God Bless Our Troops

Sunday, October 11, 2009

It's 28 degrees out this morning. I have a Harvest Home tester burning and the house smells wonderful. Harold and the guys went fishing and I'm fairly well caught up on stockings so I think I'm going to have me a quilting day, by golly!

I got home from church yesterday to find that Anna had dropped off some of the supplies she had bought for the making of the fudge. Piles and piles of white chocolate and peanut butter chips. Mmmmmm

There was a family wedding yesterday and Anna babysat little Maddie McDoogle. Of course that meant a photo shoot. Here are a couple of gems from last night.


I call this one "Let Us Pray."




It's a real challenge to get pics of her laughing because the camera has a delay. You almost have to anticipate the laughter. Anna did a good job.

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Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today the Church celebrates : St. Firminus, St. Tarachus and his Companions, Martyrs (+ 304)
Saint John Chrysostom : "You will have treasure in heaven"
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 10:17-30.

As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus answered him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: 'You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honor your father and your mother.'" He replied and said to him, "Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth." Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, "You are lacking in one thing. Go, sell what you have, and give to (the) poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." At that statement his face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions. Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!" The disciples were amazed at his words. So Jesus again said to them in reply, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through (the) eye of (a) needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." They were exceedingly astonished and said among themselves, "Then who can be saved?" Jesus looked at them and said, "For human beings it is impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God." Peter began to say to him, "We have given up everything and followed you." Jesus said, "Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.

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