Here is the latest news on Lenny who is trying to recover from the delivery of her baby girl which had many complications. The baby is fine and healthy. Lenny still needs lot of prayers and medical help. Here is the note that was forwarded to me.
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The surgeons were hoping the placenta would atrophy. It is not cooperating. Lenny is on a drug that has her pretty wiped out. They are watching her closely. My daughter visited her and told her that there are probably tens of thousands of people praying for her. She wept.
We are grateful to God for her baby's life. Now we need another effort to get her safely through this. She has been in bed for three months and would feel terrible even without complications. Please pray that she get healthy and home fast and that there be no permanent harm.
Thank you,
Bob
Sunday, April 10, 2011
New twist or old-fashioned throw back . . .
Just got some semolina flour, last week, so had to make pasta today. I don't have a pasta machine or anything fancy. I just get an upper body workout rolling out the dough with my own muscle power! I usually make the noodles with chicken soup but decided to use them like spaghetti pasta and top them with tomato sauce and spicy meatballs for dinner. Not sure if this is only new to me or if that's the way it was way back in old times Italy! Anyway, my husband perked up considerably to learn that it was just plain, old spaghetti and meatballs for dinner today.
The cooler weather has wandered off, again, and it will be in the 80's degrees area by the end of the week. It's my fault, the temperature change! I bought several types of flour for baking so, naturally, it would attract the hot temperatures where turning on the oven isn't a great idea. That doesn't mean, however, that I will NOT bake!
Very nice Sunday Mass. There are two converts preparing for their Baptism on Holy Saturday so we have a small ceremony each Sunday as they finish off their steps towards this sacrament and their welcome to the church.
Our friends were at Mass so we got a chance to catch up. There are six children in this family and the older son is at the seminary. He and I were both upset to discover that my son and I would be leaving on a trip the day before he arrives home for a break. To make it worse, he is going back to the seminary the day before we come home from our trip!
All in God's Own Time, I guess, although I wish I knew where to post my 'want' list!
The cooler weather has wandered off, again, and it will be in the 80's degrees area by the end of the week. It's my fault, the temperature change! I bought several types of flour for baking so, naturally, it would attract the hot temperatures where turning on the oven isn't a great idea. That doesn't mean, however, that I will NOT bake!
Very nice Sunday Mass. There are two converts preparing for their Baptism on Holy Saturday so we have a small ceremony each Sunday as they finish off their steps towards this sacrament and their welcome to the church.
Our friends were at Mass so we got a chance to catch up. There are six children in this family and the older son is at the seminary. He and I were both upset to discover that my son and I would be leaving on a trip the day before he arrives home for a break. To make it worse, he is going back to the seminary the day before we come home from our trip!
All in God's Own Time, I guess, although I wish I knew where to post my 'want' list!
Minimizing the trivial?
Someone on my chat line said she noticed a woman in her church, weeping sadly after Mass. When she went over to check on her, the woman sobbed, “The pastor told me he wouldn’t give me Communion if I knelt from now on.”
In another instance, someone is chastised because they don’t wear a chapel veil to church. Someone else is reprimanded because they do cover their head when they attend Mass.
My husband worked with the altar boys at our church. We got a lot of unsolicited advice to pass on to the boys. One woman cornered me and demanded to know why the altar boys weren’t kneeling to receive Communion when they served. Someone else says we have to do something about the boys who aren’t wearing black, shiny dress shoes to serve Mass.
Remarks are made behind people’s backs about the length of their dresses, criticized because they might wear slacks, maligned because they don’t care to wear jeans.
People seem to be watching each other rather than praying at Mass as they can tell you who stood at the correct time, who received in the hand, who was in the confession line again or who should be in the confession line in their opinion.
I had someone confide in me that she didn’t think a particular family said the Rosary together every evening like her family did!
Most of these people usually end their shared thoughts with, “We should really pray for them,” but do they? And how do they approach our Lord in prayer? Like the Pharisee - “Lord! See how I am doing right, not like those other people!”
There is enough confusion in the Church and the world these days. There is simply not enough room on the Throne of God for all of us to sit in judgement. As you read over the sampling of complaints and criticisms, you may notice a common thread - triviality. If the people perceived to be in ‘error’ would follow all the freely given advice to a tee, would it gain them Heaven? Would the person offering the ‘corrections’ earn a higher place in eternity because they took it upon themselves to judge?
I spoke to a pastor about the kneeling vs. standing for reception of Communion. He said he would never refuse Communion to someone just because they knelt. Why? Because receiving our Lord in the Holy Eucharist is not a time to deal with trivialities.
