| Quote for the Day: One gets to know the Immaculate better through "humble prayer" than through "definitions and distinctions" . Saint Maximillian Kolbe |
Tuesday
Monday was Recover day..... a time out day to catch one's breath. Shelley decided to catch something else. Our phone. Seems that Sister Rita Louise was outside watering part of the garden and she took the phone out with her and laid it down in what she thought was a safe place. It wasn't. When she looked up Shelley was digging a nice hole to bury it.
This actually is not the first time that Shelley has grabbed the phone and run off with it. Just the first time she tried to bury it. Burying phones do not do good things for them, it doesn't say that in the manual but it's true. It also doesn't help if you take a few nice healthy crunches and munches on it beforehand.
It looks like we will be shopping for a new phone soon.
Oh, and lest anyone write and tell me that our dog should go to obedience school and be better managed? Shelley is an honor graduate of several obedience classes. And truly, she is pretty obedient "most" of the time.... just not "all" the time.
Blessings of Peace and All Good,
Sister Patricia
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Tasty Tip of the Week
from Barbara George
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Here’s a quick a pretty summer salad I borrowed from the CIA (that’s culinary institute of America).
The summer squash and zucchini are in full production, and what do you do with all of them you ask? When I was an intern, I took a tour of the Culinary Institute of America in upstate NY. We had a wonderful lunch with this tasty salad that is barely there in calories, high in fiber, and such a fancy way to make use of some of those vegetables.
Grate 1 cup each of zucchini, yellow squash and fresh carrots. Arrange red leaf lettuce on a small salad plate, preparing 4 individual servings. Arrange 1/4 cup each of the grated vegetables in 3 small mounds. Drizzle with balsamic vinegar and a light sprinkling of olive oil. Top with a fresh parsley sprig. Salad’s done! Your guests will think you fussed all afternoon.
Next week: fresh zucchini side dish Italian style!
Happy eating,
The Confession Connection Dad's Return by Jacqueline D. Henry - Carolina Shores, North Carolina In the summer of 1979, I was visiting my mother and father in Long Beach Island, New Jersey. During a conversation with my dad about the changes happening in the Catholic Church, he asked me if the prayers and format of the sacrament of reconciliation were still the same. My dad had not been to reconciliation in many years. We talked about the different steps: examination of conscience, initial blessing, telling how long it has been since the last confession, confessing our sins, receiving absolution, getting our penance, and making an act of contrition. We practiced the act of contrition several times until he felt comfortable. Later in the afternoon he announced he was going to church for a while. I asked if he wanted me to go along with him. He said, "No." He returned an hour later with a broad smile on his face, saying he was greatly relieved, "Do you know what that lovely priest did? When I was finished, he actually came out of the confessional, put his arms around me, and gave me the warmest hug." The next day my dad was beaming when he received Holy Communion. The End.... new story tomorrow A selected story from "101 Inspirational Stories of the Sacrament of Reconciliation." |
1 comment:
My Clancy is also an honor's graduate from obedience classes, but you would never know it. I guess that no matter how hard you try sometimes ,God made dogs to be dogs. Good thing that he gave us humans a soft spot in our hearts for them.
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