First off, Thankyou for your prayers for my brother Steve who had a knee replacement at New England Babtist hospital. He is home now starting the recovery process.
On a sad note please pray for a young manThis young man Matthew Silvano who went home to God at age 27 from colon cancer. There is no way anyone cannot rationalize such a horrendous loss of a young strong good man.
Fortunately for Matt his family instilled faith in him where even in his toughest moments he lived to radiate, hope faith and trust. His family and friends are stunned by his loss so please keep the family and everyone effected in your prayers.
we need to hold on his promises. God bless the Silvano family and friends Amen.
Last evening I went to bed I put my kindle on with my Pandora running. I never know what song will pop up and I love that:) I often hear songs that I have not for many many years. The sky was black the stars where bright and sharp as I looked up through the skylights. (So pretty)
I began to pray and remember all those who are now gone from this world.
This song came on and I thought of my friend Paul S. He was a awesome man, human being friend and family”man and firefighter.
i was thinking about his attitude and how unexpectedly silly he was even during his toughest days. He was a role model to everyone. When, I would talk to him or see him his response was to say when how he was feeling he would say as he cocked his eyes like Charlie Scheen Winning! Lol
Paul succumbed to his pancreatic cancer nearly 1 year ago. On Dec 19th 2015 in Kaplan hospice house with his room fully decorated for Christmas. It was incredibly touching.
You see, Paul did not give up or lose to cancer because he did not get down or drag his family down with him. Even his funeral mass was one a celebration of a life very well lived. By living his victory he helped to set his beautiful wife Linda and their three children up for success. Paul and I connected on a very unique way around family , cancer and our feelings about what was next. We were in the trenches together so to speak with cancer trying to pull us down to drown.
I am still here by only by the grace of God.Daily life is not easy but it is beautiful nonetheless.
All of of the people that I knew that sick were faith based and i f I felt they were not I took the faith and reached out to offer them a ligh jacket of hope. Paul and I spoke often about our beliefs and plights as he we moved along our life journey. There were no words unsaid. No expression of support not shared. We are all simply people of God on a journey that can be difficult. He found joy in his day because it helped his family and friends. He was a quiet fisher of men witnessing his faith in what God promised. So, when this song came on I smiled and thanked him for his goodness. You see Paul I truly believe is in a Far superior place. Healed and with all of his family and friends that were waiting on him.
Here is the song
The next song that came on was this another fitting song this one more from a human perspective when we lose a loved one family or friend we are dust in the wind from birth the bible speaks of ashes to Asher and dust to dust life does in fact in my faith have a destination. It’s like the wind we are carried back to God and his safe haven of Heaven as far as I am concerned.
please everyone pray for eachother for Paul and his family Mary W. And her family they lost their Bryan this year. For Alici, and her lovely family who lost Jack M this year for Tim and his lovely daughter they just lost their wife and mom Leslie. Also, last but not least for a friend K who lost a dear friend from cancer. For Anne K and family for Nancy s family and friends will need prayers to make it through. For Mick and family who lost their beautiful wife and mother Donna C Please just ask God to help to comfort everyone and give them peace during the up coming Season. Amen. God knows who were are praying for we are all connected. So, my prayers will arrive at the needed destination. By Gods perfect way . Your will too!👍😀🙏
I find such joy in mass. I feel very connected to God, the readings and the gospel. Fr. Ron always delivers a great sermon as well. It often seems like he is speaking directly to me and whatever is going on in that moment. As a matter of fact my wife and I have been astonished when he was speaking and looked at one another. That’s another gift from God. Proof of his existence in our lives.
I am am sitting here trying to remember the song that the young man sung today. I love the song and thought how perfect with Fathers Sermon.
The song that I love so much I have shared before. Casting crowns Who Am I. The title of the group comes from the fact that we all at times think we are the kings of our life’s etc. yet, things happen to us that humbles and reminds up that we need to throw our crowns down and give our stuff to God.
This song
Who Am I is written from the perspective that Jesus could have said no to God about the crusi fiction and saved himself from the pain and suffering on the cross.
This is song asks the question and to us God counts us all as uniquely beautiful and individual his love is beyond our understanding.