The long ago reasons for covering one’s head no longer really apply. Wearing a chapel veil is a private decision. Unless word comes down from Rome dealing specifically with this, you should enjoy and allow the freedom to chose.
Many times, the most dependable altar boys seemed to come from large families. If you haven’t dealt with the costs of clothing more than a couple of children, you can’t understand the tight budget many of us are on. To pontificate on what kind of shoes an altar boy wears, ignoring the fact that he is there and devout, isn’t productive and is hurtful.
Spending your time of Thanksgiving after Communion to check out the fashions or demeanor of your fellow parishioners isn’t going to further your cause for heaven. Nobody cares and if they do, they shouldn’t!
It all comes down to charity and obedience. Our example of obedience done in a charitable manner overcomes the trivialities. We won’t always agree but Jesus has informed us that we must all, indeed, love.
In another instance, someone is chastised because they don’t wear a chapel veil to church. Someone else is reprimanded because they do cover their head when they attend Mass.
My husband worked with the altar boys at our church. We got a lot of unsolicited advice to pass on to the boys. One woman cornered me and demanded to know why the altar boys weren’t kneeling to receive Communion when they served. Someone else says we have to do something about the boys who aren’t wearing black, shiny dress shoes to serve Mass.
Remarks are made behind people’s backs about the length of their dresses, criticized because they might wear slacks, maligned because they don’t care to wear jeans.
People seem to be watching each other rather than praying at Mass as they can tell you who stood at the correct time, who received in the hand, who was in the confession line again or who should be in the confession line in their opinion.
I had someone confide in me that she didn’t think a particular family said the Rosary together every evening like her family did!
Most of these people usually end their shared thoughts with, “We should really pray for them,” but do they? And how do they approach our Lord in prayer? Like the Pharisee - “Lord! See how I am doing right, not like those other people!”
There is enough confusion in the Church and the world these days. There is simply not enough room on the Throne of God for all of us to sit in judgement. As you read over the sampling of complaints and criticisms, you may notice a common thread - triviality. If the people perceived to be in ‘error’ would follow all the freely given advice to a tee, would it gain them Heaven? Would the person offering the ‘corrections’ earn a higher place in eternity because they took it upon themselves to judge?
I spoke to a pastor about the kneeling vs. standing for reception of Communion. He said he would never refuse Communion to someone just because they knelt. Why? Because receiving our Lord in the Holy Eucharist is not a time to deal with trivialities.
The long ago reasons for covering one’s head no longer really apply. Wearing a chapel veil is a private decision. Unless word comes down from Rome dealing specifically with this, you should enjoy and allow the freedom to chose.
Many times, the most dependable altar boys seemed to come from large families. If you haven’t dealt with the costs of clothing more than a couple of children, you can’t understand the tight budget many of us are on. To pontificate on what kind of shoes an altar boy wears, ignoring the fact that he is there and devout, isn’t productive and is hurtful.
Spending your time of Thanksgiving after Communion to check out the fashions or demeanor of your fellow parishioners isn’t going to further your cause for heaven. Nobody cares and if they do, they shouldn’t!
It all comes down to charity and obedience. Our example of obedience done in a charitable manner overcomes the trivialities. We won’t always agree but Jesus has informed us that we must all, indeed, love.
That's why we have an educational system . . .
Excuses, Excuses, Excuses. . .The following are excuses written by the parents of students in the Albuquerque Public School System to explain absences.
*Dear School: Please excuse John from being absent on January 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and also 33.
*Please excuse Johnnie for being. It was his father’s fault.
*My son is under the doctor’s care and should not take fizical ed. Please execute him.
*Please excuse Joyce from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday she fell off a tree and misplaced her hip.
*Ralph was absent yesterday because he had a sore trout.
*Please excuse Sara for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot.
*Dear School: Please excuse John from being absent on January 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and also 33.
*Please excuse Johnnie for being. It was his father’s fault.
*My son is under the doctor’s care and should not take fizical ed. Please execute him.
*Please excuse Joyce from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday she fell off a tree and misplaced her hip.
*Ralph was absent yesterday because he had a sore trout.
*Please excuse Sara for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot.
Always quotes . . .
How come these statements have been made but so few have learned from them? Even in the humor of them, there is a lot of truth!
"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."
-- Cullen Hightower
"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
-- Mickey Mantle
"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
-- James Thurber
"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."
-- Cullen Hightower
"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
-- Mickey Mantle
"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
-- James Thurber
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