searing heat
pours in the open window
while I clean
Monday, July 31, 2006
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Now I'm Married!
Today we had our marriage validated in the Church. There is nothing cooler than being able to marry your husband again after 22 years!
My sister and her family as well as dh's brother attended. The ceremony took place after our parish's 11 o'clock Mass.
DH played and we sang at the Mass beforehand. I chose Song of Joy, How Great Thou Art, Come My Way, My Truth My Life, Breathe and God's Blessing Sends Us Forth. It is such a privilege and blessing to be able to do that every week together, and it was especially rewarding to be able to do the music for the Mass that preceded our marriage validation.
As I was returning from communion, I was thinking, "I just took communion at my Wedding Mass!" Our son was an impromptu altar server as Father needed someone to hold the aspersory and aspergillium so he could bless our rings. DS stood up there, handsome in his suit and tie, complete with long hair and new earring, and I couldn't have been prouder. It was thrilling and rewarding to be able to have what and who were important to us play a part.
Our priest arranged to have a small reception at someone's home afterwards. The entire experience made me realize again that we are very blessed.
My sister and her family as well as dh's brother attended. The ceremony took place after our parish's 11 o'clock Mass.
DH played and we sang at the Mass beforehand. I chose Song of Joy, How Great Thou Art, Come My Way, My Truth My Life, Breathe and God's Blessing Sends Us Forth. It is such a privilege and blessing to be able to do that every week together, and it was especially rewarding to be able to do the music for the Mass that preceded our marriage validation.
As I was returning from communion, I was thinking, "I just took communion at my Wedding Mass!" Our son was an impromptu altar server as Father needed someone to hold the aspersory and aspergillium so he could bless our rings. DS stood up there, handsome in his suit and tie, complete with long hair and new earring, and I couldn't have been prouder. It was thrilling and rewarding to be able to have what and who were important to us play a part.
Our priest arranged to have a small reception at someone's home afterwards. The entire experience made me realize again that we are very blessed.
Now I'm Married!
Today we had our marriage validated in the Church. There is nothing cooler than being able to marry your husband again after 22 years!
My sister and her family as well as dh's brother attended. The ceremony took place after our parish's 11 o'clock Mass.
DH played and we sang at the Mass beforehand. I chose Song of Joy, How Great Thou Art, Come My Way, My Truth My Life, Breathe and God's Blessing Sends Us Forth. It is such a privilege and blessing to be able to do that every week together, and it was especially rewarding to be able to do the music for the Mass that preceded our marriage validation.
As I was returning from communion, I was thinking, "I just took communion at my Wedding Mass!" Our son was an impromptu altar server as Father needed someone to hold the aspersory and aspergillium so he could bless our rings. DS stood up there, handsome in his suit and tie, complete with long hair and new earring, and I couldn't have been prouder. It was thrilling and rewarding to be able to have what and who were important to us play a part.
Our priest arranged to have a small reception at someone's home afterwards. The entire experience made me realize again that we are very blessed.
My sister and her family as well as dh's brother attended. The ceremony took place after our parish's 11 o'clock Mass.
DH played and we sang at the Mass beforehand. I chose Song of Joy, How Great Thou Art, Come My Way, My Truth My Life, Breathe and God's Blessing Sends Us Forth. It is such a privilege and blessing to be able to do that every week together, and it was especially rewarding to be able to do the music for the Mass that preceded our marriage validation.
As I was returning from communion, I was thinking, "I just took communion at my Wedding Mass!" Our son was an impromptu altar server as Father needed someone to hold the aspersory and aspergillium so he could bless our rings. DS stood up there, handsome in his suit and tie, complete with long hair and new earring, and I couldn't have been prouder. It was thrilling and rewarding to be able to have what and who were important to us play a part.
Our priest arranged to have a small reception at someone's home afterwards. The entire experience made me realize again that we are very blessed.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
What are you saying?
When ds asked the inevitable question about getting an ear pierced a few years ago, dh said, "You can do it when you turn 18." Well, he turned 18 on Tuesday and got his ear pierced on Friday.
DH is still asking, "What are you saying?" by getting your ear pierced. We are still trying to convince him that the answer is, "I'm saying that I wanted to get my ear pierced."
DH is still asking, "What are you saying?" by getting your ear pierced. We are still trying to convince him that the answer is, "I'm saying that I wanted to get my ear pierced."
What are you saying?
When ds asked the inevitable question about getting an ear pierced a few years ago, dh said, "You can do it when you turn 18." Well, he turned 18 on Tuesday and got his ear pierced on Friday.
DH is still asking, "What are you saying?" by getting your ear pierced. We are still trying to convince him that the answer is, "I'm saying that I wanted to get my ear pierced."
DH is still asking, "What are you saying?" by getting your ear pierced. We are still trying to convince him that the answer is, "I'm saying that I wanted to get my ear pierced."
A very sad anniversary
It was twenty five years ago today that Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles of England. Who was to know that it would end as tragically as it did (except perhaps Charles, who had no intentions of giving up his mistress)?
Anyway, I got up in the wee hours of the morning to watch The Wedding, dreaming of my own wedding which took place 3 years later, on July 28.
The ironic words the Archbishop of Canterbury used to conclude his sermon on that day are haunting.
May the burdens we lay on them be matched by the love with which we support them in the years to come. However long they may live, may they always know that when they pledged themselves to each other before the altar of God, they were surrounded and supported not by mere spectators but by the sincere affection and active prayer of millions of friends.
A very sad anniversary
It was twenty five years ago today that Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles of England. Who was to know that it would end as tragically as it did (except perhaps Charles, who had no intentions of giving up his mistress)?
Anyway, I got up in the wee hours of the morning to watch The Wedding, dreaming of my own wedding which took place 3 years later, on July 28.
The ironic words the Archbishop of Canterbury used to conclude his sermon on that day are haunting.
May the burdens we lay on them be matched by the love with which we support them in the years to come. However long they may live, may they always know that when they pledged themselves to each other before the altar of God, they were surrounded and supported not by mere spectators but by the sincere affection and active prayer of millions of friends.
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