God loves us unconditionally and just wants us to try to live the commandments of love and relationship with him.
In in my church and tradition we have confession and I believe in that sacrament and go to confession at least 1 a month.
This song mentions us dropping our crowns at his feet.
God Bless you all have a wonderful week. Please pray for my brother S who is having knee surgery this week. Thankyou
i have been saying for the last 5 years through prayer that this the time of Miracles. Miracles can be big or small many are un noticed. The world is getting darker by the day. And God is revealing himself through signs and wonders this video was captures by a man in South Carolina. He said he felt it was a direct answer to prayers where he was struggling with his faith. He was struggling with it all.
Everyday, I keep my eyes , ears, and my prayers focused on one thing the good ness of God and the beauty often hidden from my sight. Well, today was no different. Last evening was beautiful my youngest daughter Rachael worked all day she went food shopping and picked up her boyfriend who I very much consider to be another son from the train station.Austin is currently attending college in Boston she and Austin made a dinner side by side in the kitchen. It was a family dinner so all of my children were here. They made vegan tacos that were delicious. My son brought over vanilla bean cupcakes that my daughter Stacy had made and gave him so it was a great night eating and sharing.
I watched part of the 50th anniversary of Charlie Browns show The Great Pumpkin and a few minutes of the toy story Halloween show because it reminded me of simpler days with my children being younger. I live in the past at times because it was a simpler time certainly simpler than my days are now.They were times that I have never taken for granted nor will I ever forget those days of joy are in my heart, and deeply embedded in my soul. Those memories are eternally mine.
This morning I was tired and actually came down to have breakfast at around 10:00 Everyone was up and about and my wife had long since left for work.
I was sitting in my chair and my daughter Rachael had to have all four of her impacted wisdom teeth out today and for the first time I was unable to go with her generally speaking my wife or I always accompanied our kids to all appointments like this. Well, I was sitting in my chair here and the phone rang. It was the specialty pharmacy that delivers my chemo therapy drugs setting up the delivery of my next round. I got speaking to the gentleman and soon understood that this man was a message for my day. It was like talking to myself on so many levels. Meanwhile both my daughters and my daughters boyfriend Austin exited the house. Before I knew it I began to feel badly that I was not able to go but was so happy that God had Austin here to do what I could not.
So, I sat in my chair. And spoke to my new friend Bob at the pharmacy and the front door opened and in came Rachy and Austin they had already been to the oral surgeon and the pharmacy.Rachael was how you would expect her to be from the Meds. weepy, Austin with his soft spoken nature just tended to her needs quietly he was reading the the Dr.’s directives and was getting her getting her some soup so se would not get sick from the medication. Rachael ate and starting her Meds. Austin then grabbed a bag of peas out of the freezer and wrapped it in a towel for her to use. He was up and down the staircase getting her settled next he came down and got Jerry the wonder pug and up he went to bring the pup to cuddle with Rachael 👍😀❌⭕️❤️. She loves that pug so much it is her baby. I tell her all the time that Austin is using her to get to Jerry. I said that Jerry is technically Austins first dog. Lol
The bottom line is this. I have prayed by my kids beds when they were little as did my wife that our kids would be happy and would be loved. My wife and I have I placed them in the loving hands and heart heart of My blessed Mother and Jesus Christ.
What that has done is no small thing. God granted beyond our wildest imagination true loves for each of our kids were we as parents would have that peice of mind.
Stacy ended with another wonderful man named Chris Cucinotto. Whom she wed in June of 2015. He is another son to us and his family is simply and extension of ours
My son Dan met his wife Andrea and they now are now wed . I tell her she is now my fourth daughter. And in my heart she is. Her parents and her sister are wonderful too so one again the family stretched out a bit more.
Rachael and Austin met at a Cathoilc Retreat Center that we belong to and became involved with the teen retreats there. They trained and worked many weekends with teens who were on their own individual journeys of faith.
Last, but not least.
My daughter Rebecca, Becky or as I call her Becky Boo, She has been dating her boyfriend Leopold Leo for the last 3 years everyone loves him.
