Pro Ecclesia * Pro Familia * Pro Civitate: May Crownings Yesterday ...

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

May Crownings Yesterday ...

... at the Norwalk Catholic School Early Childhood Center ...

In Jamie's Kindergarten classroom

Jamie dressed for the occasion

Our Lady's crown in front of the altar in St. Mary Parish

Jamie's class sings after Communion

Jamie's teacher Miss Smith hands him Our Lady's crown prior to the Recessional

Recessing out of the church

Processing to the statue of Our Lady in front of the school

The crowning ceremony

One more of Jamie

And one of Mary Virginia

... and in the Anderson family's Mary Garden ...

The Processional
Mary Virginia carries a bottle of Holy Water from Walsingham;
Aidan carries a copy of Mary's Flowers, which contains a blessing for a Mary Garden;
Jamie carries the image of Our Lady and the Child Jesus;
and Dad carries Grace Assumpta

Approaching the "grotto"

Jamie places the statue

Blessing the Mary Garden

Labels: Catholic Education, Catholic Identity, Culture, Devotionals, Events, Faith and Family, Families, Mass, Norwalk, Our Blessed Lady, Prayer

8 Comments:

At 5/13/2008 10:36 PM, Maureen said...: Cute kids!
At 5/13/2008 11:49 PM, Jean Heimann said...: Wonderful photos! What darling children you have! The group photo was sooo cute. Thanks, Jay!
At 5/14/2008 12:04 AM, Walter said...: Beautiful children and wonderful pictures. You are blessed.
At 5/14/2008 4:38 AM, Anonymous said...: Great pictures!

OHIO JOE
At 5/14/2008 7:50 AM, matthew archbold said...: Really wonderful pictures. You're blessed.
At 5/14/2008 10:04 AM, mrsdarwin said...: Man, every time you post pix of your house or your church I turn green and wish I lived somewhere with real architecture. Maybe one day we'll live in Ohio again.
At 5/14/2008 4:35 PM, Terry Nelson said...: Thanks for sharing these - beautiful. You are a great dad! God bless.
At 5/14/2008 9:30 PM, Tito Edwards said...: You're a great daddy.

Very nice family you have.

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: Name: Pro Ecclesia; Location: Ohio, United States

A convert to the Catholic Church who became Catholic because of a belief in and devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. * A graduate of Baylor University and the University of Virginia School of Law. * Former Mayor of the Town of Columbia, Virginia. * Married with four children: two boys and two girls. * Primary interests include the Catholic Church, family, Early American History, and law/politics * Primary purpose of this blog is fostering enlightened discussion about the roles played by the institutions of religion, family, and state in our daily lives. * Under the protection of St. Thomas More, martyr, and patron of lawyers, judges, civil servants, politicians, statesmen, and large families (not to mention troubled marriages).

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Thomas More, counselor of law and patron of statesmen, merry martyr and most human of saints:

Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be able in argument, accurate in analysis, keen in study, correct in conclusion, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, trustworthy with confidences, courageous in court. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients' tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul.

Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain -- their good servant, and God's first. AMEN.

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Prayer to St. Thomas More for Lawyers and Judges

Dear Scholar and Martyr, it was not the King of England but you who were the true Defender of the Faith. Like Christ unjustly condemned, neither promises nor threats could make you accept a civil ruler as head of the Christian Church.

Perfect in your honesty and love of truth, grant that lawyers and judges may imitate you and achieve true justice for all people. AMEN.

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Lawyer's Prayer

"Give me the Grace Good Lord, to set the world at naught; to set my mind fast upon Thee and not to hang upon the blast of men's mouths. To be content to be solitary. Not to long for worldly company but utterly to cast off the world and rid my mind of the business thereof."

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Litany of St. Thomas More, Martyr and Patron Saint of Statesmen, Politicians and Lawyers

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Novena to St. Thomas More

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~ Quoth St. Thomas More ~

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."

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"What does it avail to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by Faith, but also know by Reason: what does it avail that you know Him if you think little of Him?"

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"The things that we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labour for."

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

May Crownings Yesterday ...

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