Happy Birthday, Liam!!

Here's the birthday boy happily opening his presents!!

Here is Liam at age 1!!

Easter pictures

Sunday morning we went to visit Peter, Leah, Ethan and Owen and had breakfast with them.

Then we went to visit Calvin, Maisie and Elizabeth. Adam was working.

Then we went to visit Paul, Renee, Zachary, Liam and Keegan at Betty's house. Paul was outside talking to his dad.

Then I got a picture of both Paul and Renee.

Then we finally visited Jim, Amy, Evan and Sophie just before their dinner with family. Then Dick and I went to play the par-3 and have dinner at the Olive Garden. Came home so I could finish homework and Dick could watch golf. Happy Easter all!!

Easter: Sunday, April 4, 2010

He is risen!! Happy Easter to all!!
"God exists: that is the real message of Easter. Anyone who even begins to grasp what this means also knows what it means to be redeemed." (Pope Benedict XVI)

Triduum: Holy Saturday April 3, 2010

Humans have so much "in common with the stones of the earth...existence, life with the trees and plants, sense with animals, and reason with angels." (Fr. John Tauler, O.P. (1361)
We humans because we have reason get caught up with the thinking of the world because its noise and beliefs are so loud and constant. It is when we take time in quiet each day, morning and night, that we discover the truth, the answers we need to live a full and holy life. Jesus taught us simply that night before he died. He said that he came to serve, not to be served. If we believed this simple ideal then husbands would serve their wives and wives would serve their husbands and by these examples children would serve their parents so parents would desire to serve their children. A life of service and love makes us whole and complete. Otherwise we always seem to feel that something is missing and we then look for that missing piece in all the wrong places. So this day before the glory of the risen Christ, take time to pray in silence and solitude and take time to serve others well!
God bless!!

Happy Birthday, Calvin!!!

Calvin turns 11 today! Happy Day!!

Calvin at age 1!! Love you!!

Triduum: Good Friday April 2, 2010

We are living in a world that lives by the moral code that if you believe something to be right, it is. Another name for that is "moral relativism." We are daily bombarded with information, decisions, feelings, justifications, etc from outside forces that form us and move us as the ocean forms and moves all that it touches on its borders. But inside each one of us is a force that is more powerful than the world. We must agree to open ourselves to its presence. God lives! God loves!! He desires only good for us. But we in our mindless subjection to the forces of the world find ourselves thrown into the depths of despair or anger or resentment or envy or any other dark and lonely ideal that comes from believing in the fantasies of the world. We want what we want and are unhappy if we don't get it whether it's we ourselves striving for it or our dependence on another to give it to us. It is sad to see when all we need is the truth to set us free from the demands of the world. Open your hearts and find true freedom which comes only from your creator's great love for you!! And in finding this freedom we find the peace that is beyond our understanding and we walk the way of justice and truth. He dies on the cross today! Is there any love greater? For He did not die because you and I are perfect! He died because we are sinners and He desires to bring us all to Heaven.
God bless!!

Triduum: Holy Thursday, April 1, 2010

It seems that some of us are drawn to sinners and some of us are drawn to saints. Our lives are changed by the choices we make. In companionship with sinners we can choose to follow their ways or reject them. In companionship with saints we can choose to follow their ways or reject them. Though we are all sinners we are all called to be holy as Our Heavenly Father is holy. This is what Jesus teaches us. Today choose to follow those who seek a life of holiness and reject Satan and all his lies!
God bless!!