Prayer to the Angels

O Holy Angels, come to our aid.
St. Michael, come with legions of holy angels to
occupy and surround our homes, our vehicles,
and whatever place we and our loved ones may be.
Surround us with your heavenly protection, and
drive far from us Satan and every evil spirit or
influence. Free us from every curse and bondage,
along with their effects, we humbly pray.
St. Gabriel, give us the strength of God.
St. Raphael, heal our woundedness.
All you Angels of God, under your heavenly
Queen, help us, defend us, and rescue us from
the snares of Satan.

Amen.

Thanks Vincenzo!

A big thank you to Vincenzo for designing my new blog header! Isn't it awesome? I love the detail. Vincenzo is amazingly talented and has designed so many awesome blog headers. Go visit him at Sancte Pater or Amentior.

Clarity

For most of this year I have been asking the Holy Spirit for clarity. There are so many movements in my heart that it sometimes feels a bit muddled and hard to discern where the Holy Spirit is leading me. It used to be I could keep so many things in my head and multi-task the day away and be successful at the tasks at which I endeavored. Now, I have a hard time accomplishing one task and I find myself being quite forgetful and scatterbrained. Part of this may be age (I am only 39 though!), part may be having 4 young children to care for, and part of this may be God leading me to depend on Him rather than on myself. The muddled thoughts in my head truly affect my heart. My Spiritual Director told me once to ask God to sort it out for me. When I do that, it is much easier to live the vocation God is asking of me, a vocation as wife and mother.

One way God has been giving me clarity is by speaking to me about the same thing in many different ways. Don't you love it when God does that? He pours out His Love on us by speaking to us through different people, movies, songs, Bible studies, homilies, books, prayers and the list goes on and on. Well, God has been opening my eyes to how the Holy Spirit can help me with this clarity thing in so many different ways. Once I began praying for clarity, this is how it all started.

Some friends and I were discussing the Gifts of the Holy Spirit earlier this year, but I admit I did not know much about these gifts. Then not too long after that I kept encountering different places where God was teaching me about His gifts to us through the Holy Spirit. And I was intrigued and thought are these gifts for me too or only for the very holy? And, YES, of course they are, and they are for each one of us; we must be receptive to His grace and these gifts are ours. And we are all called to holiness.

Wisdom...

Understanding...

Counsel...

Courage...

Knowledge...

Piety...

Fear of the Lord....

Then I just happened to find a blog post about a novena to the Holy Spirit asking for these gifts. And so I went a little deeper... Then this summer when we were visiting friends in Montana, I went to a prayer group with my friend, and the priest spoke about the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit and how these gifts will help us live out the Virtues, and that when we are living out the Virtues, that is when we see the Fruit of the Holy Spirit in our lives. And each one of the 7 gifts can help us to live out specific virtues, like courage may help with fortitude, counsel may help with prudence, and there is overlap too, but it all started to make sense. CLARITY!! I must say as soon as he began His talk, I was overcome by God's Love for me, by placing me at that place at that particular moment in time. My friend said that the priest usually never gives talks at this prayer group and that it was an unusual ocurrence.

When I see that God is speaking to me in a direct way like that it really makes me realize how He has His eye and heart on each one of us at all times. And He places on our hearts that which will guide us closer to Him. So, I went a little deeper..... and then I found out that the Mom's group that I belong to is doing a book study by Gina Loehr called Choosing Beauty, a book about living a life "infused with the virtues." CLARITY!! The Cardinal and Theological virtues...

Prudence...

Justice...

Fortitude...

Temperance...

Faith...

Hope...

Charity...

I remember many years ago doing a protestant Bible Study about the fruit of the Holy Spirit. I loved the Bible study, but was still was wondering why am I having such a hard time with so many of these Fruit of the Holy Spirit? Why do I not see this happening in my life? And now, CLARITY.

~ Charity ~ Joy ~ Peace ~ Patience ~ Kindness ~ Goodness ~ Generosity ~

~ Gentleness ~ Faithfulness ~ Modesty ~ Self-Control ~ Chastity ~

God has given me clarity and has opened an avenue in my heart to receive His gifts, to live His virtues, and to see His fruit. I still have a LONG way to go, but He has laid out a path and it is through His Holy Church. Praise be to God, I love You, and I love Your Holy Church. Mary, I give you my will, conform it to the will of Your Son. St. Joseph, protect us from the confusion of the world. In the Holy Name of Jesus, Amen.

