What a beautiful three days this past weekend!  I was touched by Fr. Jeff's talks and now I will study St. Paul more carefully.  I was not able to purchase many of the books the Daughters of St. Paul had on display, but I'll order some I've been thinking about very soon.  God bless each and everyone who was present.  Even though I was not able to personally visit with everyone, their presence during these three days of prayer fill all of us with many blessings.  God Bless the Pauline Family and especially the Holy Family Institute.  Buzz.

This Gospel reading is very interesting to me.  It first of all gives the genealogy of Jesus starting with Abraham and ending with Joseph, the husband of Mary 'Of her was born Jesus, who is called the Christ.'  In his homily this morning, Fr. John talked abut the genealogy and why we read it year after year on the Feast of Mary's Birthday.  I've often wondered why we read this list of names, most of whom I've never heard of, except once each year.  Fr. said that  it's given to us to remind us of the humanity of Jesus.  He said that we all can relate to Jesus as God, but we mostly forget that Jesus was human like us, with all our frailities except sin.  He further said that some of the characters listed in this list of Jesus' ancestors were not the best folks at that time.  Even David's line was passed down through a woman who was the wife of Uriah, one of his generals who was killed so that David could marry his wife.  That brings me to the conlcusion that we need to understand that Jesus is really human like us and that he understands when we fall because of our weaknesses or faults.  After the gospel gives the list of Jesus' ancestors it tell us that Joseph and Mary were betrothed, but Mary was pregnant before they lived together.  Joseph was going to divorce her quietly, but an angel told him that the baby was to be born and would save his people from their sins, Joseph also gives us an example of living in the presence and grace of God, because he accepted the angle's word at face value, as we should also accept God's Designs in our lives and live by them.  May God be Blessed and may He be better known through the Pauline Family.  buzz.

I thought the Psalm after the first reading was so beautiful today.   Psalm 67 is one of the most beautiful psalms in how it talks of the mercy of God and how we as the Body of Christ must wait patiently for His Glory to shine.  We, the people of God are certainly blest in our love of Him and our patience in waiting for His Will to be done not only in us, but in all creation.

All powerful and ever-living God, you raised the sinless Virgin Mary, mother of your Son, body & soul into the glory of heaven.  May we see heaven as our final goal and come to share her glory.  We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever & ever, Amen.

Such a beautiful prayer to Our Most Blessed Mother, Mary, assumed to heaven.  Oh holy Mother, help me to live my Pauline committment to serve & love Jesus and proclaim Him to all nations.  I pray for fortitude in serving Him and I totally abandon myself to His Will.  Be my mother and helper in this work for Jesus today and always.