Family Occasions, Speaking Heart to Heart

April 29, 2025 Getty Images Hello!  How is each and every one? What a providential time for this post today after Divine Mercy Sunday.  Deus caritas est!   God is Love and His love is shown in His Mercy. Jesus, I trust in You!  Jesus died that each one of us may be saved.  He loved each one of us even when you and I are sinners.  Greater love than His no one has!   And yet He is the one deserving of all love. May you and I learn to love and to be merciful as He is and you and I witness this in our own personal life.  Let us make time and provide occasions to make acts of faith, hope and love many times during the day.  Lord, I believe, increase my faith; I trust, strengthen my trust; I love, let me love you more and more each day!   St. Catherine of Siena Indeed! It is providential that today, April 29, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Catherine of Sienna, who refers to God as her mad lover. 29 April St Catherine ...

 April 22, 2025 Pinterest St Josemaria Institute First of all, please allow me to greet each and every one a Happy Easter!!! The Lord has resurrected as he said he would; life has conquered death.  Our Faith, Hope and Charity is confirmed, increased and ever alive! And we rejoice with our Lady during these 50 days of the Easter season as we sing or pray Regina Coeli with her instead of the Angelus . And secondly, Our Resurrected Lord has finally willed to take to Himself His Sweet Vicar on Earth, Pope Francis.   We attended Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord and received the Urbi et Orbi blessing from the Holy Father, Pope Francis, after which he waved with both hands bye bye and then went down around the square to greet the people who have waited for him to do so as announced.   He blessed children, kissed them along the way.   The Resurrected Lord has been generous with his children to have giv...

April 15, 2025 Hello!  How is each and every one? We are on the second day of Holy Week and looking forward to the Renewal of Commitment to Priestly service (Sacrament of Holy Orders), Last Supper of the Lord (Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist), The Passion, Death and Resurrection of the Lord in three parts: Liturgy of the Word, Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion. I thought it helpful for us to go over what we may already know about this Week, what we are celebrating together in these three days of the Holy Week.   On Thursday of the Holy Week the Church celebrates the Chrism Mass in the morning; the Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the evening; On Good Friday, the Church celebrates the Lord’s Passion; On Holy Saturday the Church waits at the Lord’s tomb in prayer meditating on his Passion and Death and on his Descent into Hell and awaiting his Resurrection. The Church abstains from the Sacrifice of the Mass, with the sacred table (altar) left bare until after the solemn...