A Great day to call your grandmother!

After reading to Buck and Honeybee about Saint Anne in
 Once Upon a Time Saints

this morning and reading the book that Hoenybee just had to hear



before we watched Mass on Ewtn, I decided to call and talk with my grandmother while I fixed up a big batch of Ramen noodles for lunch :)

I'm so blessed to have known all of my grandparents even a set of great-grandparents!  May we all remember to turn to good Saint Anne, our heavenly grandmother, with our prayers and petitions.  We can ask her to pray for our decesed grandmothers today too!

Have a blessed day!

Feast of Saint Benedict

Today we as we honor St. Benedict I am reminded of the St. Benedict Medals hanging in the four corners of our home. A dear friend of ours shared this devotion with us years ago.

Our home has been blessed, more than once, by dear priests.

We need our homes to be places of peace and prayer - Domestic Churches.

Evann over at Homeschool Goodies shares this awesome prayer with us.

Prayer To St. Benedict

O glorious St. Benedict, sublime model of all virtues, pure vessel of God’s grace! Behold me, humbly kneeling at thy feet. I implore thy loving heart to pray for me before the throne of God. To thee I have recourse in all the dangers which daily surround me. Shield me against my enemies, inspire me to imitate thee in all things. May thy blessing be with me always, so that I may shun whatever God forbids and avoid the occasions of sin.

Graciously obtain for me from God those favors and graces of which I stand so much in need, in the trials, miseries and afflictions of life. Thy heart was always so full of love, compassion, and mercy towards those who were afflicted or troubled in any way. Thou didst never dismiss without consolation and assistance any one who had re-course to thee. I therefore invoke thy powerful intercession, in the confident hope that thou wilt hear my prayers and obtain for me the special grace and favor I so earnestly implore (mention it), if it be for the greater glory of God and the welfare of my soul.

Help me, O great St. Benedict, to live and die as a faithful child of God, to be ever submissive to His holy will, and to attain the eternal happiness of heaven. Amen.

Saint Benedict ~ Pray For Us!