DON'T GET THEM CONFUSED

 

THE HOLY FACE DEVOTION AND CHAPLET

 There are wonderful books about the Holy Face Devotion that explain it well.  I would recommend The Golden Arrow to begin with, which gives the initial revelations given to Sr. Mary of St. Peter.  Micki and I enjoyed reading together God Demands Reparation: The Holy Man of Tours, which tells of wonderful miracles through this devotion.  My favorite treasure is The Manual of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face, a fat little book that has everything in it.  

After reading about the miracle that happened at the Vatican, we have this Holy Face image on our living room and library walls.  And we focus on it while praying the chaplet.

There are various ways to pray the chaplet, but this is how we do it.

 

 

 If you don't want to buy a book right off, an excellent and economical way to be introduced to this beautiful devotion is to order the back issue of From the HouseTops magazine with the cover story: Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus. 

I hope you look into this wonderful devotion.  I'll be praying that you do.  God bless you.

 

A FLYING SAUCER LANDED IN OUR YARD

THE OFFICIAL POPEYE FANCLUB

 

       In 2021, Micki and I went to Chester, Illinois, to take pictures of all the statues of Popeye characters and to visit the Popeye Museum. While in the Museum and buying a Goon shirt and metal Popeye statue and other fun things, we had an enjoyable visit with its curator, Debbie, who runs the Official Popeye Fanclub.  

       After returning home, I joined the Fanclub, and in the membership packet was the stylus that Micki had dropped from her phone when we were at the Museum.  Debbie's a nice person.

       I enjoyed the Fanclub for a year.  It's quarterly 32-page newsletters are excellent!  But things and minds and distractions as they are, I neglected to renew my membership after that year.  Now, five years later, I've realized how much I've missed the Fanclub; and so finally renewed my membership and ordered all the issues I've missed since the end of 2021.  I'm whole again, and "I am what I am."

        It costs $14/year to join the club (a good deal).  Debbie explained that their website is not reliable lately (I've found that clicking the links didn't work for me) so it's easier to go to PayPal and pay scc1@popeyethesailor.com; or you can send a check to the Official Popeye Fanclub, 1001 State, Chester IL 62233; or you can call Debbie at the store with a credit card, at 618-826-4567.

       I'm going to read all of these, cover-to-cover. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WE SAVED A BUNNY

 

       Just now, Micki and I saved a large bunny from a crow!  Micki was leaving for Mass, and hollered from the porch that she saw a big crow flying up from our yard, carrying a rabbit!  "And it dropped it, right over there," she said, pointing.  On the lawn on the other side of our dirt road, lay something, and we went to check.  Sure enough, there was a half-grown rabbit, lying on its side.  We thought it was dead, but I saw it was still breathing.  As we approached, the bunny rolled up onto its belly and stared at us.  I walked up to it, and it stood up.  It was so stunned that I thought it might let me pick it up, and I kept talking to it as soothingly as I could.  It slowly hopped away from me, and finally began running across the large lawn and toward the woods where we knew it lived with its mother.

       Micki and I were so relieved, but when the bunny was only half way across the big yard, Micki shouted, "There it is!" and pointed up at the crow coming down to grab its prey again!  I ran toward the bunny, and yelled the most ferocious crow imitation I could muster.  And the crow veered off and flew away.  The bunny made it home.