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Danielle Bean » Mute Monks’ Halleluia

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Thank you Thank Danielle et al!!!!!!!!!!!!
I laughed!

Happy Thanksgiving All!

Very Grateful today for my husband and my kids.
Happy that I saw my sister Amy yesterday.
Glad I went to bed early after an hour on the phone with a friend.

The last month of both of us job searching has been exhausting and fun and frustrating and rewarding all at the same time. Now its time to pray about our priorities and, again, what is best for our family. Please say a little prayer of thanksgiving that we actually have a choice when so many are looking at a bleak holiday season.

Still praying and thinking over here.

Faith

Faith & Family Live! : Casual Fridays

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Where to see my Mom's other art!

Dorene invites you to visit
VALLEY HANDS Where Artists & Gifts Collide
We have an appealing selection of one-of-a-kind items handcrafted by local artists –
many of which are Cursillistas!

Diane Daigle – handpainted ornaments and watercolors
Terri Mariani, Barb Griffin, Kathy Tobin – Forget-Me-Not gift baskets
Dianne Murphy – watercolor and oil paintings
Dorene Pennell – floorcloths, Wish Art, note cards and prints
Jan Peters – pottery
Susan Rohm – wall and table vases using recycled materials
Roma Wilk – handpainted clothing and portraits
And many more . . .

OPEN Thursdays and Saturdays 12noon – 6pm
and 2nd Friday of Each Month 4-8pm for Meet the Artist Event
Chat with the artists, pull up a chair and Watch Art Develop

Mark your calendars! Artist demonstrations:
Friday, Nov. 13 – Mimi Lempart from Florence, Jasmine Thomas from Springfield and Ramiro Davero-Comas
Friday, Dec. 11 – Lisa Benson from Northampton, Susan Rohm from West Springfield and Shelly Dziubek from Amherst
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Thank you for your support, Dorene
VALLEY HANDS
Where Artists & Gifts Collide
342 Pleasant Street ~ Northampton ~ Park right out front
Exit 18 off I-91, head toward Northampton Center, we’re on the right just past Memory Lane Antiques
and before Keller Williams Realty. Look for orange awning.

Faith

Faith & Family Live! : Priesthood Sunday

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Anglicans, Welcome Home!

From a friend:

Anglicans, Welcome Home!
Pope Benedict has just invited the Anglicans into true communion, that is, communion with the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church! This is probably the best news I have heard all year!In a stunning move on Tuesday, the Holy Father issued a decree which created a provision allowing whole Anglican communities to become one with the Roman Catholic Church while retaining their own leadership and traditions. This move is unprecedented! In reality, it has been so long in coming, and I often wondered why acceptance of these willing communities was not done decades ago. Clearly, the progressive penchant for increasing "dialogue" and endlessly maintaining "diversity" made it impossible for them to switch sides, but now that barrier has been wiped away. It would seem that such willingness on the part of so many to rejoin the One True Church would be an opportunity of epic proportions for evangelization. Yet, it took a clear-thinking German Pope to reverse, in part, the damage that his countryman Martin Luther and King Henry VIII did to the unity of the Church almost 500 years ago.
It is said that as many as 50 Anglican bishops and their communities around the world have asked for union with the Roman Catholic Church. There is one group of traditionalist Anglicans who number between 400,000 and 500,000 members and are expected to be the first to take the leap. I pray that many more will walk through the doors that lead to full Catholic unity!
The real question is why anyone at all should stay in the Anglican Church. What is there to stay for? Anglicanism is basically committing doctrinal suicide, much the same way that England's population is about to implode due to their excessively high abortion and contraception rates and their hedonistic culture. All of that culture rot, of course, is symbiotic with the Anglican rebellion against traditional morality which slid precipitously from Henry's heresy to a homosexual hierarchy in a few short centuries. I am glad to see that some Anglicans are not taking it any more. Many have now realized that the only place they can find the unadulterated (no pun intended, Henry...) Truth is in the Church that Christ founded to be the "pillar and bulwark of truth" (1 Tim 3:15) for all ages. Those who stand on the Rock of Peter have solid footing for answering all the most important issues of any day. The holy English martyrs must be rejoicing in heaven knowing that they did not shed their blood in vain!
In order to "manage expectations," however, we have to let the Anglicans know that they will not enter a perfect Church by any means, just a True Church, but that is the reality of this human institution with a divine soul. They may meet some who are still mired in the relativistic morals they thought they had left back in London. They may meet others who work precisely against the teaching of Christ while remaining within our chanceries. They will find a Church that badly needs a leadership overhaul and a good scouring of the Temple, but more important than any other consideration is that they will be in Christ's Church and they will now strengthen us in our fight for the Truth! We can only be overjoyed at their entrance. Their orthodoxy will amplify the voice of traditional Catholics hopefully enough to drown out the voices of dissent with our ranks. May the entrance of the faithful Anglicans serve as example of authentic faith to all who belong to our Lord!
Now I have a request for all faithful Catholics who love unity. Whenever we hear of those from the Anglican Communion returning to the Church that Christ founded, please seek them out and give them a hero's welcome! I have already written to the community of Anglican nuns in Maryland that recently embraced the Ancient Faith, and it was such a joy to do so! Let us thank them and tell them how inspiring their journey is to us who were born into this Church. Their entrance into full communion reminds us of the precious gift we have been given in the authentic Catholic Faith. Let us also assure them that they are welcome in the Church to which Christ promised the very keys of the Kingdom of Heaven!
Sincerely,
Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer,
President, Human Life International
http://www.hli.org/index.php/component/acajoom/?act=mailing&task=view&listid=2&mailingid=678

