Thursday, March 28, 2024

A family flash event to celebrate Jude!//Triduum begins... Always a time sharing our Faith and Family - +JMJ+

A foot of fresh white snow in the bright sun streaming in the huge picture window at John and Bobbi's home yesterday.  Birthday boy, Jude, is 5 and sister, Birdie will be 4 in a month, and littlest sister, Lucy, is 14 months!  
At noon Jude's house was full of family!  Nancy arrived from Delano to pick up her 3 older kids and help her Godson, Jude celebrate turning 5.  Ruth came with most of her family, and grandma swung in after returning from MOW in Balaton.  Thumbs up for our special boy!  
Singing Happy Birthday with sister, Birdie Barbara, and Nancy's 2 youngest Gina, who is now 2 and George, who is 5 with Jude and Hector - 3 boys in 6 weeks!  
Lucy loves his blue raspberry cake!  
A sword and nerf gun - armed to the teeth seems to be what kids like these days.  

Bright and beautiful with our first snow of the winter at the end of March!  The farmers have been busy keeping the cows and newborn calves warm and dry.  We are approaching 100 calves of the 170+ we are due to have this spring.  A big busy job!  

Due to the big snow storm - Jude's birthday on the 26th had to happen with just his own family and mom's wonderful cupcakes.  Jude knew he was loved and special!  The next day his house was full of crazy big family to give him some crazy wonderful celebration!  
John's family for Easter a year ago!  Little Lucy was just 3 months old, and each one of these wonderful children are a miracle!  With John's brain cancer battle and all he had to go through to still be here today - he was told that he would likely have no children... Not the case in the Lord's plan for them!  LIFE is the greatest gift and for John even more so!  


John's Spirit Juice Video - now continues with wife and 3 precious children!  Thank you, Lord and Lady!  

A palm signifying that he have now entered Holy Week with Palm Sunday on Sunday.  I was finally able to get out to mass on Wednesday, and then take Eucharist to 3 ladies on hospice, and one of my MOW ladies in Balaton.  Such a special blessing to share Jesus with them!  
Today is Holy Thursday where Jesus gives us The Eucharist and washes the Disciples feet!  The Triduum begins!  There is no doubt that each one of our families in Kansas, Delano, France and here in Marshall will all be attending Holy Thursday services!  So powerful to be United in The Eucharist!  


Danielle Rose - See you in the Eucharist 

When dad and I would say the 5th Sorrowful mystery - The Crucifixion together - he would say these on 7 of the beads!  
Sayings of Jesus on the crossMatthewMarkLukeJohn
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.23:34
Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.23:43
Woman, behold thy son! and Behold thy mother!19:26–27
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?27:4615:34
I thirst.19:28
It is finished.19:30
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.23:46

HOLY THURSDAY
Institution of the Sacraments of Holy Eucharist and Holy Orders
 
 
“Consider, on your knees, the mystery of God’s love
for us, that He didn't want to leave us orphans.
 … For Christ knew our hunger for Himself.
He knew that we would be walking around in the darkness
of a thousand wars and miseries throughout this life. …

This is Holy Thursday.  This is when the Christ we are
talking about took an ordinary piece of bread and a little wine
and changed it into His Body and His Blood.
… Remember this day always, year after year: 
the day of Christ’s infinite love, when He went away
and yet He remained, in Bread and Wine,
and in the priest. …
 
In His immense love, Christ chose men who would
have His hands and His feet, in whom He could walk,
in whom He could forgive sins, who could lift Him up,
who could give us the sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist
– the Bread and Wine,
which He said makes for everlasting life! 
The incredible love of God is visible to us! ..."
Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Painting above: The Last Supper - Nesterenko, Vasily Igorevich

 
"Without the priest, the passion and death 
of our Lord would be of no avail.  
It is the priest who continues the work
of redemption here on earth...
Leave a parish for twenty years without a priest 
and they will end by worshiping the beasts there...
The priest is not a priest  for himself,
he is a priest for you."

"O, how great is the priest!...
If he realized what he is, he would die."
St John Vianney
Patron of all priests


Pray, pray , pray for our priests!
They rely on our prayers - we rely on our priests!
As Father John Hardon, S.J., once said, “praying and offering God
sacrifices for the priesthood are indispensably important,”
because “there is no Catholic Church without the priesthood.”
__________________
 
Prayer for Priests to pray today...
and tomorrow and everyday... 
 (St Charles Borremeo)
O holy Mother of God, pray for the priests your Son
has chosen to serve the Church. Help them,
by your intercession, to be holy, zealous, and chaste.
Make them models of virtue in the service of God’s people.
Help them be pious in meditation, efficacious
in preaching, and zealous in the daily offering
of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
Help them administer the sacraments with joy.
+ Amen +  
The Paschal Triduum begins with the Evening Mass In Cena Domini on Holy Thursday, continues through the Friday of the Lord's Passion, reaches its summit in the Solemn Paschal Vigil, and comes to a close with Sunday Vespers of the Lord's Resurrection - a full three days - evening Thursday through evening Sunday (According to the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar).

 Jesus may we follow you down the narrow path with our goal of heaven forever.  May I die to self so that  I may serve without counting the cost.  Washing the feet of others and putting their needs ahead of my own.  Jesus, we trust in you.  Bless-bless, Barbara and the 33 plus many little brothers and little sisters.

I have received word that our nun, Little Sister Hallel in in Rome with the foundation there to help with Holy week and Easter time.  They are up with special services for all that Jesus suffered during the Triduum.  I remember being there in years past and the huge fire they light in the early hours of Sunday - The LIGHT coming into the world!  

Holy Thursday ~ may we pour out our hearts, like this fragrant oil, in love ~ may we give the Lord our whole selves in gratitude ~ what is most precious to us in commemorating His amazing love for us. Be blessed this day! 🩷💛


 













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