I'd like to smother HER with a pillow...

...or at least her horrid and disgusting ideas.  Virginia Ironside is a British journalist who recently said that if she had a deeply suffering child, she would want to put a pillow over its face. Are you kidding me? I'm suffering just listening to hear her say that.  Perhaps she'd like to put a pillow over my face?  Check out her version of what a loving mother is here on Hot Air. Abortion, apparently, is sometimes the loving thing to do.

You can't spell the word 'smother' without 'mother!'

On the feast of St. Faustina, let's counter the evil of Virginia Ironside's so called loving thing to do with this prayer from the saint:

O My God,
When I look into the future, I am frightened,
But why plunge into the future?
Only the present moment is precious to me,
As the future may never enter my soul at all.
It is no longer in my power to change, correct or add to the past;
For neither sages nor prophets could do that.
And so what the past has embraced I must entrust to God.
O present moment, you belong to me, whole and entire.
I desire to use you as best I can.
And although I am weak and small,
You grant me the grace of Your omnipotence.
And so, trusting in Your mercy,
I walk through life like a little child,
Offering You each day this heart
Burning with love for Your greater Glory.

— From her Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul, Notebook 1 (1)

Obituary for Anson Martin

Anson Martin's obituary can be found here.  God bless him and his family. I hope to go to the public viewing on my lunch break on Friday.

Anson Martin

A young husband and father by the name of Anson Martin passed away on Memorial Day, yesterday.  He had valiantly and courageously fought Stage IV colon cancer for a year and beat the survival odds given to him by his doctors. 

Anson was a soldier who served in Iraq.  The fact that he went to be with the Father on Memorial Day has such a deep meaning.

Please pray for his wife Laurie and their three young children.  His funeral will be held next week in Port Orchard, WA.

Rest in peace.

In Memory of Robert Susil

Gwyneth Susil and Jonathan Hansen have written beautiful remembrances of Robert Susil. God bless his soul and his family. Remember them today in your Ash Wednesday prayers and sacrifices and hug your spouse a little extra.

God knows why

This evening, Rob Susil passed away. He is at peace, God willing, and helping his dear wife, Gwyneth, through mind-numbing sorrow. I cannot imagine losing my husband so young. God only knows why good people are taken so young with growing families.

God rest the soul of Robert, and give His strength and comfort to Gwyneth and little William. Words fail me to express my condolences to them. Love and prayers surround you and lift you up.

Grandpa Dion

Early this morning, Bernard Dion passed from this life to the eternal one. We are so sad for the loss of this godly and beloved man, who is the father of my mom-in-law, Suzanne Dion Campbell.



This past July, the Dion family had a reunion over in Edmonds. It was so nice to meet many of the people I have heard about from Sue and to put names with faces. The highlight of the party was celebrating Grandpa's 96th birthday.




Besides his sweet nature and his always classy and gentlemanly ways and dress, the thing I loved most about him was how much he loved his dear wife, Yvonne. She passed away in 1997, and at every meal I had with Grandpa, he would pray for the eternal repose of the soul of his "dear wife, Yvonne." After more than 60 years married when she died, they were so loving to each other and took delight in each other's company. I hope that I will be as good a spouse to John as Grandpa and Grandma Dion were to each other.

Grandpa's honest way of living has been passed on to the generations that came after him. It is evident in his four children, Ron, Annette, Ray and Suzanne, and their children. I see it in John and am so happy that they were close. We loved listening to him tell stories of his childhood, marriage and family life which had the joie de vivre of his family's French Canadian background and Grandma's Parisian background.



Thank you, Grandpa for all that you taught me, and thank you for living your faith so well. I'll miss the dinners with you and hearing, "Go easy on the butter." Til we meet again.

Qu'il repose en paix. Amen.

Choosing Thomas

TK and Deidrea Laux were planning for their first child's birth when they got the very difficult news that their son, Thomas, had Trisomy 13 and would not live long after birth if he survived it at all. This is a beautiful, sad and heroic love story about a little baby boy and the parents who fell in love with him before he was born. Life is so precious----why don't we love each other like it were the last day of our lives? Thomas Laux and his parents taught me that today.