Palm Sunday brought us a special visit from a Very Special Priest Friend.

We were supposed to go to Mass in Columbus, but M threw up 15 minutes before we were to leave, so I took K and went to Mass here. After that fine “treat”, we came home and found that M was feeling a bit better and resting on the couch. We ate a quick breakfast then began to prepare for the visit of our Very Special Priest Friend (VSPF). In the mean time, Joshua went to the 11 am Mass (for which I owe him big time). Oh and we tried to get a hold of VSPF, but he was giving a retreat, and did not get our message. When he arrived, he was fine with staying for dinner.

Our visit was wonderful and the kids rallied and felt better by the time he arrived. K woke up from his nap and said “Is Father here!!??!!” and ran down stairs. M had to be coaxed to come down, but she did and had a great time sharing books with Father. C played around Father, but did not warm up to him until later, but that is that way she is with everyone new.

Father encouraged us in our decision to home school and that is always nice. We also talked of how “open” the world is now, with the internet. Hence, the reason our friend is called VSPF, so if he is Googled, I would rather this blog not come up and I am sure he feels the same way.

After a nice dinner, we took pictures, shown above, including, K, possible future priest. I have no idea how to make them bigger, but if you click on the, they will be full size. (Sorry for my ineptness).

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your eyes, for I have happy news to share. The Facefamily is welcoming another little one to our family! He/She should be making his/her debut in Mid-September.

The first trimester is long gone and mostly a happy memory. I felt bad for a few weeks then things went back to normal. I am on to week 14 and feeling great! We had our first Midwife appointment today and all is well with both the baby and myself.

The other Facekids are very excited. Nearly every day they climb on to my lap and talk with the baby. Faceboy has asked for a baby brother and likes to have us draw pictures of what the baby looks like. (Thankfully he doesn’t have too high of standards, as an artist, I am not).

Thank you and please keep us in your prayers!

**Edited to make sense**

Tonight I went to our parish mission and it was so awful that I had to leave early. We were told, by the mission priest,  that Jesus did not know he was divine until He all of a sudden had all sorts of scripture infused in his mind. Who the heck ordained this man? Who the heck lets him go out and preach lies to a uncatechized masses who do not know any better?

When I arrived home, after venting to my husband, I found this wonderful quote :

“By that blessed vision which He enjoyed when just received in the womb of the Mother of God, He has all the members of the Mystical Body continuously and perpetually present to Himself.” – Venerable Pope Pius XII

The rest of the article can be found here: http://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/incaa2.htm

Of course, I sat through that part, just taking it all in but I had to leave when he decided that it was time for all of us to “stretch”.  It was yoga, simple yoga, but yoga nonetheless.

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0275.html

Priests, lay leaders, listen up: The people of the church do not want fluff. We want true teachings. We want the hard truths. We want authentic Christianity. We do not want something watered down to make us feel good about ourselves. If we wanted that, we would join another church.

A  priest needs to  have respect and dignity for his office, it is not a stage, but a bridge between heaven and earth.