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by Filed Under: {phfr}, Picture Recap, Swim

~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~
Every Thursday, here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!
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Sweetie ready for her heat.

Rose guiding Sweetie in freestyle.

Papi enjoying his view from the deck.  He is much happier being mischievous exploring than swimming.

Sparkles sitting poolside at a swim meet.
Dad racing with the kids at their swim team prep rally.

Dragonfly determined to be the youngest member of the swim team.

Summer Camps

by Filed Under: Camp Immaculate Heart, Camp Sacred Heart

This is a first for us, Dad is gone for a week.  This is the longest that he has ever been gone from us.  We’ve been spoiled blessed to have him with us on a daily basis.  Dad will be missed greatly.

His absence is for a good cause. Dad signed up to be the nurse and guide for a boys camp.  He left for Camp Sacred Heart on Sunday Morning.  He’s already created lasting memories and visited the hospital for a camper who needed stitches.    We’ve enjoyed his nightly phone calls to give us a re-cap on his daily blessings.

Here is Dad at Camp Sacred Heart.

I We couldn’t stand the thought of Dad being the only one to enjoy a good time at camp so we made up our own camp, Camp Immaculate Heart.  Rose came up with the name.

Our camp site is our backyard.

Camp Immaculate Heart campers in bed ready for their outdoor movie.

Some activities are planned but most are improvised at the direction of the campers.  Our mission is to pray & play with an emphasis on serving as Our Blessed Mother served, with joy and humility.  We pray that we, united with Dad (at Camp Sacred Heart), will glorify God and grow in virtue.

All for the Sacred and Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, all through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, all in union with St. Joseph.

Dad’s Day

by Filed Under: Dad, Father's Day

“Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy – let us pray.” ~ Bl. Mother Teresa

Dad is always striving to glorify God and bring his family to eternal life.  I give thanks to the Good Lord for his humble and loving service to my family and all he encounters.
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Dad is patient, Dad is kind: Dad envieth not, Dad dealeth not perversely; Dad is not puffed up;
Dad is not ambitious, Dad seeketh not his own, Dad is not provoked to anger, Dad thinketh no evil;
Dad rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth;
Dad beareth all things, Dad believeth all things, Dad hopeth all things, Dad endureth all things.

Dad is patient and kind; Dad is not jealous or boastful; Dad is not arrogant or rude. Dad does not insist on his own way; Dad is not irritable or resentful; Dad does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.  Dad bears all things, Dad believes all things, Dad hopes all things, Dad endures all things.

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St. Joseph ~ ora pro nobis.
Bl. Mother Teresa ~ ora pro nobis.
St. Lawrence ~ ora pro nobis.

Happy 60th Anniversary Papa

by Filed Under: Pope, Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on June 29, feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.

In honor of his anniversary, the Vatican Congregation for Clergy suggested Catholic clergy and faithful be invited to participate in Eucharistic Adoration with the intention of praying for the sanctification of the clergy and for the gift of new and holy priestly vocations.
“This is an exceptional opportunity to give thanks for our Holy Father, to pray for all of our priests, and to ask the Lord for more vocations to the priesthood,” said Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis, chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations.
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Pope Benedict XVI Ordination. The ordination took place in Freising, in the Concathedral of St. Mary and St. Corbinian of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul in 1951. About 40 deacons were ordained on this day by the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, His Eminence Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber (already 82 at the time), among them, in addition to Fr Joseph Ratzinger, his brother Fr Georg Ratzinger.



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Resources:
A New Priest 1951 – Part I
A New Priest 1951 – Part II
Pope Benedict XVI Prayer Card 
Prayer for Priest Prayer Card in honor of Pope Benedict’s 60th Anniversary of Priestly Ordination, the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the World Day of Prayer for Priests. 


Activities for Kids:
God Bless Pope Benedict XVI Coloring Page
Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI Coloring Page
How to Recongize a Pope Quiz
Symbols of Papal Coat of Arms
Papal Coat of Arms Coloring Page
Meet Pope Benedict – Story, Printable Book, and Crossword Puzzle
What a Pope Does – Activities
Mitre Craft – Catholic Icing
Paper Bishop Miter or “Pope Hat” – Catholic Missionary Family
Additional Prayers and Activities

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Lord Jesus we come into your Eucharistic 
presence to thank you for the life and 
priestly vocation of Pope Benedict XVI.  
Bless him and his ministry as your Vicar and 
the Successor of St. Peter.  Sanctify all your 
priests and configure them to your Sacred 
and Priestly Heart.  Give to your Church 
new and holy priests, who will imitate your 
divine love and shepherd your people with 
care. You live and reign with the Father and 
the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  
Amen.

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