Overwhelmed

Blogging seems overwhelming right now...
here's what has been happening: I went to the Indianapolis Catholic Women's' Conference yesterday. Then last night, Blake and I went to the church for a pot luck and a discussion and viewing of Fireproof. Today, friends from the parish threw us a going away open house. Tonight, we went to dinner with some good friends.

What is coming: Tomorrow - homeschool co-op, laundry, and cleaning
Tuesday - birthday, Mothers for Children, lunch with dear friends more cleaning
Wensday - any cleaning I haven't done yet
Thursday - movers box and MNO with homeschool co-op
Friday - movers load truck, stay at friends' house
Sat- last minute cleaning and stay at same friend's house
Sun - last Mass at OLMC and begin travels west

I will blog about all this later.

Special Prayer Requests

two family members... my godmother/aunt who has to have medical tests that could have bad results and a cousin of DH who is having renal failure. St Peregrin and St. Marina pray for us

A friend named whose baby is being induced tomorrow. St. Gerard, pray for us

For the doctors and health care workers - St. Luke and Sts. Cosmas and Damian

RA 5th Birthday

We had fun on her birthday but we celebrated the next day. Nana and "Blue Truck" came for a little party. And I think "Isabella" made out better than RA.

Someone needs to teach PG how to smile.

She has been asking for a robe for about a year now.Wilton's came release is mynew best friend and I love stripes ... but color mixing yuck and I am still trying to figure out how to make a true red with white icing.

Rejoice! Happy Easter

Rejoice heavenly powers! Sing choirs of angels! Exult, all creation around God's throne! Jesus Christ, our King is risen! Sound the trumpet of salvation!

Rejoice, O earth, in shining splendor, radiant in the brightness of your King! Christ has conquered! Glory fills you! Darkness vanishes forever!

Rejoice, O Mother Church! Exult in glory! The risen Savior shines upon you! Let this place resound with joy, echoing the mighty song of all God's people! It is truly right that with full hearts and minds and voices we should praise the unseen God, the all powerful Father, and his only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. For Christ has ransomed us with his blood, and paid for us the price of Adam's sin to our eternal Father!

This is our Passover feast, when Christ, the true Lamb, is slain, whose blood consecrates the homes of all believers. This is the night when first you saved our fathers: you freed the people of Israel from their slavery and led them dry-shod through the sea. This is the night when the pillar of fire destroyed the darkness of sin! This is the night when Christians everywhere, washed clean of sin and freed from all defilement, are restored to grace and grow together in holiness.

This is the night when Jesus Christ broke the chains of death and rose triumphant from the grave. What good would life have been to us, had Christ not come as our Redeemer? Father, how wonderful your care for us! How boundless your merciful love! To ransom a slave you gave away your Son. O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam, which gained for us so great a Redeemer!

Most blessed of all nights, chosen by God to see Christ rising from the dead! Of this night scripture says: "The night will be clear as day: it will become my light, my joy." The power of this holy night dispels all evil, washes guilt away, restores lost innocence, brings mourners joy; it casts out hatred, brings us peace, and humbles earthly pride.

Night truly blessed when heaven is wedded to earth and man is reconciled with God! Therefore, heavenly Father, in the joy of this night receive our evening sacrifice of praise, your Church's solemn offering. Accept this Easter candle, a flame divided but undimmed, a pillar of fire that glows to the honor of God. Let it mingle with the lights of heaven and continue bravely burning to dispel the darkness of this night!

May the Morning Star which never sets find this flame still burning: Christ, that Morning Star, who came back from the dead, and shed his peaceful light on all mankind,your Son who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.

Happy Birthday Pier Giorgio - Verso Alto!

"The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy."
“To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living, but existing.”

"You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be, so long as my trust in God gives me strength. We must always be cheerful. Sadness should be banished from all Christian souls. For suffering is a far different thing from sadness, which is the worst disease of all. It is almost always caused by lack of Faith. But the purpose for which we have been created shows us the path along which we should go, perhaps strewn with many thorns, but not a sad path. Even in the midst of intense suffering it is one of joy."

"With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can. Feed on this bread of angels whence you will draw all the energy you need to fight inner battles. Because true happiness, dear friends, does not consist in the pleasures of the world or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we have only if we are pure in heart and mind."

~Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati