Chocolate Eggs at Easter?

The Christian custom of Easter eggs started among the early Christians of Mesopotamia, who stained eggs with red colouring in memory of the blood of Christ, shed at His cruxiffiction. The Church  officially adopted the custom, regarding the eggs as a symbol of the new life of the resurection.  Decorated eggs as a symbol of spring predate Christianity.  The French introduced the chocolate kind in the 16th century.

a lamb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3_vmdKSE3c


Holy Saturday ...always a peaceful day....low stress....new begin

Arielle.....Good Friday ambassador

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=FcCeLKE919E

During her mother Genevieve’s final weeks of pregnancy in 2013, doctors noticed there were issues with Arielle’s heart. Arielle was born with dilated cardiomyopathy and immediately transferred to The Royal Children’s Hospital.

After multiple tests it was revealed that the left side of Arielle’s heart wasn’t functioning, Genevieve and her husband Carl were told to prepare for the worst. At that time, a heart transplant wasn’t an option nor had it ever been performed on a child of Arielle’s age.

At eight days old, it became clear that Arielle wasn’t going to recover and specialists at The Royal Children’s Hospital made a bold decision to fit her with a Berlin Heart, a mechanical cardiac support system that supports children with severe heart failure. A child that young, at just over a week old, had never been fitted with such a device in Australia.

Thanks to this life-saving decision made by the RCH specialists the Berlin Heart supported Arielle and at five-months-old she was lucky enough to receive a heart transplant, making her one of the youngest ever recipients in Australia.

Captain of Castile...1947 flick

Forgot this Tyrone Power movie....good one...old but good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYpEQMaTOiA

Ah, the rain, the rain, the rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50UnuvdF2M

Meet Sister Jean

This is Sister Jean. She loves basketball. She is 98. Her full name is Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt and she is the chaplain basketball team Loyola University Chicago Ramblers. The nun, who leads the players in prayer from her wheelchair before a game, has been well-loved by Loyola fans for years, but gained the nation's attention during the team's success this season.

Tiny Little Flower...candidate for Sainthood

Audrey meets Pope St. John Paul II in May 1991, a few weeks before she died of leukemia. 


At age 3 Audrey Stevennson of Paris had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Her faith was so devote her family returned to practicing their Catholic Faith. Her fame for miracles of cure for others brought visitors from all of France. She died at age 7 from leukemia.


We the lesser can only admire her while in shame.

Eriee or what?

No comment necessary!

Look closely

The home of painter Rachelle Cleary,  Manchester, UK.  Lovely.

John Paul II

His body is incorruptible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1fEBGE3rdQ

You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up!!!!

An Oklahoma mother who married her daughter after the pair "hit it off" has been sentenced to two years in prison.  Patricia Ann Spann, 45, pleaded guilty to the felony offence of incest and admitted wedding her biological daughter, Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 26.   That's right MISTY VELVET DAWN SPANN.   Investigators later discovered Patricia Ann Spann had previously wed her son.

Expectation

simple is great wish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK2s9hOIa_4

statues under the sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8hxWHtoWyY

Katherine by Anya Seton the movie

The book is written in the English of the 13th century by an American. We are challenged by such vocabulary in our today's society. Looking forward to doing the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_kbPcVKju0

Self Driving Camel?

we provide u decide

The real best Irish movie THE COMMITMENTS

Have a listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5TQtREyhSM

Best Irish FIlm Ever

The Quiet Man

Some mass info

Thurible metal incense burner used in various ceremonies.

Eulogy is not permitted during the mass. The story is the exception was made for President Kennedy's funeral. Exceptions continued until today wherein the practice is now being excluded.

Great insults

Best Irish Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X86llfo2Aoo

Get St Green Day

Born in Wales, named Maewyn Succat....became St Patrick

If u can't wear it then drink it!

Tyrone's 9 year war with England

Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone

Queen Elizabeth I  feared the loss of Ireland under Tyrone's succeeding rebellion and his association with Spain ( the pending arrival of an army of Invasion).  Under Earl of Essex, she dispatched 16,000 troops to Dublin. This was the largest ever assembled under her reign and at a great cost to the Crown. After a year the English army was reduced by death in combat and disease as well as dissertion to some 3000 troops.

Great insults

Still my favorite

Always reminds me of mom, its the way she thought about things

Rose of Tralee vs Danny Boy....Game on

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXQ03XUwe_s

www.youtube.com/watch?v=imdkNJCnrOM

 vote for your fav but only if you're Irish

Lost world

Waitomo Caves, New Zeland     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrwKq2OlAx8

are they going up or down?