Each one of my children have someone that only God could have matched with such precision. That’s not that my kids did not meet others but they clearly were not the right ones. I always said to my wife if we had those feeling lets just point out the different things that we see and let them look themselves. They need to have the dignity of their own decisions. When each one of my kids met their current partners it was just natural. Their was no drama. So, per usual I am grateful to God for this part of my life being settled and not turbulent.
yes, everyday is not easy but the stuff that really matters in life we have in huge amounts. We have, life,love, our family, a comfortable home food, and a general sense of peace and harmony which is rooted in one thing faith.
I came upon upon this song today after prayer and it totally sums up this day and all of the others that I am experiencing.
So, this day Graditude is what life is all about. Today I am so grateful to God for my children’s significant others and to the parents / grandparents who raised. Them Particularly today Eillen and Brian Austin mom and dad.
God Bless You All, Be grateful. Amen.❌❤️⭕️👍👍👍😀❤️❤️
my low energy is still an issues to me for instance. The effect of the phytigue that I am feeling is that I am home 99.9percentof the day. I go out for medical appointments etc and I managed to get a ride to see my dad, which was awesome.
I was out this week with my son to get a tux for his wedding. My son and daughter in law we actually wed in May of this summer at Andreas parish church immaculate Conception in Newburyport. Because at that time I had just had my second terminal cancer diagnosis my son Dan and Andrea wanted to make sure I would be there for their wedding day. Which, I really appreciated. They had their scheduled date of Oct 15 2016 invitations were sent out and responded to as well as the vendors set up etc,
Well, her parents were kind enough to to allow the May ceremony to move forward despite the October date. Etc.that was a beautiful marriage and vow ceremony.
This Saturday was the full wedding and vows, mass precious body and blood as well. To me the church ceremony is the most important peice of the day. The rest the gathering, food , dancing etc serve as a bonding opportunity for the families to unite together as a new family larger and more understanding of one another.
It could not have been anymore.beautifhul. this past Saturday as our families and friends joined the in renewing this vows. The reception that the planned was beautiful, food venue and its locale only one block down the road from the Church the mission oak Grill.
Today, I had my scan and it was great. Unchanged from my last scan in August.
Which means that my protocol is current working. I still have cancer it is still considered terminal because it’s not gone and Glio is not a curable cancer. I trust in God alone. Either here or there he has me.
i. Have had a little issue with the device that I blog on hence the delay in postings.
Everything in Dannys world remains the same no marked improvement in my mobility, or energy level as yet but I do remain hopeful.
I did did actually go to the Y once this week after not having gone since my Surgery April 27. It was good to be there and yet I felt somehow removed from the situation the people who attended the Live Strong program were not there. I saw my friend Dan one of the Livestrong trainers there which I really enjoyed seeing.
Please Keep Leslie in your prayers, Tim and their lovely daughter. Tim informed me a short while ago that Leslie’s journeys and battle with Glio is nearing its end.
This is a song that I just shared with him. It is exactly how I feel about death. Jesus did all the heavy lifting and dragging of the cross and dyeing on the cross for our sins so that death would not be eternal. So, when we leave this Earth and life we are truly just going home. My mom loved this song and I found this version. So, to Leslie Timand their lovely daughter
Also, for all of my friends that I have lost to Cancer etc over the last year or so may their families be comforted as well.
Teddy A. Jack G M
Anne K.
Vince Jeanne D
Maria C.
Bryan w.
Paul S.
Donna C.
Donna S
lets pray together, and believe in what Gods promise is Amen.
love, Danny I would like to point out one thing on this song that may not make sense to you unless your Roman Catholic. Mary our Most Blessed Mary is called the Morningstar. She is our Heavenly Mother. We in the Catholic Church do note worship Mary what we do is adore and venerate her because she was chosen above all other women to conceive through the Holy Spiritthe only Divine being to ever live. His purpose was to make eperations for man kinds sin so that death would not be eternal but that we would be able to be reunited with God through relationship to Jesus Christ my savior and my brother Amen.
So, my Blessed Mother is my prayer partner and I know when God calls me she will guide me to where I desire and want to be.
Just Danny Speaks 