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Why is everyone so serious?

On December 28th of the year 2007, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Josephine Elizabeth Klaas was claimed by Christ and became a member of the Church through Baptism.  Her godparents are Sister Crescencia Guerrero, OJS and Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Vogel.  Fr. Caleb Vogel performed the baptism, assisted by Fr. Justin Brady.

Praised be Jesus Christ!

Cute Christmas Kids!

Happy, happy 2 week birthday, Jo!

Little One

Feast of the Immaculate Conception- Hail Mary Concieved Without Sin!

Today is the feast of the Immaculate Conception. Besides being the patronal feast of the Americas, it is also a Holy Day of Obligation. The Archdiocese of St. Paul, happily, did not abrogate the obligation to attend mass simply because it fell on a Saturday.

This was the first time our family of four attended mass together. We attended the vigil mass at a nearby parish, since ours did not offer a vigil. We knew we were at a good place when in the narthex we discovered the parish had children's mass books for use.

Josie slept through most of her first mass. Elijah was a dream child. He happily read his provided books, sang some of the hymns and took an interest in the liturgy. He likes to kneel when we do, and he genuflects in his own fashion on entering and exiting the pew. Yet, it is when he solemnly offers the sign of peace to his neighbors that he wins their hearts.

Elijah's angelic disposition did not go unnoticed by those around us. Several folks in the pews nearby commented, after mass had ended, on how good he had been. The praise did not end there. I don't want to be too boastful, but my kid got a tip for attending mass. I am not talking a snippet of advice, I'm talking (Minnesota) cold, hard cash. A fellow mass goer was so moved by his behavior that she gave little Elijah a neatly folded one dollar bill.

We promptly deposited it in the box next to the votive candles and lit one in front of the St. Joseph statue. Elijah was happy to put his money toward lighting a candle and sung the first few words of Happy Birthday-- which kinda relates to the feast, right? Our Lady being concieved without sin so that she could be born the first among us all, and a worthy vessel for our eternal and uncreated God to become a part of his creation, merits a round or two of Happy Happy on our part.

Posting Comments

It seems that folks are having trouble posting comments. This could have to do with the blogger.com. Also, we have been moderating comments for a while. We did this shortly after Elijah was born because we got some creepy comments from people we did not know.

Moderating the comments creates a lag in time from when the poster submits the comment that lasts until we can approve the comment. We think this may be the root cause of the frustration.

To see if this is the problem, we are temporarily changing our current practice. This experiment will only last if we see an increase in comments (demonstrating that moderating is the source) and if there are no more creepy comments.

We hope this solves any difficulties in leaving comments. We love to read them, we love to know who is looking at the blog and we love hearing from you all.

Happy St. Nicholas Day

Josie's first day home

Yesterday was Josie's first day home.  We came home in the middle of the first large snow storm of the year.  Elijah and Christina were excited to see each other and play.  Elijah has been a great big brother so far (two whole days)-- he even asks to hold Jo and likes to come in and say hi.  So far, the hardest part is sharing his mom at bed time.

Josephine Elizabeth Klaas

It is with great joy that we announce to you the birth of
Josephine Elizabeth Klaas,
born on the thirtieth day of November in the year of our Lord 2007. Josephine weighs eight pounds and is twenty-one inches long. She is absolutely beautiful.

Thank you all so much for your prayers.