Author: Sassy

Wife, Mother, G'ma, Catholic, Conservative

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Summit Ridge WI

145 yrs of serving the Summit Ridge Catholic Community.

How “Blest” we have been for the priests assigned to us over the years.

The faithfulness of parish members is one to mark the calendar with. St. John’s may have 20 registered families, and as many more faithful Saturday night Mass attendees.

The WordPress page gives some history. https://stjohnthebaptistsummitridgewi.wordpress.com/ http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/usa-07/31646.htm The hope and prayer is a computer savvy person will volunteer to take it over and finish updating.

Another hope is we will have new members join the Confraternity of Christian Mother’s. We have been a member for over 100 yrs. They recently received a new director who is rejuvenating the group. https://www.archconfraternityofchristianmothers.com/about-us

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the Mass went very well the Bishop spoke on staying strong and pushing thru. Very good turn out with fabulous food.

06.25.2023

67⁰F cloudy W@11mph SR@0522 SS@2049

Morning Offering given

Village sleeps

Coffee good

The man and I enjoy the silence on the porch.

Hibiscus tree ready to bloom. Need to go out and pick off the yellow leave and feed it.

Hibiscus thru a screen

Rain came last night, I am grateful we needed it. Perhaps we will be blest with more later. Meanwhile, we are enjoying the cooler breeze.

Mass 10:30 St John’s with the Bishop and potluck to follow. 145 yrs of serving Summit Ridge.

Know you are prayed for.

06.24.2023

72⁰F 🌞 S@12mph 🌅0521 🌇2049

Morning Offering given

Village awake and working

No coffee

Off shortly to do pick ups and returns.

Happy Birthday 🎂 DD#4, AmyB

The man comes home tonight

🌧 coming pray it gives us the moisture we need.

Are you keeping tabs on the world? Hunter plead guilty- slapp on the wrist, no time. SMH at the double standards I am seeing. Big push on sex trafficking-still waiting for Epstien list to be charged. Trump/Clinton equal issues and oh so widely different in the handling. Repubs and Dems running neck and neck in bad decisions. It’s time to clean the entire swamp.

‘Nuff said

Have an awesome day

Know you are prayed for

I was asked a question today…

Tell me where you see or feel the presence of God.

I answered

In all honesty, I am struggling to see him right now. That I continue to search and hope must be where I find him. Otherwise, why would I continue to hang on?

The last three years have been “one damn thing after another.”

I am a simple non important person in the mix of things. That this barage of things continues to work at breaking me down is a sure sign that I need to hang on no matter what.

It must be a sign that my faith matters more than I believe it could.

The only one who would work so hard to make me stop believing is satan. If my faith matters that much to satan, it must be more important than I believe it to be.

Therefore, I walk thru this desert looking for something to quench the dryness. Something to show me I am on the right track. Something to affirm what I know to be true.

06.23.2023

65° F clear SW@4mph SR@0521 SS@2049

Morning Offering given

Village open for business

Coffee good

Drove home last night, and will return to IA early Saturday morning to pick up a couple of people and bring them home. I’m thinking to hibernate until them There are some things in my life that need to be re-evaluated. One would think at this stage in my game I would have it all together.

Bike to Mary is beginning day 2 of their journey. Hoping Mama Jo is feeling better this morning. If you don’t know about BtM you can read about it here. https://www.givemn.org/story/Bike-To-Mary or https://www.goodstreams.org/videogallery/bike-to-mary-pilgrimage/ or https://www.facebook.com/BiketoMary/ or https://madisoncatholicherald.org/chris-pundzak/

FAITH…what is it?

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not. (DR) or Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen. (NAB)


The Catholic Church defines it:
Objectively, it stands for the sum of truths revealed by God in Scripture and tradition and which the Church (see RULE OF FAITH) presents to us in a brief form in her creeds,
Subjectively, faith stands for the habit or virtue by which we assent to those truths.

What is it to you? I’m interested in what you have to say.

Off to do come household chores.

Know you are prayed for.