Boys and Sticks

One recent afternoon, as I was just sitting down to enjoy a nice cup of tea and some quiet time (ha!), I heard crying outside. As opposed to the early days when I would jump at the sound of any crying, now when I hear crying, I have to measure whether or not to respond and decide if I should get involved or let it work itself out. Anyway, this crying sounded pretty urgent, so I put my tea down and got up to go and see what was going on (that was my first mistake).

When I got outside, our 4 year old, who never whines (yeah right), was crying and saying,
"Mom, Joseph is trying to shoot me with that stick!" So I said, "Joseph, why don't you play like your hunting or something and you are trying to shoot animals with your stick rather than at people." So, he says, "Okay! Let's go hunting!" To which our 4 year old says, "Okay, I'll be the deer!"

Some days I wonder why I even try :)

Blues Friday

Just because I love the blues and Stevie Ray Vaughan. I grew up in Texas and was able to see him in concert in Dallas. This is him playing Jimi Hendrix' Little Wing in a Fender promotion. Too bad I was too young to appreciate what a guitar legend he was when I saw him live:

Forgiveness

Having recently read Pope Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth, these words of the Holy Father still resonate deeply in my heart, and I want to share them with you. This is the part of the chapter where our Holy Father discusses the petition of "forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us" and how we encounter the mystery of the Cross of Christ in this petition (from Ch5 - The Lord's Prayer, pp 158-160, emphasis mine):

If we want to understand the petition fully and make it our own, we must go one step further and ask: What is forgiveness, really? What happens when forgiveness takes place? Guilt is a reality, an objective force; it has caused destruction that must be repaired. For this reason, forgiveness must be more than a matter of ignoring, of merely trying to forget. Guilt must be worked through, healed, and thus overcome. Forgiveness exacts a price- first of all from the person who forgives. He must overcome within himself the evil done to him; he must, as it were, burn it interiorly and in so doing renew himself. As a result, he also involves the other, the trespasser, in this process of transformation, of inner purification, and both parties, suffering all the way through and overcoming evil, are made new. At this point, we encounter the mystery of Christ's Cross. But the very first thing we encounter is the limit of our power to heal and to overcome evil. We encounter the superior power of evil, which we cannot master with our unaided powers. Reinhold Schneider says apropos of this that "evil lives in a thousand forms; it occupies the pinnacles of power...it bubbles up from the abyss. Love has just one form- your Son" (Das Vaterunser, p. 68).

The idea that God allowed the forgiveness of guilt, the healing of man from
within, to cost him the death of his Son has come to seem quite alien to us
today. That the Lord has "borne our diseases and taken upon himself sorrows,"
that"he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities,"
and that "with his wounds we are healed" (Is 53:4-6) no longer seems plausible
to us today. Militating against this, on one side, is the trivialization of evil
in which we take refuge, despite the fact that at the very same time we treat
the horrors of human history, especially of the most recent human history as an
irrefutable pretext for denying the existence of a good God and slandering his
creature man. But the understanding of the great mystery of expiation is
also blocked by our individualistic image of man. We can no longer grasp
substitution because we think that every man is ensconced in himself alone. The fact that all individual beings are deeply interwoven and that all are encompassed in turn by the being of the One, the Incarnate Son, is something we are no longer capable of seeing. When we come to speak of Christ's
Crucifixion, we will have to take up these issues again.

In the meantime, the idea of Cardinal John Henry Newman may suffice. Newman once said that while God could create the whole world out of nothing with just one word,
he could overcome men's guilt and suffering only by bringing himself into play,
by becoming in his Son a sufferer who carried this burden and overcame it
through his self-surrender. The overcoming of guilt has a price: We must
put our heart- or, better, our whole existence- on the line. And even this act
is insufficient; it can become effective only through communion with the One who bore the burdens of us all.

The petition for forgiveness is more than a moral exhortation- though it is that as well, and as such it challenges us anew every day. But, at its deepest core, it is- like the other petitions- a Christological prayer. It reminds us of he who allowed forgiveness to cost him descent into the hardship of human existence and death on the Cross. It calls us first and foremost to thankfulness for that, and then, with him, to work through and suffer through evil by means of love. And while we must acknowledge day by day how little our capacities suffice for that task, and how often we ourselves keep falling into guilt, this petition gives us the great consolation that our prayer is held safe within the power of his love- with which, through which, and in which it can still become a power of healing.

God, thank You for these words of the Holy Father. Please watch over him and protect him in his travels. Thank You for giving us a wise and holy shepherd. Jesus, thank You for Your Love and Mercy. Open our hearts to receive You and all You give us. Open our hearts to forgive as You forgive and to Love as You Love. In Your Holy Name, Amen.

Hail Holy Queen

How He Loves Us

Note: Original Post changed.

Oh my, so powerful:



Could listen to this over and over. Thank you God for good friends who pass this love along to us. In Your Name, Amen.

Thank you Adoring Angel!

This song reminds me of the powerful encounter we as Catholics have with Jesus at every Holy Mass, during Adoration of Him in the Blessed Sacrament, when we follow Him in Eucharistic Procession. He is with us always, but in these moments He is with us as Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.

God's Love is so wondrous and amazing that He humbles Himself to come to us in a tangible, incarnate embrace every time we receive Him in Holy Communion. This music is beautiful and the Holy Spirit is obviously present in this place where she is singing, but wow, I am amazed at How He Loves Us in the Holy Eucharist and how Heaven's gates are opened for us at every Holy Mass.

P.S. - Just ignore the yelling at the end of the video ;)

Litany of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows

Posting this for Our Lady of Sorrows:

Lord, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.
Holy Virgin of virgins, pray for us.
Mother of the Crucified, pray for us.
Sorrowful Mother, pray for us.
Mournful Mother, pray for us.
Sighing Mother, pray for us.
Afflicted Mother, pray for us.
Foresaken Mother, pray for us.
Desolate Mother, pray for us.
Mother most sad, pray for us.
Mother set around with anguish, pray for us.
Mother overwhelmed by grief, pray for us.
Mother transfixed by a sword, pray for us.
Mother crucified in thy heart, pray for us.
Mother bereaved of thy Son, pray for us.
Sighing Dove, pray for us.
Mother of Dolors, pray for us.
Fount of tears, pray for us.
Sea of bitterness, pray for us.
Field of tribulation, pray for us.
Mass of suffering, pray for us.
Mirror of patience, pray for us.
Rock of constancy, pray for us.
Remedy in perplexity, pray for us.
Joy of the afflicted, pray for us.
Ark of the desolate, pray for us.
Refuge of the abandoned, pray for us.
Shiled of the oppressed, pray for us.
Conqueror of the incredulous, pray for us.
Solace of the wretched, pray for us.
Medicine of the sick, pray for us.
Help of the faint, pray for us.
Strength of the weak, pray for us.
Protectress of those who fight, pray for us.
Haven of the shipwrecked, pray for us.
Calmer of tempests, pray for us.
Companion of the sorrowful, pray for us.
Retreat of those who groan, pray for us.
Terror of the treacherous, pray for us.
Standard-bearer of the Martyrs, pray for us.
Treasure of the Faithful, pray for us.
Light of Confessors, pray for us.
Pearl of Virgins, pray for us.
Comfort of Widows, pray for us.
Joy of all Saints, pray for us.
Queen of thy Servants, pray for us.
Holy Mary, who alone art unexampled, pray for us.

Pray for us, most Sorrowful Virgin, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray, --- O God, in whose Passion, according to the prophecy of Simeon, a sword of grief pierced through the most sweet soul of Thy glorious Blessed Virgin Mother Mary: grant that we, who celebrate the memory of her Seven Sorrows, may obtain the happy effect of Thy Passion, Who lives and reigns world without end,
Amen.


The Seven Sorrows of Our Lady

1. The Prophecy of Simeon
2. The Flight into Egypt
3. The Loss of Jesus in the Temple
4. Mary meets Jesus Carrying the Cross
5. The Crucifixion
6. Mary Receives the Dead Body of Her Son
7. The Burial of Her Son and Closing of the Tomb.

