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update.. I am totally functional and appear to be doing well. I've had a bit of progression so I started a new med.. so.. life goes on.  Yes, I am involved in lots of music right now.. Confirmation in addition to the upcoming Easter and Lenten liturgies.. I love it.

Kay_G

Funny to read your comments about Catholic School.  I am a product of 13 years of Catholic school (starting with kindergarten).  I graduated high school in 1980.  There was a huge change some where a long the line while I was going to school.  I have an older brother and sister who are 10 and 11 years older than me.  They went all through school with boys and girls separated.  I never did.  And apparently only learned about the new testament.  I remember my mother being shocked by how much time we spent studying the old testament.  And, of course, we never read the Bible on our own, too much danger that we'd misinterpret it.  But, I must say, I think I got a pretty thorough religious education.  Maybe ignorance is just bliss for me.

tinkertude

Hi ladies... I am a product of catholic school too 12 years and my kids are as well both in hs .. I had the old fashioned nuns the ones that terrified you... my kids have very very few if any clergy teaching them now... that is a big difference I noticed...

looking forward to prayers tonight..

crazy busy day!

Namaste !

theresap60

Well Sheila, I remember watching the movie a long time ago ... as soon as you described it, I could picture it, but I splatted on the title, so I cheated and looked it up ... Frank Capra's Lady for a Day?  I was kind of surprised to see the cast... I was thinking Apple Mary was Bette Davis or someone more "famous".

I thought you were mixing up Betty and Apple because of the dessert!   Isn't there an Apple Brown Betty?  Now I'm getting hungry for something appley.

Mary - I'm happy to hear you are doing well.  "Totally functional and appear to be doing well" is about as good as it gets! ;-)

I was telling this to Skip on the way home and we laughed, but you gals probably can relate.  I was sitting in my office minding my own business waiting for the HP man to come and bring me my new laptop. My desk faces the door and next to the door is a full-length frosted glass window.  I heard someone outside my door and saw a cart being pushed up in front of the glass.  For a brief second, I had a PTSS moment.  I thought that cart was a gurney pulling up next to my room ready to take me to surgery!!!  Oh, it gave me a fright!  I had to laugh at myself when I recovered... it was the HP guy bringing an empty cart to take away my old computer.  It's amazing how the mind can play tricks on us for absolutely NO reason.  I wasn't thinking about BC or surgery or anything like that.  I was getting ready for the HP guy.  Just when you think you have all your marbles, you have moments like that that tell you otherwise! :-)

Here is a nice tidbit from Bishop Fulton Sheen to provide us some food for thought!

"Which stands up better in a crisis - man or woman? The best way to arrive at a
conclusion is to go to the greatest crises the world ever faced, namely the CRUCIFIXON
OF OUR DIVINE LORD. When we come to this great drama of Calvary there is one fact
that stands out very clearly: Men failed. On the other hand, there is not a single
instance of a woman's failing him."

-Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

"See" you all tonight for prayers.

JanetinVirginia

apple brown betty is my all time favorite!

see you later tonite

JanetinVirginia

I'm here a little early as having trouble keeping my eyes open tonight.  I'm saying prayers for the specific intentions that were requested the last few days and for each one of you.   

JanetinVirginia

Lord, keep us close to You this Lenten season and send the Holy Spirit to guide us in all we do.  Amen.

DiamondGirl

I'm here, just got back.  I'll try to type a prayer real fast.

Please pray for my mom, Terry for her improved health.  Amen.

squidwitch42

I am here

sas-schatzi

me too Sheila

tinkertude

im here too

DiamondGirl

Dear Lord,

Give me a pure heart for You, Lord.  Place in my life a genuine goodness that comes from Your mercy as I face hurt, let me find ways to share a spirit of fellowship, faith, and love with others.  I want the great things to shine so brilliantly that they distract me from my pain.

This time in my life once felt like a time of slumber, of closing, of restriction. Only now am I seeing that it is a time or renewal, creation, opening, and abundance. May I keep my heart in this place of awareness and awakening so that I do not miss what You are sharing with me.

Amen.

- One minute Prayers for Healing

Rennasus

i am here

DiamondGirl

let me know when to start

theresap60

Prayers for Sandy, Debbie's Mother and family, Kay, Kay's brother, Maria's friend Julie, tsunami victims, Paula's Mom....

Ready

Rennasus

yes, let's pray for everyone in Japan...

sas-schatzi

Theresa I was thinking of the movie "Pocketful of Miracles " with Glenn Ford. So now I have to go to Imdb and check.-----ahh it was Apple Annie?

JanetinVirginia

adding prayers for the Japanese for we are all brothers & sisters in the human family.

squidwitch42

Lord,

Simply said, Thank you.

Blessings for ALL of my Sisters, in various places in our journeys. I pray for prosperity and happiness in all endeavors. Please grant us the opportunities to grow and live. Special intentions for all that we may have enough for food on the table, shelter, clothing, and health care. Please God, hear our trials and give us solutions and opportunities. Block all those who have ill intent, and turn their ire back onto them. Let us shine in our lives, show confidence when before we may have felt fear, and I pray that our ever widening circle of Sisters clasp our hands together in solidarity.

Amen.

JanetinVirginia

Amen Traci

DiamondGirl

Amen.  Thank you sisters for praying with me tonight

tinkertude

Amen

Lord gives us the courage and knowdledge to help others. Allow us to open our hearts so that we can help others open theirs. Hear our intentions and let your will be done...

squidwitch42

yes, prayers for our brothers and sisters in humanity, and Lord please contain and stabilize all nuclear facilities affected by the Earthquake.

May rescue be swift for those in need, protect those who are going in to help the stricken.

sas-schatzi

While Paula's typing ---lets write the best thing that happened to us this week----For me I realized I need more Choas in my life

Of course I'm so disconnected My mind slipped on the choas for so many in such a large part of the world. Hmm forgive for the transgression

Rennasus

Amen! (not to more chaos but to relief from all anxiety for all!)

JanetinVirginia

Sheila - seeing my first daffodil of the season bloom

squidwitch42

May I add a prayer for a wonderful Nurse LizAnn, whose passing I have only just heard of? She and baby were lost a few years ago, but her smiling face and wonderful spirit live on.

squidwitch42

ah, Janet...you are our gardener I say we all garden together this year if we can..

squidwitch42

and for our Laura, who is having struggles, may she know we have a place to come and pray together from her faith.

theresap60

Day and night I cry to you, my God.

You are in our midst, O Lord,
Your name we bear:
do not forsake us, O Lord, our God! (Jeremiah 14:9a)

From homily by St John Chrysostom, bishop
Prayer stands before God as an honored ambassador. It gives joy to the spirit, peace to the heart. I speak of prayer, not words. It is the longing for God, love too deep for words, a gift not given by man but by God's grace. The apostle Paul says: We do not know how we are to pray but the Spirit himself pleads for us with inexpressible longings.

Protect us Lord as we stay awake; watch over us as we sleep,
that awake, we may keep watch wtih Christ, and asleep, rest in his peace.

All-powerful God,
keep us united with your Son
in his death and burial
so that we may rise to new life with him,
who lives and reigns forever and ever. - Amen