52 Needle Felted Ornaments

 

 

At the beginning of the lockdown I developed a closer and an even more special interest in our Blessed Mother Mary.

Certain prayers took on a more profound and deeper meaning.

I joined in the  Fatima Rosary Crusade, with a wonderful priest Father Pillari. This is a habit I hope I will not break. ( Please join us in praying together.)

 

Sometimes I would hear the Litany of Loreto prayed after the rosary. 

With so much time on my hands, inspired by the Litany and seeing as how I love to needle felt. I wanted to make a bunch of little Christmas ornaments. 

So, I counted the titles for Mary listed in the Litany and came up with 52. (Please note the number of titles vary from list to list. This particular list was from a handout I received from a local prayer group.)

1.)  Holy Mary ... pray for us

2.) Holy Mother of God ... pray for us

3.) Holy Virgin of Virgins ... pray for us

each title sank into my heart as I whipped up these fuzzy little do dads.

4.) Holy Mother of Christ ... pray for us

 

       As I was poking the wool and sculpting it into little shapes occasionally I would get distracted and sidetracked. My mind would wander away from prayer. That is when I would stop. Sometimes I wouldn't go back again for long periods of time. I spoke with my spiritual director about that and he said the evil one despises Mary. It became more challenging for me to finish my goal. With the help of the Holy Spirit I finished my project  last Sunday ... Pentecost Sunday.

 

       Since I had started this project,  all kinds of opportunities for spiritual growth came up. There was an online course with Fr. Donald Calloway  Consecration to St. Joseph. That was awesome and very educational to learn all about St. Joseph. Fr. Don is an excellent teacher. There's even a litany dedicated to St. Joseph too!  I'm not feeling like needle felting any more litanies for awhile ...just sayin' for prayin' ok?

 

       Also through my local church there's another online course. Our pastor, Rev. Michael Fitzpatrick is a no nonsense type of priest. Our Catholic Church needs more leadership like this. You can watch him teach if you click onto the link below called Faith Fostering livestream. He's a blessing to our parish in Hyannis, St Francis Xavier.

We're reading the book   True Devotion to Mary  It's written by Saint Louis De Montfort.

 This path to heaven following Mary is not new, but it's tried and true. Faith Fostering livestream:

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What is humility?

 

Divine Mercy 

Today is Divine Mercy Sunday.

This is my artwork.

inspired by the original.

"Jesus I trust in You."

Just would like to share with you a lesson that I learned about God's great mercy.

Imagine how much God loves you.

There is nothing you could possibly do that would keep God from loving you.

Now imagine that you are a glass.

God wants to fill your glass up with His grace and goodness.

That is how it should be.

But, sadly sometimes our glass is filled with something else.

Or maybe our glass is laying on it's side, unfortunately.  

Sometimes our glass is entirely upside down.

Those are the times when we flat out refuse God's mercy and love.

I can't imagine why anyone would refuse the Lord's love.

Then I look at what I did.

I refused Him.

There He was pouring out his love on me all the time but I chose to sin.

After my sin...did He stop pouring His love on me?

Never...He said... I will not abandon you.

So I empty my glass out and make sure it's standing upright.

Then and only then .... can God fill me up again with His loving grace.

Well, thank-you for visiting my blog.

I hardly ever get here myself nowadays.

Until the next time ~ 

Lord Jesus Christ Son of the Living God,

have mercy on me a poor sinner.

 Please fill my empty glass with all that is good.