Consecration to Our Lady of Sorrows

Most holy Virgin and Queen of Martyrs, Mary, would that I could be in Heaven, there to contemplate the honors rendered to thee by the Most Holy Trinity and by the whole Heavenly Court! But since I am still a pilgrim in this vale of tears, receive from me, thy unworthy servant and a poor sinner, the most sincere homage and the most perfect act of vassalage a human creature can offer thee.

In thy Immaculate Heart, pierced with so many swords of sorrow, I place today my poor soul forever; receive me as a partaker in thy dolors, and never suffer that I should depart from that Cross on which thy only begotten Son expired for me.

With thee, O Mary, I will endure all the sufferings, contradictions, infirmities, with which it will please thy Divine Son to visit me in this life. All of them I offer to thee, in memory of the Dolors which thou didst suffer during thy life, that every thought of my mind, every beating of my heart may henceforward be an act of compassion to thy Sorrows, and of complacency for the glory thou now enjoyest in Heaven.

Since then, O Dear Mother, I now compassionate thy Dolors, and rejoice in seeing thee glorified, do thou also have compassion on me, and reconcile me to thy Son Jesus, that I may become thy true and loyal son (daughter); come on my last day and assist me in my last agony, even as thou wert present at the Agony of thy Divine Son Jesus, that from this painful exile I may go to Heaven, there to be made partaker of thy glory.
Amen.

Two Hearts Beat As One

Guess I'm in a U2 mood this week! Enjoy.

The Day After

Twisted, gnarled, bloody
Confusion everywhere
Despair lurking
Panic
Pain
Confusion again....how could this happen?
How?
Why?
Why is He who was here with us gone?

This ugly wood is empty now, where is He?
Bloody, broken, pounded, crushed

Intense loss, grief, suffering
How can this be?
Where is His love?

Lost, alone, and scared.
Where is He?
Where is His love?

This is not beauty, this is death, where is my Lord?

Then She tells me, He is here, He has not gone.
His Love is eternal. We have no power to overcome this evil.
Only He can heal by His forgiveness.

He has given himself to this bloody death for you.
He has overcome your sin, your guilt.
He has overcome the the guilt of the sins of your fathers.

We weep here at His Cross, we cry out in anguish.
He has overcome all by His Love and Mercy.
This is Beauty, You O Lord, have ravished my heart
by Your Love and Mercy. Your Cross has set me free.

by ks

Spiritual Warfare

I like to share things I find that are helpful in my journey. Here is a 4 part series by Father John Bartunek that I have found at Catholic Spiritual Direction on Spiritual Warfare. It is very informative:

Introduction to Spiritual Warfare - Part I

Introduction to Spiritual Warfare - Part II

identifying the enemy

Introduction to Spiritual Warfare - Part III

what is the devil up to?

Introduction to Spiritual Warfare - Part IV

getting down to action

Food Meme

Vincenzo has tagged me for my very first meme, a Food Meme! OK, here goes:

1. What food, even if you were dying of starvation on a deserted island, would you refuse to eat?

Rocky mountain oysters, YUCK YUCK YUCK!!! I guess technically these would never be on a deserted ISLAND but just in case this is on my DO NOT EAT EVAH! list.

My dear husband told me to put "soylent green" but I did not want to go there.

2. What is your favorite frozen dinner entree? (Mushroom warning for Vincenzo)

3. What is your favorite beverage? Hands down:
4. What condiment do you use the most? My favorite barbeque sauce, of course:

5. If you were a vitamin/nutrient which one would you be and why? Because it's nature made, of course! Actually, it is the only supplement I take so that is why I picked it. Plus it's amber colored and transparent!
6. If you were about to be executed for crimes against humanity what would your last meal consist of? OK, well this is where I could not get a picture, because, well, the pictures on the internet could not do this meal justice, and a lot of them were stuffed and all fancy, and that is not what I want.

