that seek the LORD!
Look to the LORD in his strength;
seek to serve him constantly.
R. The Lord remembers his covenant for ever.  Psalm 105

The Grotto of the Nativity of Mary and Jesus is a place of healing and miracles!  

Yes, as a Sister, you truly seek the Lord always and "Seek to serve him constantly".  Little Sister Hallel is a contemplative nun, and each day she needs to receive her Bridegroom in the Eucharist and in the Word!  They spend 2 hours or more in Adoration each day after morning prayer and evening prayer.  Much of their prayer is sung - the sound of angels singing their LOVE and Praise! 

Family Soul Story - Choose Life!: Susan Angela Agnes/Little Sister Hallel - the story of a Call .   

Their humble yet heavenly monastery in the heart of the poor in Kansas City, Kansas.  We are so grateful that they have this foundation in the U.S. as there homebase is in Saint Pierre, France in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains.  

Down the hill in Kansas City from the Little Sisters is the Monastery of the Little Brothers, Light of Mary the Mother of God Monastery.  Their heavenly chapel!  

An American Little Brother David, who is blind and so amazing!  

Hallel showing us the Easter Candle made by Little Sister Judith.  We last were there the second Sunday of Easter in April.

Lumen Christi/LIGHT of Christ Chapel for Easter.  

Pat saying goodnight after night prayer in the Grotto in April.  We are making fake plans to go down there and help our military family move into their house on base in Fort Leavenworth.  We are so excited to have 2 of our daughters living half an hour apart for a year in Kansas.  Only 7 hours from our door to theirs!  

Tomorrow I will have so much to share about our time with the "nun run" girls tonight!  Thank you, Lord, for young women that are asking for your plan for each of them alone.  Jesus, we trust in you.  Amen and Hallelujah

Salve Regina - Hail Holy Queen as is sung at night prayer by Hallel and her Community - Dominican

Angels singing!  

4 years ago with 4 of our 5 children and our 18 grandchildren.  Our nun can only visit home every 3 years.  We have added 5 more grandchildren since.  Bless-bless, Barbara and the 34 plus many Little Sisters and Little Brothers 

Each day through Mary to Jesus.

LOVE!

"The Farm" when mom and dad bought it in Milltown, WI  to get their large family out of the city for the summer in the early 70s

The finished product - we had no running water - just a pump outside.

St Irenaeus, pray for us. 

This picture literally tears my heart out!  To see how much that child in our womb loves us and I them!  O Lord, how did it ever come to be accepted to take the innocent life in our wombs?

Help us our Spiritual Mother of heaven and earth!  

9 years ago in Michigan... my heart aches for our family time there on the Inland Sea of Lake Michigan.

Brother Victor on St Irenaeus - good to know.

Speaking to those that break off from the True Church.  

 

 "For this is why the Word became man,

and the Son of God  became the Son of man:

so that man, by entering into communion

with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship,

might become a son of God." - St Irenaeus

 

"(Christ) has declared the cup, a part of creation,

to be His own Blood, 
from which He causes our blood to flow; 
the bread, a part of creation,

He has established as His own Body, 
from which He gives increase to our bodies.”

 

St. Irenaeus

Nee Smyrna ~ 125-202 AD

Disciple of Polycarp
(Polycarp: disciple of St John the Apostle)

Bishop of Lyons, Father of the Church

Theologian, prolific writer

Masterpiece - Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies)*

*(Detailed refute on teachings of Gnosticism)

Against Heresies is source of the quote above

Feast Day - June 28

 

 

"One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten 
from the Church.  For in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed
all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life. 
She is the door of life." - St Irenaeus

Danielle Rose is amazing and so Catholic!