Monday, May 20, 2024

Unexpected family time for Rita/Welcome Ordinary Time - Mary the Mother of The Church/The Truth =JOY! - with one accord to prayer -+JMJ+

Maria arrived from Kansas during the wake for Rita, and Magdalene found her Bumpa.  We were all together except for Major Joseph, who held down Fort Leavenworth and Hallel in France.  That means that there were 31 Pat Verlys there to show our love and support to Ed and family.  Aunt Rita was a big part of their lives as we shared our farm life with them.
I helped a friend and took the first hour of Friday for Adoration.  It was the first hour since Rita passed on Sunday to pray with Jesus in the Monstrance.  Tears and deep prayers with my Lord and Lady.
Shannon sent this picture of a prayer card that Rita had in her purse from her mother's passing in 1962 when Rita was 8 years old.  In her purse for 62 years!  
Shannon read this beautiful prayer as she ended a most amazing Eulogy as we then began the mass of burial.  "Jesus and his Blessed Mother have woven for her a crown of everlasting glory."  Amen

Today is the beautiful Feast of The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of The Church...We turn to her especially when we experience the Cross, knowing that she is "standing by."  Jesus establishes a relationship between his holy Mother and all who are united to him, that is, the Church.   We too behold our Mother, for she is the Mother of all who live the new life of grace. 

Gospel Jn 19:25-34

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother
            and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
            and Mary of Magdala.
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved,
            he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”
Then he said to the disciple,
            “Behold, your mother.”
And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.  

Yes!  She brings peace, love and JOY into our homes!  

Josphine, who is named for St Josephine Bakhita holding 1 year old Lucy Marie, whose name means LIGHT and Mary!  
Birdie Barbara at Rita's wake - she has an old fashioned name and is my namesake!  
The line wrapped around the church for the entire time.  She left us so quickly and unexpectedly.  
John's 3 kids and some of the cousins of Pat and Ed.
As you enter to sign in.
Josephine and Evangeline are 6 months apart... 8 and 7
Paying our last respects before the mass of Christian Burial 
Big brother Augustine is loving towards his little sister, Regina Maria - Queen Mary.
Two grandsons - David Librande and David Lanoue serving at the mass for Rita on Saturday morning

Rita Verly Funeral - Saturday, May 18, 2024 at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church (youtube.com)  

Praying for his Godmother, Rita, together in our first hour of Monday overnight.  We had looked up a prayer to St Gertrude to assist her to Heaven.  Hear our prayers, O Lord and Lady.

Therese with her cousin friends Rose and Berna.  No ice breaking needed when they see each other - immediate happily sharing.
Water wings for these two - they are 6 months apart and it is fun to see them getting to know each other and enjoy time together.  Tom is also in their group along with little Lucy and older Birdie.
The cows up by the house eating the grass along the path to the pasture at sunset.
Handsome young men dressed for mass yesterday morning.  David is 14 and Gus will be 13 next week.  Playing the war games from the military family.  David makes games too.
Nancy's 6 before going to 8a mass yesterday.  Pat was out in the field, but we made it to Mary's Baccalaureate Mass at 6p.  It rained just 2 hours before we would have had all the beans/crop in.  
Military family minus Major Joseph here and before they got to mass - Pentecost Sunday and the end of the Easter Season.  Now on to Ordinary time!  
Bobbi with her Lucy Marie dressed in red for Pentecost - Come Holy Spirit!  With 3 year old Maggie and 2 1/2 year old Gina with the green pastures behind.
These girls will be cousin friends while they grow up in our big wonderful farm family!  Our motto we live by - Open to LIFE and raising LIGHTS!  
Family Soul Story - Choose Life!: Our marriage stories - "The world needs LIGHTS!"  
Little friends off to play in Ruth's beautiful play house that she built about 10 years ago together.  So much fun on the farm!  The cousins were sad to leave.  Until we see you again.  There is a First Communion in Aberdeen, SD - Evangeline Mary!  
Big Dave and Therese are just 6 months apart.  In July Dave will be 16 and join T.  They are both making the June TEC retreat!  So excited!  
Brad and Ed loading beans - we have all but a small amount planted and now we had half an inch of rain overnight, so still prayers to finish putting the crop in.
Maria driving the 7 hours back to Kansas.  In a couple weeks they will be moving to Fort Riley, KS adding about 2 hours to the trip.  We still foresee spending time with our 3 girls in Kansas as often as possible - Maria and Little Sister Hallel, who will be returning to Kansas City in the beginning of June.  She and her Community of the Lamb have been praying for Rita and family.
Shannon over to get some "kitten therapy".  She has always been a cat lover! 
Talk about friends - they are just 6 months apart and even closer than sisters, as they enjoy each other and never a fight or argument.  
7 year old Evie with her white kitten and a smile - she will be receiving her First Communion in a week joining Josephine, who had her's a few weeks ago.  Joy is also in the 7 year old group, and will have hers next year.  How we love to share The Sacraments.  

