2 years.

Marking another milestone.  Thanks be to God for an even better year, full of much joy and laughter and changes for our good.  Praise Him, He truly is merciful - we offer Him ourselves and our lives.

"I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine."  Song of Songs 2:16

"With this ring I thee wed...in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."

"It takes three to make love in hearts~the Lover, the Beloved, and Love. What binds lover and beloved together on earth is an ideal outside both. As it is impossible to have rain without clouds, so it is impossible to understand love without God."
Archbishop Fulton Sheen

We wait in joyful hope.

Advent around our home...



The Advent Wreath; circle=God's eternity/liturgical cycle of the Church, greenery= sign of hope in winter, 4 candles=4 weeks of the Advent season, purple=penance, and rose=joy.



The Jesse Tree tells the story of our Lord's lineage. 
Mom made this beautiful one for us.



Counting down to His birth!



"And Joseph too went up from Galilee...to the city of David that is called Bethlehem...with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child." Luke 2:4-5



"We are waiting for our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; he will transfigure our lowly bodies into copies of his own glorious body." (Phil 3:20-21)

O Savior of nations, come into our hearts!

Hail Mary, full of grace.

Today is the beautiful feast of the Immacualte Conception - the day on which the Church celebrates Mary's arrival into the world free from that stain of original sin with which all other humans were born.  Of course, God would provide Mary, the Mother of God, with this grace, because of course, the Son of God should be provided with the purest and holiest of mothers.  We too were granted the priveldge of calling her our mother when our Lord, on the cross, gave her as mother to the human race, with the apostle John standing in place of all mankind..."Behold, your mother," (John 19:27)  How fortunate we are to have such a model of perfect obedience, humility, and love in her...she yearns to bring all of her human children closer to her Son.  Indeed the fastest way to Jesus is through His mother, and by giving her to us as mother, He shows that He does indeed ask us to revere, honor, and emmulate her.

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.