Thursday, September 23, 2021

Fine Antique Lace, Linens & Textiles

 


















Vintage Fashion

 












Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Secretary going on business trip.

 The boss calls his secretary and says, “Get ready for the weekend, We are going on a business trip.”

The secretary calls husband and says, “Me and my boss are going on a business trip for 2 days so take care of yourself.”

The husband calls his girlfriend and says, “My wife is going on a business trip come home we can have fun.”

The girlfriend calls the boy to whom she gives tuition, “No tuition this weekend.”

The boy calls his grand father, “Grandpa at last we can spend this weekend together.”

Grandpa (The boss) calls his secretary and says, “Business trip is cancelled

I'm going to spend weekend with my grandson.”

The secretary calls husband, “I won't be going.”

The husband calls his girlfriend, “I am sorry My wife is not going.”

The girlfriend calls boy, “You have tuition.”

Boy calls his grandpa and says, “Sorry grandpa I've classes.”

The grandpa calls secretary….

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Sunday, September 19, 2021

My visit to Fatima, Portugal where the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to three shepherd children from May through October 1917

 


In 1916, on three separate occasions, Lucia dos Santos, and her two cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, began reporting apparitions of an angel in the region of  Vallinhos.  According to the children, these blessed visitations began on the 13 May 1917 when, while tending their family's sheep in Cova da Iria, they said they witnessed the apparition of what they later wholeheartedly believed was the Virgin Mary, and began doing penance and self-sacrifice to atone for sinners. Many flocked to Fátima and Aljustrel to witness these declared apparitions along with the children, but not before the children were jailed for being politically disruptive.  These visitations culminated on the 13 October 1917 public Miracle of the Sun event, the children imparted that the apparition of Virgin Mary divulged three secrets to the children. Although the Miracle of the Sun marked the children's last claimed apparition, the region of Fátima continued to be a destination for pilgrims 



Victims of the 1918 fly pandemic epidemic, both siblings, Francisco died on 4 April 1919 and Jacinta Marto died on 20 Feb 1920.  Along with the Three Secrets of Fatima, their stories and that of Lúcia, would be linked to religious construction that followed in Fátima. A small chapel, the Capelinha das Aparições  (Chapel of the Apparitions) was started on 28 April 1919 by local people.  





Incorrupt body of Jacinta Marto
One of the three little pastors that the Virgin Mary appeared
in Fatima in 1917. Jacinta Marto died in 1920 at only 9 years old,
years later after exhumation in 1935 his body was still incorrupt.


Body of Saint Jacinta Marto incorrupt



Papa Giovanni Paolo II with Lúcia, she lived 97 years.

(28 March 1907 – 13 February 2005)


Final resting place of Jacinta and Lúcia



Final resting place of Francisco



Two doves on his grave stone.



THE SERENITY PRAYER

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE;
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN;
AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME;
ENJOYING ONE MOMENT AT A TIME;
ACCEPTING HARDSHIPS AS THE PATHWAY TO PEACE;
TAKING, AS HE DID, THIS SINFUL WORLD
AS IT IS, NOT AS I WOULD HAVE IT;
TRUSTING THAT HE WILL MAKE ALL THINGS RIGHT
IF I SURRENDER TO HIS WILL;
THAT I MAY BE REASONABLY HAPPY IN THIS LIFE
AND SUPREMELY HAPPY WITH HIM
FOREVER IN THE NEXT.
AMEN.

--REINHOLD NIEBUHR