weekend....

Am looking forward to the weekend...going to the BIG city of Oshkosh!  Business and play...and the drive should be good.

From Dorothy Day:  when you love people, you see all the good in them...all the Christ in them.  God sees Christ in us and so we too should see Christ in others....nothing else....and love them.

Great quote....wonderful idea...quite the challenge...but we try!

BLESSINGS.......  

Doing Something Right!

Cannot believe this!  On my first try....I got into my blog...SURPRISE!  MIRACLE!  Thank you, God!

Well, I have no great news to report re our weather...rain....rain...fog...fog...but we are not complaining after the winter we had.

CORPUS CHRISTI....we just celebrated this feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord....the Body of Christ....one of my favorite feasts.  I have a great devotion to the Blessed Sacrament....I owe this to my childhood upbringing.

In my reflections on this feast, we are reminded that we become what we receive: the Body of Christ.  We are FED with the BREAD OF LIFE...so then WE must be bread for all who are part of our lives.    We have the responsibility to nourish and build up this BODY.

How are you bread for others?  What did you do this week to nourish and build the Body of Christ?

Quite a challenge we have!  Best of luck and BLESSINGS........

Hispanic Youth Rally

What a wonderful experience!  About 600+ young people from the Hispanic parishes in the Archdiocese (Milwaukee) gathered at Cousins Center, Milwaukee.  They arrived in cars, vans, buses.  The last time I was in an all-Hispanic youth  gathering was years ago when the Milwaukee and Chicago Archdiocesan Vocation Offices sponsored a National Hispanic Vocation Conference...and we had all the trimmings!

Saturday we had music, dance, color....a sharing of Culture including a Marian ceremony.  It should have left the youth with a renewed sense of pride.

It was truly refreshing to mingle with these young people.  We continue to wish them well, commending them to the Lord to heal any wounds they carry, to give them a sense of pride in who they are, and courage to move forward with their dreams.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, cuida a tus hijos y hijas.

Still "high" from Pentecost

As I noted in my last blog....I LOVE Pentecost!  First how it happened....what followed....the Apostles all speaking in different languages....being understood by the various cultures...if only we had that today....we all "understanding" each other!  and THEN the courage and wisdom and strength the Apostles had to GO OUT AND SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS!

What a lesson for me...do I have the courage to GO OUT AND SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS?  And that, not necessarily by what I say....as St. Francis noted:  Preach, and if necessary use words!

In one of my reflections on spreading the Good News, the questions were: what do you do when gossip starts?  How do you handle someone using God's name disrespectfully?  How do you respond to anger, insults, unfairness?  Our everyday life...in the nitty gritty...that is where I prove my following of the Risen Lord.

The Holy Spirit of the eternal God has come.  S/He is here, s/he lives in us;  s/he sanctifies us;  s/he strengthens us; s/he consoles us.  S/He is the pledge of eternal life!  I pray you re FILLED with this wonderful Spirit and the seven gifts and twelve fruits!

PENTECOST BLESSINGS.........

PENTECOST! My favorite....

My favorite?  Not sure about that...but I LOVE the feast of PENTECOST!  The birthday of our Church.  The promise kept.  Never to be left orphans.  Never to be left alone.  Invariable inspired by the Holy Spirit.  Being indwelt by this wonderful breath of God. What more could we ask?

I wish you the blessings above....don't forget to wear red!

Do CELEBRATE these WONDERS!

If at first you don't suceed...

Try, try, try...again and again.  Not sure if it is I or ....but I have trouble galore each time I come to post.  Perseverance!

We are totally enjoying our WEATHER,,,,finally!  Praise the Lord for the last few days!

Today I just want to share a wonderful quote I found this past week:

Heal the past.
         Live the present.
                  Dream the future.

What a challenge!