I thought about calling grandma and asking her to cook it and take a picture of it and email it to me, but I realized that she has yet to take that internet class from that dear man who lives down the road, and she would have a really really really hard time figuring out how to 1. download the photo 2. email it, oh wait, let's try that again: 1. take the picture. 2. download the photo. 3. get into Outlook and 4. email it. My grandma is the smartest person I know, but she cannot use a computer and readily admits it! I love you grandma. Please Aunt Gina, you can tell her that if you read this, because I am almost 100% certain she is not reading my blog :)

What I would want is my beloved grandma's fried pork chops and mashed potatoes with creamy milk gravy (which she taught me how to make, but I still can't get it just like hers) and homegrown green beans cooked all day long on the stove (YUMMY!). Plus, grandma would love me even if I was going to be executed for crimes against humanity.

And then, I would have the best tiramisu ever ever made with a good cup of coffee (Mystic Monk of course - "Certain to be enjoyed by even the youngest and most discerning coffee drinkers.") :
Followed by a glass of Moscato:
I tag the following awesome bloggers to continue this meme if they so choose to!

1. Style Attic (can't wait to see the colors and pictures you choose!)
2. Victor
3. Daily Grace
4. Mary333
5. Owen

Encouragement from Friends

It has been quite the week! We were traveling last weekend and did not get home until Tuesday evening, so it felt as though the week was half over before we actually got started. Needless to say, we did not get a lot of homeschooling done this week. We tried on Wednesday and it was an unmitigated disaster! I had been planning on posting all kinds of stuff about our homeschool, but after this week decided that we really don't have it all together and maybe we never will.

Despite being perpetually undone/works in progress/not quite there yet, God is good and He is right here along with us, encouraging us as we go, even when we fall flat, or when we mess up. We may have to do a homeschool starting do-over (even though technically we started last week). Things are so different this year. Last year we ordered our books the beginning of June, we started a whole 2 weeks earlier than the local public schools, and we had our Family Rule set, schedules organized. This year, we didn't order the curriculum until the week before we needed it, we started almost 2 weeks AFTER the local public school (still do not feel like we have officially started yet), we are living in a new home, I can't even find our calendar anymore, and we still have a lot of unpacking to do. Whew! And now there are two children to homeschool instead of one. God, help me to trust You and Your grace to get us back on track. Thank You for always being here to guide us and for never abandoning us. Help me in my discouragement, and thank You for friends to help me along the way. In Your Name, Amen.

Oh yes! About friends, what this post is supposed to be about ;) . Through all this, I have been a little discouraged about blogging and kind of running into a wall about if I should continue or not, but God has provided several things these past few weeks to encourage me to continue blogging.

One is Mary333 over at The Beautiful Gate recommended this blog as a new blog to come check out! There have been quite a few more visitors coming here this week and I so appreciate you coming by to see this blog! Thanks so much Mary for your kindness. Check out her blog too. It is one of my favorites, along with her other blogs which you will see links to when you go visit her. And while you're at it, check out another new blog Crooked Halo as well. She was also recommended by Mary333. I look forward to visiting her blog even more in the future.

Another thing that happened is Vincenzo tagged me for my very first meme! I must admit that I was kind of feeling left out of all these meme things going on in the blogosphere, so I am thankful for being tagged finally! Vincenzo is a lot of fun, and I love to read his blogs Sancte Pater and Amentior that he does with swissmiss and Cathy_of_Alex. This is a food meme, and I'm working on it, so look for my answers coming up!

Thank you friends for the encouragement. God Bless!

I Will Follow

Just because I really really like this song:



Gosh, can't believe how young they all look!

A Longing from Within

Recently I was discussing the Extraordinary Form of the Mass with a friend. And it is interesting that even though I have never been to a Traditional Latin Mass, I have been drawn to more traditional rites within the Catholic Church. This longing is not really from any kind of external influence, but more from a longing that God has placed within my heart. It is not that I am unhappy with the Mass that I attend now, far from it, but that I desire to search deeper into the mystery of the Holy Eucharist and His Great Love for us in the Blessed Sacrament. The Holy Spirit works in amazing ways, and even though I know very little about the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, this desire has caused me to look deeper into our Catholic faith.