Those are some of my most fondest memories about Rita - sharing the Sacraments for Shannon and Nancy and John and Brad.  So nice to share that most important part of our lives - our Faith!  
Tom and Gina are just a month apart and it was so fun to see them sharing the many kittens they have - 14!  
That is a pile of sleepy kittens!  Now with Maggie, too!  Looks like Tom is surrounded by girls!  Two older and two younger in the cousins.  

The boy grandsons were quite a bit ahead of the granddaughters until these last ones - now we have 12 grandsons and 11 granddaughters!  Yes, we have 23 grandchildren!  Each one is a blessing from above!  LIFE is the greatest gift from conception to natural death!  
"These are my kittens!" says Tom and so they are, but he did share since there were too many for him to hold all at once.
The 3 boys in 6 weeks that went to France in their mother's wombs for Hallel's final vows in 2018 are all now 5 years old, and Birdie is 4.  They all stopped eating their yummy brunch breakfast, looked at grandma, and said "cheese" for my picture!  MY JOY!!!  

It gave me a lot of happiness to see them playing together so nicely!  
All of the kittens survived the weekend!  Gina wearing a sweet dress her dad got in China while he traveled for work with Cargil some years back.  Sweetness!  
See the wind blow the 2 girls in pink and blue!  
Wonderful 16 year old Therese with a cutie kitty!  She held baby Lucy in her arms sleeping through the entire funeral mass!  She is so wonderful with little ones.  As Ruth likes to say - "Maria would have a new baby and come home, handing it to Therese - "Look I had another baby for you."  "Thanks, mom!" and other than feeding she would change most of the diapers, dress and bath the baby more than her mom.  What a saintly loving of life girl she is!  
The light fixture over the sink - looks like a halo on her head and many times I think there should be!  So many prayers for our older grandchildren that are making their Faith their own!  That they will love Jesus, Mary and The True Church for their lives as they ask the Lord to show them the path he has for each of them.  I am reminded that embracing The Truth when all 13 of us came into The Church 53 years ago have given me total JOY with each new day!  A big part of that is Mary the Mother of The Church with me each day in the rosary and like the beautiful Feast day today!  Each day is filled with the JOY of Jesus in Word and Body and Blood!  

At the Baccalaureate Mass last night Father Denny's homily was wonderful!  He asked them to ask the Lord to reveal to them what he was calling them to - Religious life, Priesthood, Marriage?  I just sat there smiling and nodding my head.
A wonderful sharing today in The Magnificat about how we are given Mary as our Mother from Jesus!  

All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer,
            together with some women,
            and Mary the mother of Jesus,  Acts 1 is the first reading today and reminds us that Mary receives The Holy Spirit with the Disciples in the Upper Room!  
Sister Ida has some beautiful words for us! 
Today we return to wonderful Ordinary Time... Dad's well worn Prayer of The Church after being a Permanent Deacon for 44 years 

Family Soul Story - Choose Life!: The amazing story of the 13 becoming Catholic!  
Love this from dad today from Psalm 84... dad left me many special sharings in his prayer books.  Thanks Dad!  I am very aware that this was the window of my dad living with me 4 years ago - on hospice in my Farm Monastery for the last 6 months of his life!  

Family Soul Story - Choose Life!: Deacon Robert Cross - my dad on hospice in our Farm Monastery for 6 months - 4/16/20 thru 10/23/20  
Pope Benedict XVI daily meditations from my mom for today!  All about the Eucharist which comes to us from Jesus through our priests - "ordination"  Priesthood!  
Lily of the valley!  

Reminded today from St Mother Teresa of Calcutta that I need to keep the JOY we receive from Jesus in his Body and Word!  "Be careful not to lose your joy after receiving 'the truth.'" 
Mary hold us close to your Immaculate Heart.  Bless-bless, Barbara and all
Bishop Barron at the Eucharistic Congress over the weekend.  Eucharistic Revival!  

  The Blessed Virgin Mary,
Mother of the Church
Memorial
Instituted in 2018 for celebration
on Pentecost Monday
_____________________
 
"The veneration of the Virgin Mary has accompanied
the path of the Church from the beginning;
Marian feast days began to appear already
in the fourth century: in some the role of the Virgin
in the history of salvation is exalted; in others the
principal moments of her earthly life are celebrated."
Pope Benedict XVI

 
Prayer After Communion (Today's Liturgy)
Having received the pledge of redemption and of life,
we humbly pray, O Lord,
that, with the  Blessed Virgin's motherly help,
your Church may teach all nations
by proclaiming the Gospel and,
through the grace of the outpouring of the Spirit,
fill the whole earth.
Through Christ our Lord.
___________________________________________
 
"May the mother of Jesus and our mother,
always smile on your spirit,
obtaining for it,
from her most holy son,
every heavenly blessing."
St Padre Pio
_______________________________
 
“In an instant the Holy Spirit overshadows her,
making her a living ciborium privileged
to bear within herself for nine months
the Guest who is the Host of the world.”
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
 














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