There’s a LOT going on in the Church right now as we ramp up towards the Synod next month. I’m sorting through news and submissions looking for the stories we should be covering, and discarding those that are a distraction. It is, to borrow a cliche, like drinking from a fire hose.
But life, also, goes on.
We just welcomed our 7th child into the world on Saturday. Things are, as you might expect, a bit…busy.
Please forgive any delays in posting as I re-adjust to the new situation. We’ll power through, but home life is going to be a bit more demanding.
I also want to thank all of you who have made recent contributions. You really do make it possible to continue this work. Remember, too, that we have masses said for our benefactors on the 2nd of every month, and for what it’s worth, my family and I remember you in our rosaries. We’re a David, not Goliath, operation. But we’re growing, and it’s only because of God’s blessings coupled with your readership and support. You have my deepest gratitude. I’d like to ask that as we continue to weather this confusion, please pray for us (and especially me, as editor) to have the wisdom, discernment, and guidance, to sort what is true from what is false. Watching other apostolates capable of doing great good lose their way is upsetting. There but for the grace of God…
More soon.
Deo gratias.
Blessings to your family! Wishing you all health & lots of sleeping time (eventually)!
7 children at 36 years old. Incredible. I am the same age and have 1 and that is difficult enough at times. Hopefully will get to 2 in the next year or two.
Deo Gratias. Congratulations and best wishes for your family. Hang in there.
Congratulations to you, your Bride, and entire family, Steve. No wonder the libs aren’t fans of yours – you and your ilk are destined to outnumber them 🙂
We’d hate to give the impression that we think that — excuse the language — that in order to be good Catholics, we have to be like rabbits.
Congratulations!!
As my grandmother always said, “Every baby brings a loaf of bread under his arm.”
THE
LOAF
OF
BREAD
Every work of God…
With it something brings.
On humid, hot-days clouds
Let go their rain-drop pings.
‘Fore lady, lightening strikes,
She warns us with her thunders,
To shelter kith and kin
As lightening sometimes blunders.
And crusty, creeks bring rocks
And all the rocks bring slime,
Where little boys explore
To slip on rocks they climb.
And under babies’ arms,
New lives bring loaves of bread.
Holy Mother brings Our Lord,
Blood-sacrificed un-red
To feed the soul which brings our flesh
To earth then hopefully Heaven,
The priest, the rock, the Church, the flock,
The sanctus sacrificium et seven.
Congratulations. Blessings to you and your brood.
Congratulations, Sir! 3 more and you’ll equal mine. It gets easier when they get to be teenagers, you know…
God bless you and your family, Steve.
What a doll! Congratulations!
Congratulations and may God bless you and your family richly. And thank you for doing what my generation failed at so miserably: accepting the blessing of children as a reward from God. My prayers are with you. We here in Bingburg are so proud of you.
Congratulations! 🙂
Congratulations!!!!
What a BEAUTIFUL baby Steve!! God is GOOD. Blessings to you and your beautiful family!
You’ll have to update your little bio just above: “Steve lives in Northern Virginia with his wife Jamie and their six children.”
God is so good. Congratulations to you and your wife.
Congratulations to you and your wife, Steve. And get all the hugs and cuddles you can. They grow too fast…. at least in retrospect ;^)
Your beautiful child brought tears to my eyes…so precious! How blessed you all are and what a blessing you are to others.
Beloved brother in Christ, Steve:
Congrats on the birth of your baby. May our Lord bless and protect this baby from all evil and bring the light of Christ and the new birth of baptism soon for this child.
You are in my humble prayers as is your wife and children, I wish to thank you on behalf of the Church Catholic for your faithfulness to the accuracy and integrity of the truths of our faith intelligently manifested in what you post on OnePeterFive.
May St. Michael the Archangel surround you with the heavenly hosts.
Please remember us poor deacons, priests and bishops in your God-pleasings prayers,
love and blessings,
Rev. Deacon Joseph Pasquella
Wow, your comment really struck me. Thank you so much.
Thanks everyone! Your kind words and prayers are all greatly appreciated.
Congratulations! My wife and I are planning our fifth when I get home from deployment.
Congratulations!
(You beat me! 😀 )
Hi Steve do you go to the Latin Mass at Holy Trinity in Gainseville? I don’t live in Northern VA right now (could go back next year potentially) but that is where I discovered the Latin Mass and I have stayed with it since. That is one of the most beautiful church architecture designs for churches that are newly built. I wish all of the new churches were built that way.
Let me know if you need any extra carrots….
Wow. I remember when you only had two.
May God continue to bless your growing family!!! You are an inspiration in so many ways.