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

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!!!!



Blessing of our Hands, October 10, 2010

Our hands were blessed at the 11 am Mass by Monsignor Michael Rose, pastor of St. Mary Parish...such an inspiration for us to keep knitting!!

On being a Well

On being a Well

What makes this world so lovely is that somewhere it hides a well.
Something lovely there is about a well, so deep, unpiped and real
Filled with buckets and buckets of that life-giving stuff
A faucet will do in a hurry, but what makes the world so lovely
is that somewhere it hides a well.
Sometimes people are like wells - deep and real, natural (unpiped)
life-giving, calm and cool - refreshing.
They bring out what is best in you.
They are like fountains of pure joy.
They make you want to sing, or maybe dance.
They encourage you to laugh...even when things get rough.
And maybe that's why things never stay rough once you've found a well
Some experiences are like wells too.
People create them
They are life-giving happenings
They are well..wells wonders of wonder..wells of hope.
When you find a well..and you will someday..
drink deeply of the gift within
And then maybe soon, you'll discover that you've become
what you've received
And then you'll be a well for others to find.
So lift up your eyes and look at all around you.
Over the mountains, down in the valley
Out in the ocean, over the runways
Into the cities, into the country
Sidewalks and highways
Paths in the forest
Into the hearts of a thirsty people.
Look!
and I beg you..don't ever stop looking, because what makes
this world so lovely
Is that somewhere it hides a well,
a well that hasn't been found yet
And if you don't find it
Maybe
Nobody will
And if you don't be the one
Maybe
Nobody will find you!

   "Seasons of the Heart" by Macrina Wiederkehr