Sweet Little One

With love for our third child, Michael Gerard.

Oh sweet little one, whom my arms long to hold

Heaven's gain is our loss.

Playing in It's fields, skipping along

with your sister hand in tow.

Just mine for a little while,

though I guess you never really were.

Made out of love with a beautiful soul

Never blemished by the world.

So perfect and innocent

So holy, our little Saint

Waiting for us to whisper your name

and pray.

Oh joy and sorrow of a precious short life

made in His image and born into light.

We call you by your name

our child we know you, though unseen.

I see your face when I close my eyes,

and hear your voice in my heart.

Together one day, we'll eternally be

and our family, finally complete.

So perfect and innocent

So holy, our little Saint

Waiting for us to whisper your name

and pray.

Guardian Angel

Yesterday was the feast of the Guardian Angel.

Words cannot describe how loving God is to gives us our Heavenly Guardians.

They keep a constant vigil at our side, from conception until death.

Then if we go to Heaven, we get to meet our sweet Angel

and praise God with them for all eternity.

My Angel has done so much to protect and guide me.

I could never say thank you enough.

Stories for another day.

In the mean time, hear is an old Catholic prayer/hymn

that I put a new melody to.

Prayer:

Guardian Angel From Heaven So Bright
Watching beside me to lead me aright
Fold thy wings round me O guard me with love
Softly sing songs to me Of heav'n above

Chorus

Beautiful angel My guardian so mild
Tenderly guide me For I am thy Child

Oh may I never forget thou art near

Keeping me ever in love and in fear

Waking and sleeping In labor and rest
In thy sweet keeping my life shall be blest

So long thy power hath blest me

Sure it still will lead me on

'Or more and fen, 'or craig and torrent till the night is gone

And in the morning those angels smile

which I have loved long since and lost awhile

All Yours

Lyrics:
I am Yours by St Gemma and Dacia Wells

I am Yours o Jesus.  I am Yours o Jesus.

But You have good reason to complain about me yes I have offended You.

And, undeserving as I am,

I should be obliged

to give back to the Altar

so many stolen Breads, and so much precious Blood.

But I promise You that I will make amends.

Open Your heart to me Open Your heart to me

I wish to place all my affections there

Jesus I love thee, Jesus I love thee

Open Your heart and I open mine to You.

By why do You act towards me with so much love?

While I offend You with countless ingratitudes?

This thought alone, if I could but comprehend

should be enough to turn me into a furnace of love.

Open Your heart to me Open Your heart to me

I wish to place all my affections there

Jesus I love thee, Jesus I love thee

Open Your heart and I open mine to You.
Is it not an irresistible love to love Him who is not angry with one who

always offends Him so? O Jesus, if I only considered attentively Your

immense love for me, how greatly I should excel in every virtue! Pardon me,

O Jesus, so much carelessness; pardon such great ignorance. My God!

Jesus my love, infinite Goodness!

What would have become of me if You had not drawn me to Thee?

Open Your Heart!

This was recorded about a year ago at Daniel's Den.  I wanted to put up a new vid but our good video camera is somewhere in a box, where I do not know. Doh! Anyway this is a song I put together of the beautiful word of St Gemma Galgani. She is my favorite Saint because of her immense love for Jesus, and someday I will share how she clawed her way into my life. St Gemma, Pray for us!

Here I go...

Well after years of wanting to start a blog, finally the time has arrived.  I'm not really sure what this will be, but I promise it will involve my music, a cute little baby boy, a wonderful husband, a little humor, and most of all, my faith. 

The name of my blog (Praying Twice) is derived from the famous St Augustine quote "He who sings prays twice." I love to sing! I do it all the time, in fact today whilst watching the Bears play (or attempting to play) my family and I turned the game into an Opera.  I assure you it was Tony worthy, well at least Youtube worthy. When I'm not singing Da Bears Opera, I sing old Church hymns or original songs that have flowed from the depths out of my Catholic heart. More than just loving to sing though. it is a prayer. It is a way God speaks to me and I to Him. And since the goal is to make my life a prayer, I guess I could say that my life is a song.  My life is full of joy and I hope to share a little of that with anyone who is willing to listen, err, read. Welcome to it.