Author: Monica Jacobson (Page 74 of 152)

These boys were lucky to have the Jacobson Grandparents, Grandpa Gietzen, the Meyers and the Gietzen cousins at the Fair to support and encourage them in their first sheep showing.  The boys, and their mother, learned a lot!

Who’s your hero?

O models of pious and virtuous married persons, St. Joachim and St. Anne! Through the wondrous blessing with which God rejoiced you when He chose you as the parents of the ever blessed Virgin, the mother of our Savior, obtain for us, we beseech you, the grace to desire nothing but virtue and piety; that, in fidelity and love, we may share each other’s joys and sorrows, and together with our children lead such a life as to insure our entrance into the kingdom of heaven! Amen.

A dear friend just sent me this…

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”–St. Thomas Aquinas

Today’s Meditation:

“We must beg God constantly in our prayers to uphold us by His hand; we should keep ever in our minds the truth that if He leaves us, most certainly we shall fall at once into the abyss, for we must never be so foolish as to trust in ourselves. After this I think the greatest safeguard is to be very careful and to watch how we advance in virtue; we must notice whether we are making progress or falling back in it, especially as regards the love of our neighbor, the desire to be thought the least of all and how we perform our ordinary, everyday duties. If we attend to this and beg Our Lord to enlighten us, we shall at once perceive our gain or loss.”

—St. Teresa of Avila