I was not raised as a Catholic or really with any type of faith upbringing. I am not sure if this is why God has placed this on my heart. I have really good friends on either side, some who prefer Mass as it is celebrated today, versus populum, toward the people, and in English and some who prefer the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. Either form is heaven on earth, and God's miracle, not ours. He comes to us intimately during Holy Mass, and reverence for Him in the Eucharist intensifies my receptivity to His Loving Embrace.

It is with this longing for tradition that I read a post entitled "Why am I So 'Into' the Extraordinary Form of the Mass?" by Fr. Christopher Smith at The Chant Cafe. (H/T Carlos Antonio Palad at Rorate Coeli). Fr. Smith was raised as a Baptist and had a longing for liturgy which brought him to a vocation as a priest. Whichever Mass you attend, his story is amazing and brought tears to my eyes, particularly his description of his pilgrimage to Chartres (emphasis mine):

The day after I graduated, I went on the famous pilgrimage to Chartres. On the middle day of the pilgrimage, we stopped in the middle of the forest for Solemn High Mass of Pentecost. The sumptuous procession of clergy, the active participation of thousands of young people singing with one voice the Latin
chants of all ages, it was all a great respite from our grueling walk. And then, after the Offertory, it started to rain. I expected the stampede to find cover, the complaining, a total abandonment of what we were seeing. Nobody moved from the place, except the Scouts, who unfurled linen cloths in neat rows and held them like soldiers holding the flag over a casket.

Priests came with the Blessed Sacrament accompanied by scouts with gold and white umbrellas for the color of the Pope and the Sacred Host. And, as the rain drove down hard upon our faces and drowned out the singing, everyone knelt in the mud, clutching the linen cloths, and received their LORD and God on the tongue with great devotion and love.

This was the faith that I had been looking for my whole life. This was that beauty, ever ancient and ever new, which ravished my heart and gave me strength. There in the mud in the middle of a forest in France far from home, I knew that my vocation was to be a priest, to bring the LORD of faith and beauty to others like those priests who came to the adoring throngs covered in dirt and grime in body, but in grace and charity in soul. And that experience was during the extraordinary form of the Mass. Could I have had a similar or even the same experience in another form of the Mass, or even at some other time? Of course. But God chose that time to reveal Himself and His plan to me in a special way, and for that reason I will always be linked to the liturgy and the people who have sacrificed to encourage its celebration.

Read his entire post here. Fr. Smith celebrates both forms of the Roman Catholic Mass and I am so happy that he shared his journey with us. It is really beautiful.

Litany of Our Mother of Mothers

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ graciously hear us.
God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God, have mercy on us.

Holy Mary, pray for us.

Chaste daughter of the Father, pray for us.

Chaste spouse of the Holy Spirit, pray for us.

Chaste mother of the Son of God, pray for us.

Vessel of election , pray for us.

Throne of the Divine Majesty, pray for us.

Tabernacle of the Divine Word, pray for us.

Chalice of the Divine Life, pray for us.

Mother of God, pray for us.

Mother of the Infant Christ, pray for us.

Consecration of womanhood, pray for us.

Hope of Christian womanhood, pray for us.

Model of Christian womanhood, pray for us.

Blessed in your motherhood, pray for us.

Inspiration of holy motherhood, pray for us.

Consolation of motherhood, pray for us.

Protector of motherhood, pray for us.

Blessing of all Christian motherhood, pray for us.

Exaltation of motherhood, pray for us.

Sanctification of motherhood, pray for us.

Queen of the Most Holy Family, pray for us.

Queen of chaste family life, pray for us.

Queen of mothers, pray for us.

Mother of happy delivery, pray for us.

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, spare us O Lord.

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Let us pray:

Cherished Virgin, heaven's Queen, chosen before all women to be the Mother of the Son of God, Mary, my Mother, who in your maternity so sanctified the state of holy motherhood, imploringly I come to you; humbly I beseech you; confidently I trust in you. I know that, by your powerful intercession, you can help me in my need. In you I take refuge, dear Virgin. Poor and needy, I turn devoutly to you and place all confidently in your hands. Accept my humble trust, hear my petitions, and come to my aid, dear Mother of mothers.

V. Behold, the handmaid of the Lord;

R. Be it done to me according to Your Word.

Give a Little Bit

Heard this song this evening driving around. Haven't heard it in SO LONG. I love this song!