Jesus, all for Jesus☀️🙏🏻

Everything we say and do is through Jesus, with Jesus and in Jesus. Amen

Twenty years ago, just after moving into our compact humble cottage, we sat around one night, my guys I do life with and me. They were busy planning much needed repairs, should ever any money come our way. I was in my own world not taking part at all until one of them blurted out; ‘First thing we’ll do is take that picture down’ and of course I sprang into action. ‘He is going nowhere’, I replied, referring of course to our wonderful Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

They got me!! Again!! To this day we laugh about it. Yes, repairs have come and gone, guys are grown, and still thank God, our Sacred Heart picture remains where first it touched down. Our compact cold cottage, once an igloo, is now an incubator. We have been truly blessed.

Today is the beautiful feast of Sacred Heart of Jesus. When I reminded Ruairi of today’s exalted feast day, adding, ‘He’s going nowhere’. Ruairi’s reply; ‘Ha, He certainly isn’t’.

The joy of the Lord is our strength, always has been, laughter got us through many many hard times, by winding means, enveloping us like a cozy blanket as the thunder rolled. We are beyond grateful.

                              ‘Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God’. (Leon Bloy)

             ‘It is better to be a child of God than king of the whole world’. (St. Aloysius Gonzaga)

After Holy Mass every morning I go outside discarding water (not Holy water) left over from Holy Alter. One parishioner asked me if I was blessing the folk outside! When I told another parishioner what she asked me, she replied roaring laughing; ‘You’re crazy but you’re not that crazy’. 😂

Dear lady upset and confused about oh so many things. We sat in the Holy Oratory awhile in silence and then, impromptu, her beautiful face lit up as she uttered, face aglow; ‘Isn’t He just georgous!’ gazing lovingly on beautiful Jesus. Yes, for sure, children and folk enduring dementia, see Jesus with unvarnished clarity!

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