ash wednesday tomorrow

Dear Friends... check the mass times tonight and make sure that you and your family attend mass and receive your ashes as we begin this time of reflection.  God Bless Us All!!!!

Our Lady of Lourdes

Thank you Blessed Mother for visiting us through St. Bernadette at Lourdes! And thank you for your healing miracles that continue to flow from that apparition sight!  Please remain with Pope Benedict today as he struggles with his role as Pope.

"For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary.  For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible."

Happy day in Napa

May God Bless all marriages and families!!! Amen

Trust and Be Inspired - St Paul Miki

Martyrs of Japan, today a new era has come for the church in Japan.  Although the number of Catholics is not large, the Church is respected and has total religious freedom!

"Since Jesus, the Son of God, manifested his charity to laying down his life for us, no one has greater love than he who lays down his life for Christ and his brothers. 
Though few are presented with such an opportunity, nvertheless, all must be prepated to confess Christ before men, and to follow him along the way of the cross through the persecutions which the Church will never fail to suffer."

God Bless us all!

St. Agatha pray for us

Prayer that St. Agatha proclaimed as she was being arrested,
"Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires.  Possess all that I am - you alone.  I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil."  And in prison:  "Lord, my creator, you have protected me since I was in the cradle.  You have taken me from the love of the world and given me patience to suffer.  Now receive my spirit"

Pray for us... AMEN

Saint Blase

Yesterday was the feast day of Saint Blase!  I love the Catholic ceremonies and the ceremony of blessing our throats on St. Blase day is one of my favorites:)...

"Through the intercession of St. Blase, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from ailments of the throat and from every other evil.  In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" AMEN

Christ Light

"Christ himself says, 'I am the light of the world.' And we are the light, we ourselves, if we receive it from him... But how do we receive it, how do we make it shine?...The candle tells us: by burning, and being consumed in the burning.  A spark of fire, a ray of love, an inevitable immolation are celebrated over that pure, straight candle, as, pouring forth its gift of light, it exhausts itself in silent sacrifice" (PaulVI)

You are pure light.... AMEN