The Pat and Barb Verly family and their 5 children, in laws and grandkids along with many prayer warriors have been drawn together by John's cancer... sharing daily for 8 months started this blog- Family Soul Story - Our faith, family, farm and now our cancer journey called HEALING have colored and deepened our world. WE continue to share and depend on the support of our prayer warrior community, that has lowered us into the Lord's presence for His healing!
St JPII how I love you!/Dad's 4th Anniversary of leaving this world for the next/"proclaim how exalted is his name." - +JMJ+
Ruth and her Tom, who will be 3 in a month. One of the baby kittens is fluffy and now grey and cute with his eyes open. I am sad to say that my Siamese from the farm is now missing for 3 days and I am losing hope...
Stopped in to see Ruth with her Tom for lunch after taking the hay rack over to the men, who are baling corn leaves that blew in the huge wind last week. "We will feed these to the cows because they really like the husks."says farmer Pat.
Always a new kitten to take the place of the cats I make my house cat. It seems that I fatten them up to be cayote food or something. To make myself feel less sad - I tell myself that someone coming by on the road sees a special kitty and picks them up.
Ruth has 7 children from Tom's Godfather, 20 year old Simon, to soon to be 3 years old Tom. I keep telling her that she is so lucky to have special Tom time now.
Yesterday was St John Paul II's Feast Day! When I think about the first 27 years of my marriage this man is huge for us! A few months after we married in 1978 he was Pope and he showed us the beauty of The Catholic Church and he is my hero for LIFE and showed us how to share our Faith in our Domestic Church/family!
This morning at Mass praying and sharing it with my dad on the Anniversary of his death here in my home on Hospice.
Dad showing emotion at the funeral mass we finally were able to have for his wife/our mom, Nancy Cross a day after her birthday and 5 months after her passing in a day after falling in the morning and breaking her hip. Dad lived 7 months after mom passed.
Dad with seven of his 10 living children at mom's funeral in St Croix Falls, WI where mom and dad lived the last 11 years together until the last few months in Assisted Living in the Lodge of New Hope.
4 generation - my brother Dan, with whom he shared a birthday, his son, Sam, and grandson, Joseph. A verse that came to dad...
Dad's positive thinking Gospel. Jesus loves us where we are at, but he loves us too much to let us stay there. We are called to be Saints!
LOVE this so much! It says how comfortable dad and I are with sharing our Faith in Jesus, Mary, all the Saints and The Catholic Church for 53 years! What a gift to share in his religious life for the last 6 months of his life here in my 'Farm Monastery." Thanks Covid for bringing my dad here!
Some of the grandkids at mom's funeral 4 years ago - July 18,2020.
Dad annointed by Fr Denny just days before he passed on this day 4 years ago. He was so ready to go on into Glory!
My brother, Al with wife and grandkids came to say goodbye to our dear dad just a few days before he peacefully passed from this world.
My sister, Cheryl, and her son, David with dad 4 days before he passed. He had warned us he was close and then came back to pray with me and say his goodbyes.
My sister, nurse Paula, arrived with her entire family and helped dad get into his hospital bed the next day. Dad earing a popsicle and smiling just 3 days before he peacefully left this world for the next. Paula used this special keepsake for her Christmas card a few months later! LOVE!
The first snow in 2020 on October 20th! Dad was not impressed nor were we! Thankfully this year we are having a beautiful fall day. They are even baling corn stalk bales today!
Dad's rosary and prayer book - I now have the prayer books of The Catholic Church he left behind after being a Permanent Deacon in the Church for 44 years after he brought our family of !3 into The Church in 1971!
Many times in his prayer books he underlined and highlighted to continue to teach me! He had a passion for Jesus's name! Today in the Psalm taken from Isaiah 12 dad is smiling in heaven...
Give thanks to the LORD, acclaim his name; among the nations make known his deeds, proclaim how exalted is his name. R. You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation.
Psalm from mass today taken from Isaiah 12
The springs of water also remind me of the scripture verse - Isaiah 55:1-2 which dad was reading when the Holy Spirit told him to come into the Catholic Church!
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. Isaiah 55:1-2
Dad got the 10 together for his funeral! We love and miss you dad! How we are blessed that you listened to the Holy Spirit direct our lives through you!
Truth!
My hero of LIFE and Domestic Church/Family!
Dad loved our home canning - Tomato soup and applesauce were most beloved, and he ate these the last few days he was with us. This is why we do the work!
This morning coming out of mass on the 4th Anniversary of dad's passing.
“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel. This confrontation lies within the plans of Divine providence. It is, therefore, in God’s plan, and it must be a trial which the Church must take up, and face courageously . . . “
Elsewhere he stated: “We must be prepared to suffer great trials before long, such as will demand of us a disposition to give up even life, and a total dedication to Christ and for Christ. Through your prayers and mine, it is possible to mitigate this tribulation, but it is no longer possible to avert it, because it is only in this way that the Church can be effectively renewed. How many times, indeed, has the renewal of the Church been effected in blood? This time, again, it will not be otherwise. We must be strong, we must prepare ourselves, we must entrust ourselves to Christ and to His Mother, and we must be attentive, very attentive, to the prayer of the Rosary.”
—Pope St. John Paul II
My sister, Marty, lives close by mom and dad's peaceful resting place and keeps it nice and special for them. Thanks, Marty!
Nancy sharing the joy she finds having her youngest of 6 home with her - Gina will be 3 in 2 months.
Mom and dad join me each morning at Mass! I see them with the eyes of my heart!
My brother, Dan, this past weekend at the Catholic Church in Manistique, MI where dad was a Deacon for 11 years.
I was blessed for 3 years with dad being a Deacon in Colman, SD! Just 90 miles from his door to my door. How I loved that time! Dad learned first hand what farm life was all about. LOVE you so much dad, and I know the prayers are flowing from heaven to surround your very large family. How we depend on those prayers of yours - first and middle name! Jesus, we trust in you. Bless-bless, Barb and the 33
"When confronted with the abyss of evil,
the only response is the abyss of love.
St John Paul II
"We must understand that in order 'to do',
we must first learn'to be', that is to say, in the
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