More Great Insults

Mary Queen of Scotts...the movie

The looks of the Mary and Elizabeth  (both redheads, Mikey) are most unsettling alike to their portraits. One must remember Mary (fervent Catholic) was next to throne after Elizabeth (ardent Protestant).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axQ11q3i7kY

Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore

Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone:
No flower of her kindred,
No rose-bud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes,
Or give sigh for sigh.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fF1LQn94_Sc

Great Insults

George Bernard Shaw to WInston Churchill: ‘I am enclosing two tickets to opening night of my new play.  Bring a friend if you have one.’

Churchill to Shaw: ‘Can not possibly attend opening night, will attend second --------  if there is one.’

Oops

http://www.cutecatgifs.com/surprised/

This cuteness is an addiction!

Ah!! Ain't it beautiful?

Retired tennis star John McEnroe made some serious cash last week, selling a painting inspired by serial killer Charles Manson for $10.4 million .“Helter Skelter I” 

the 34-foot-wide, 12-foot-long work had been hanging in his apartment.  Must be some big ass apartment. 

Mickey's solution to school violence.

Honor

Police officers line the route by which an officer, killed this morning, was transported to the morgue.  Been in too many of these.  RIP

Portrait of an Ageing Elizabeth I by Gareth Russell

Official portraits of Elizabeth 1 ( of which many were produced for public viewing over the decades ) were required to show Her Majesty with young face and figure. This was for reason of perpetuating the physical majesty of her monarchy as well her vanity. Real-look portraits were collected and destroyed were possible.

Some survived, some were painted after her death.

wildflowers in appalachia coming

jpr: I scratched out 20 some patches and seeded them with wildflowers last fall in the field/woods behind  my home.They will soon be blooming .Lovely!  Hoping they will spread. Yeah, several types of sun flowers should be up by June's end.

Huntington goes to the Oscars

A documentary nominated for an academy award, focuses on opioids in Huntington.

Our Turkey Vultures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9pmGULUsTw

It is a permanent resident in the southern United States, though northern birds may migrate as far south as South America. The turkey vulture is widespread over open country, subtropical forests, shrublands, deserts, and foothills.

Each March 15, the city of Hinckley, Ohio eagerly awaits the return of the buzzards at the Hinckley Reservation in the Cleveland Metroparks. ... The buzzard, a common name for the turkey vulture, is a large, (6foot wing span) graceful bird with a bald head and red beak.

New Theory

Science has long held that our ancestors, the Celts. originated in Central Europe, largely based on archaeological evidence of large and fairly sophisticated settlements 500 BC.  Roman and Greek narratives support the idea.  However, recent science demonstrates that Celtic weapons were being manufactured with Celtic methods in the British Isles and Portugal 500 years earlier.  The Celts came from the Irish and not the Irish from the Celts.  Who knew.

Elizabeth Kuan Tsu Lovett (1980-2016)

Mother of 4 died of inoperable kidney cancer at age 37. Originally a Tibetan Buddhist who spent time as a child in a monastery converted to Catholism after her marriage. The lady served with the U S Coast Guard. Her life and dying touched everyone who knew her.

student answers

even top students will cheat on a physics exam

“Equator: A managerie lion running around the Earth through Africa.”

“Germinate: To become a naturalized German.”

“Liter: A nest of young puppies.”

“Magnet: Something you find crawling all over a dead cat.”

“Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away.”

victorian era jokes

Apparently, her majesty enjoys this humr!

1. Who is the greatest chicken-killer in Shakespeare? Macbeth, because he did murder most foul.

2. About the only thing that prevents some men from telling bare-faced lies is a moustache.

3. Doesn't it make you dizzy to waltz? Yes, but one must get used to it, you know. It's the way of the whirled.

4. "See here, wait, I've found a button in my salad." "That's all right, sir, it's part of the dressing."

Spring?

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

wadsworth

baby elephants at the beach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUFd8n_6mQ0

Jesus who?

Real name 'Yeshua ben Yosef' Joshua of Joseph.  Occupation, handyman, general laborer.

Try a bit of the glorious

EWTN mass choir...out standing!

https://franciscanmissionaries.com/ewtn-choir-sings-alma-redemptoris-mater/

pipe dream

the ideal

Chinese cheap housing...better than living on the street!

the real

Now that's camouflage

Elizabeth I

painted 1600-1602

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603 Ascended to throne at age 25 just a few years after waiting a pending execution in the Tower.