The Bears have new homes!

My mother's bear raised $900 for local art programs.

All Saint's Eve

St Stanislaus invites you to join the San Damiano Youth and MorningStar Adoration group for an All Saint's party.
Where: School Gym
When October 31st
Time: 6PM Youth Mass followed by party 7-8:30
Wear: Saint/Bible Character or story or animal from the Ark
Cost: $1 per family plus one or more bags of candy depending on how many children you bring. ( May bring a snack for the sharing table. Money goes towards drinks.)
Want to help set up? 4:30 PM!
To volunteer or ask questions call Joe Strain 788-4342

How life has changed:

My Dear Husband is THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unemployment is tough. The first two weeks you spend doing so much paperwork its hard to look for work: applying to unemployment, re-applying when they tell you to apply in CT not Mass, updating your resume, checking on health insurance etc. Jeff received his layoff the day before we left for our vacation with his parents. That meant spending 3 days on the telephone helping customers who preferred him to handle their account, telling good friends who might be in a position to help, talking with coworkers who were upset. He surprisingly--(no I'm not surprised, they were) it was Jeff doing the calming.

After about 6 weeks of contacting every business he knew and several interviews the reality set in. He's required to apply to a certain number of jobs each week but there just are not that many out there. After a while a job search just doesn't take your whole day. In all I saw about an hour of self pity and then he was back to being his innovative self. He joined Facebook. He's joined LinkedIn, a social networking site for business people. He created a website that showcases his ideas about business in general-- not just print-- as well as his photography, oh, and his resume.

First week of school he spent the afternoon keeping the kids busy with outdoor activities so I could deep clean, pull out fall clothes etc. Second week he watched us school and by the third week he was really keeping us moving. When I had the opportunity for two weeks of temp work he was ready to roll. Everyday school was done and the house was clean and I came home to DELICIOUS food.
He joked that someday he'll be a good wife for some woman-- I said he already was!

Anyway he really is the best! The kids have a newly energized person teaching them. I am confident when I leave for class, work, or pre-practicum-classroom-observation that everything is OK. Best of all I can see how happy he is! He has always been someone who respected my work as a Stay at home mom and homeschooler so he can stay positive seeing himself in that role. He's even going to help my sister keep her little boy out of daycare! Baby Jimmy will hang with Uncle Jeff starting Thursday. (He's a sucker for babies!)

Life is Good!