a winter day

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire...it is a time for home."
                     Edith Sitwell

Stay warm, be grateful and keep knitting!

Good morning and Merry Christmas!

This is the official launch of St. Mary's Prayer Shawl Ministry Blog.

 I will be posting as often as I can, daily or once a week Enjoy looking at the pictures and the inspirational verses and sometimes witty quotations. I will send an email that will give you the blog address to type into your browser. Have a blessed Christmas Day and 2011. Keep knitting ladies!!!!!!   Sue Cote

"For unto us a child was born a son who is Jesus Christ our Savior"  Isaiah 9.6

Prayer shawl ministry meeting and cookie swap, Dec. 11,2010



Norma Dufault



busy hands make many shawls!



Susan Zybert and grandson Ben



Christine and Ethan Zybert
Babs and Holly Donahue




Holly Donahue joins our ministry for the day

 


I'm still waiting for my cookie





Marti getting ready for those cookies







YUM!





somebody is snitching cookies!




Babs, Norma, Sue and Rosemarie enjoying the goodies



knitting wisdom

There's always room for more!!!!!

SABLE: a common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy

Babs Donahue...our turbo-knitter

Barbara (Babs) Donahue comes to our knitting ministry from The First Congregational Church in Shrewsbury. She has knit nearly 500 shawls since her husband Jim's passing. He encouraged her to use her knitting skills to give others the same comfort he had found in a prayer shawl. We give thanks for her wonderful, giving spirit!!!



from an article in the Community Advocate...Msgr. Mike wants everyone to think he knit all these shawls!!!!