Enjoying the Tea Party!

 

More from the 50th Celebration...

 Signing the guest book...

Enjoying photos from the past...

Look ... Regina found one of herself ...some 10 years ago!

Praying the Little Crown ... lighting our candles from Our Lady's... symbolizing our efforts to reflect her light and virtues in our world...

We crowned Our Lady at the end of each section of the Little Crown... and the three Sodalists who crowned her were a mother, daughter and granddaughter ... 3 generations of membership in our Sodality!

Our Beautiful Queen and Mother!

 

Just a few photos

 Our 50th (+1) Reunion Celebration went well on Sunday.  So many past and present Sodalists were able to attend!  We will have more photos and some memories to share soon ... but here is a start ... some photos of us getting things ready.  :-) 

Congratulations to our new Sodality Officers!

 At our meeting today, we confirmed the Officers who will serve Our Lady and lend their efforts to our group of Handmaids for the current year.  Officers are:

PREFECT - Sofie Vigil

VICE-PREFECT - Regina Ochoa

SECRETARY - Lola House

TREASURER - Cecilia Nevada

SACRISTAN - Ava Abel

CATHOLIC ACTION COMMITTEE -- Christiana Heaton, Natalie Gilchrist

LIBRARIANS - Kaila Heaton, Sairsha Heaton, Abril Larios

Hoping and praying for a wonderful year growing in likeness to Our Blessed Mother, and spreading her devotion in our world.

One great joy is that we have nine new members joining us this year. Deo Gratias!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Saturday, October 9th - Fatima Candlelight Rosary Procession - 6:30 PM (dresses; flowers)
• Sunday, October 10th - 50 +1 Anniversary/Reunion (wear dresses - no sashes)
• Noon SET UP 
• 2:15-4:15 celebration
• Monday, October 11th - Dress up Day for members attending St. Michaels Academy
• Thursday, October 21st - Advancement Ceremonies

50 Years +1 for Our Lady!

 Hoping many can join us!  Please invite moms, sisters, aunts and others you know who were former members!  More details forthcoming...

A Weekend Outing!

Thanks to the generosity of a kind parishioner, we are enjoying a weekend in Idaho on Lake Coeur d'Alene on this last weekend of May.  The home is lovely, the view gorgeous, the weather delightful, and the companions great!  Here are a few photos...

The view from our balcony

Our Shrine for Our Lady ... we crowned Her after rosary

The tall man behind us bought everyone ice cream on Friday night and got us coffee for the next morning!  We met him when we took a walk to the nearby marina after dinner. His name is John, and he is  a Catholic and had a priest who influenced his life in a special way. That's what made him want to do something special for us, he said.

 

At the Foot of the Cross with our Sorrowful Mother

 

At the Crucifixion, with our Sorrowful Mother

1. They are taking off Jesus’ own garment now, my child, the one I made for Him. The pain caused by the re-opening of the wounds is terrible. He is meriting grace for us to be detached from everything, at whatever cost to ourselves.

2. Listen, my child: they are hammering in the nails, yet He is praying: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” The next time you are deliberately doing something which you know He does not like, remember this terrible sound, and remember that it is you who are pounding in the nails. And try to forgive others as He has forgiven you.

3. They have lifted the Cross up now, and jolted it into the hole prepared for it. Mary leads me quite close, to stand with her while her Son is dying. She tells me to draw near enough to let the Blood drip on me, and she tells me to remember this every time I receive absolution: that I am close to Jesus, to Whom I have confessed my sins, and the Blood dripping from His wounds is washing them away.

4. While the soldiers and the crowd, and even the chief priests and scribes, are jeering and mocking Jesus, Mary tells me to make acts of contrition and love and reparation. “He saved others, Himself He cannot save,” they cry. Yes, it is true: He cannot save Himself, because He will not. Love prevents Him, love for me. My Jesus, I love thee. I will not sin again.

5. One of the thieves, who was only a moment ago blaspheming, is now making acts of faith and contrition, and asking Jesus to remember him when He comes into His Kingdom. Jesus answers: “This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise.” Mary points out that it is his act of perfect contrition which has opened Paradise to him, as it has done and will do for countless numbers who have never heard of the Sacraments, or who could not have them. It is because He would have all men to be saved that God has made the conditions so easy.

6. Jesus is now speaking to His Mother: “Woman, behold thy son,” and to John, who is with her: “Behold thy Mother.” John draws closer to her with the protecting air of a son. Jesus died that we might be sons of God and children of Mary. Son, behold thy Mother. I, too, draw close to her, for Jesus has given her to me, too.

7. Long we wait in the silence and darkness. Mary, I know, is pondering things in her heart, and I try to do the same. I cannot find anything to say, but it is enough to be thus close to Jesus and Mary. It is almost the ninth hour when Jesus breaks the intense silence, crying with a loud voice as though He were calling to someone very far away: “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” Mary tells me that He is feeling the pain of the loss of God, that I may never feel it.

8. Again Jesus speaks, “I thirst.” His Mother would love to quench that terrible thirst, but she cannot. His spiritual thirst, which is even more intense than the physical, she is quenching, and so is John. She tells me that I am helping to quench it too, by standing at the foot of the Cross and giving Him my love, my contrition, and my reparation. It is for these that He thirsts.

9. “It is consummated.” “I have finished the work Thou gavest Me to do.” It is His sixth word. And then, saying, “Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit,” He bowed His head and gave up the ghost. He has done everything that His Father planned for Him to do for my salvation. “Greater love hath no man, than this.”

10. Colloquy with His Mother and mine as we walk back from Calvary.