May 4, 2011

"Our spiritual journeys are lived moment by moment, not day by day or even week by week"  Leslie Williams

Easter Sunday

"He is risen!" Alleluia!  Happy Easter everyone!

Good Friday and Holy Saturday

"We will not fear,though the earth will give way, and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea"

reflection on a spring day

"Love is a flower that grows in any soil...blooming fair and fragrant all the year and blessing all those who give and those who receive."     Louisa May Alcott

in memory

this post is in memory of my sister Maureen who slipped peacefully and gently into heaven on March 29th.  She was wrapped in her prayer shawl and surrounded by family and friends. Sleep warm dear sister, mother and friend.

The wrapping

Marti and Sue were so privileged to wrap one of our ministry members last night...what a spiritual experience! JoAnne, you are in our hearts and prayers today as you have your surgery. May your shawl comfort you  -and be "a hug from God" during your days of recovery.


"Mantle of Love, rebirth us with wisdom. Knit us once again into wholeness"     
excerpt from Ariadne's blessing by Janet Bristow

March 7, 2011

Faith, family and friends are all that we need....a simple but powerful message!

thought for a rainy day

It's the last day of February...hope this quote inspires you!
"Rain showers my spirit and
waters my soul"

      Terri Guillmette

Our ecumenical prayer shawl meeting

We were so pleased to have guests at our February meeting. Kathy Dill and Judy Sandberg are prayer shawl ministry members from the Oakdale United Methodist Church in West Boylston. They talked about their ministry and we shared what we are doing here at St. Mary Parish. Many good ideas were exchanged! We knit, talked, and prayed together...a wonderful Saturday morning filled with the spirit of caring and friendship.

Beautiful creatures on a winter's day

I had to share these wonderful photos with you...we have been blessed to have five young deer in our woods for the past two days! A reminder that if we slow down and look, God gives us gifts that we may not see otherwise. 

"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience" Ralph Waldo Emerson

Valentines Day, 2011

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone in our ministry!!!

the message of the butterfly

When you see a butterfly on a sunny day, it's God's way of saying hello

Angels among us

"You don't need a formal prayer or invocations to call the angels to your side..simply think "angels surround me" and they are there"  D. Virtue

                                                             Babs Donahue's angel

thoughts on a gray Saturday

"God gave us memories so that we might have roses in winter"

Reminder: Our meeting will be on February 19th at 10:30 am

God's tapestry of life

"Life is a tapestry

We are the warp, angels are the weft

God is the weaver

Only the weaver can see the whole design"

Elizabeth Elias Freeman

thoughts on knitting

"Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either."
                        Elizabeth Zimmerman

thought for the day

"Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gather together. It's something to celebrate..articles made in love and service..it's something women have always done."
                                                   Anne Bartlett...(Knitting: a Novel)

a dedicated knitter

Look at her...she's carrying a heavy load and cannot see a way out, but she still somehow manages to knit! Remarkable women can do great things!

A snowy day

"Snowflakes are kisses from heaven"


See what magic happens when you put all those snowflakes together...another knitter joins our ministry!

thoughts on a cold winter's day

"May every stitch you knit bring you a little closer to that calm, clear space in  the center of your soul"

                                                             Earth Heart Designs