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What a beautiful day!
I especially like the longer hours of daylight. I am grateful, too, for the rains we’ve
received. I will be continuing to pray
for seasonable rain throughout the growing and harvesting season as well as for
protection from damaging storms. I know
the damage hail can do in a very short time.
Once a farm girl, always a farm girl.
Tomorrow is the Feast of St. Isidore, The Farmer. My little prayer book,, MAGNIFICAT, says,
“Isidore was a pious layman who would pray for long periods while guiding his
plow. He often spent holidays on
pilgrimage to local shrines. There are
legends about angels assisting him in his farm labors. He was caring towards animals and generous to
the poor. Isidore’s wife, Maria de la
Cabeza, is also a saint. He is patron of
Madrid, of Farmers and of rural communities.”
Let us all pray to St. Isidore for farmers and all growers of food. I remember my Dad talking about praying as he
cultivated corn or drove round and round the fields in his haying and grain
planting and harvesting work.
Last week we celebrated our health service leaders—Sisters
Caroline Stoltz, Latona Kalis, Loretta Bloch and Loretta Denfeld. We are grateful for all they do to care for
the sick and keep us healthy.
Sisters some of their experiences as volunteers in the places they’ve worked the past 9 months. From past experience, I know they have been well received in the work they do.
Tomorrow evening we will have a Volunteer Appreciation meal
to thank all the many volunteers who work here at the Convent, assist at
Clothes Review, in the Convent Gardens and all the other places where they
work. We are most grateful and pray for
you every day.
Wednesday afternoon we will have a farewell gathering to
thank Jennifer Basch for her nearly 10 years of service both as Volunteer
Coordinator and Health and Rec Director.
She and the two boys will be moving to Colorado where her husband has a
new job. Thank you for your services,
Jennifer.
On Thursday we will gather to thank Sandy Katzenmeyer for
her 21 years of services as a nurse in Clare Residence. She has helped take good care of all of us
Sisters who have needed her help in these many years. Thank you, Sandy. We will miss you.
We have Spring Music recitals again Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. If one gets bored around here,
it is their problem.
Last Tuesday I attended a program at the Great River Arts
Center. I was the lucky winner of a pot
of three beautiful blooming Orchid plants.
This is an easy plant to care for—“give them 3 ice cubes once a
week!” I can handle that. And Sundays will be the “ice cube” day.
Peace and blessings,
Sister
Mary Lou
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