+JMJ
“For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will
tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will
be impossible for you.”
Matthew 17:20
This post is about some of the inspirations and events that were going on behind the scenes of Vincent's meningitis experience. If you haven't read that yet, you can find it in the right columnπ
I am excited to share this story because it is one that gave me the confidence
to ask with such boldness, even so much as assuming there would be a miracle
with my tooth on May 20th. I even texted people asking for them to pray for
Wilhelmina's powerful intercession from 2-3ish, the time of my
appointment.
But let's back up. How did I relate a toothache to Sr
Wilhelmina? And where did all that confidence come from?
☘️ I picked a random clover ☘️
No big deal
On April 20th, 2024 our ICC Daughters of Mary and young ladies sodality took
a visit to the Benedictine sisters. When we started out on our walk, I
found a 3 leaf clover in the field to press and bring home. I ended up
carrying the thing all over the hike and then when we got back I placed it
in a prayer book. I don't remember ever thinking to pick up a clover and
care for it like I did that one! It seemed so random but so appropriate at
the same time.
The reason this really sticks out to me is because Mara F. suggested I could
send it back to the sisters in a little card with a thank you. We
laughed so hard when I joked that they might recognize it as one of their
own and know that I took it. "Hey! Isn't that one of our clovers?" I was
laughing so hard I had tears, which makes it so memorable
I placed it in a prayer book but I don't know where it went.
This didn't mean anything significant to me until the next year. So let's
move ahead a year to 2025
☘️π☘️
The St Joseph Cloak
my second time through
At the end of March 2025, a friend and I decided to pray the St Joseph
cloak novena together. This would be my second time through. I told her
how fruitful it was when I completed it in 2023 so offered to pray it with
her again.
This is a friend who is going through similar situation we had gone
through when I prayed my first St Joseph cloak novena in May of 2023. On
the day after we ended the prayers covering the month of April, we
met at 6:45am Mass in thanksgiving and stayed for the holy hour for
priests. Our month long prayers had come to a completion on May 1st, just
in time for the feast of St Joseph the worker. This was our plan.
Outside of the plan was the final date of the 30 days which was April 30th
2025, this just happened to be the long awaited date of the consultation
with Dr Jones about Vincent's nasal mass.
The next day was May 1st, the feast of St Joseph the worker. That day,
was full but in a good way, and it even included the inspection that our
oldest had ordered for his home purchse. The home which just happened to be
on Joseph Ave. and the inspection just happened to fall on St Joseph feast.
So, I had dropped off the girls at ICC for marigold dance and then went to
visit my parents nearby house until they were done and I could go pick them
up.
My brother was planting a tree in their front yard with his son and my dad.
My mom was in a chair and I was sitting on a dark blue blanket in the grass
with Vincent, cheering them on. My mom had brought out snacks left over from
their weekly Thursday happy hour at their house. I was leaning back on my
hands, with one hand in the grass and the other in the blanket, really
just enjoying the moment. After a while, I felt something touch the
inside of my hand and I instinctively closed it. I looked inside and was
shocked to see that there was a 4 leaf clover in my hand!! Immediately after
I saw the clover, I looked to my left as if I expected to see a person
there. After a couple seconds, I looked down again, and side to side, trying to figure out what just happened. I searched all around in the grass where my hand
was, and, even though there was a lot of clover, not a single other 4 leaf.
I was genuinely shocked and turned to my mom and said "Did you see what just
happened?! There's a 4 leaf clover in my hand!"
I remember searching for a 4 leaf clover when I was young and I never
found one. Then, when I'm not even looking, one appears in my hand, and it
honestly felt like someone placed it there! My mom was sitting in the lawn
chair and she witnessed my reaction. Though she didn't seem to think much of
it because 3 leaf is the one that represents the Trinity. More on that
later.
I didn't know what to think of it other than it was a gift. That night I
would message 2 people about it. Allie Hengen and Jocelyn Stolp
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I actually saw Allie at pick up from dance but I didn't get a chance to
tell her about the clover because I first had to fill her in on the
appointment Vincent had with Dr Jones, the ent, the day before on April
30th. As I was driving away I said, "I forgot to tell her about the
clover!" After I got home I messaged her and then I messaged
Jocelyn.
The next day, Allie got back to me.
So, to recap, May 1st was the day the 4 leaf clover was put in my
hand. It's also the day of completion of my 2nd completed cloak,
which we started March 31st and ended April 30th. April 30th was the date
scheduled to visit Dr Jones for the first time to consult about the
removal of Vincent's nasal mass.
A couple days earlier, on April 28th, I met a couple friends for
burgers. We get together every few months to touch base and encourage each
other.
As I was just finishing up the April cloak novena, I told them they
should pray these prayers too. Later that night, I messaged them that I
would pray it again with them if they wanted to do it.
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So as you can see, I ended up overlapping these 2 cloaks by 2 days.
All three cloaks are for similar intentions, with mothers suffering similar
distresses.
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Okay but how does this relate to the dentist?
Remember that when I got home after picking up the girls from ballet,
I messaged 2 people?One was Allie, and the other was Jocelyn.
Jocelyn is one of our dental hygienists at Mcmanigal dental. She was also at
Longo when the kids had braces. She presses clovers into jewelry and sells
them. I only found this out when I had a table at a craft fair, and
her table was placed right next to mine. We recognized each other and
got to chat for most of the day. Then both of our moms show up and we
realized that our parents know each other from Sons of Italy. Kind of a fun
triple connection.
I remember asking her, when I saw the 4 leaf clovers that she had found and
pressed, if they were real. The reason I doubted is because I had searched
for them when I was a kid, and never found one. But Jocelyn seemed to find
them all the time. I invited her to join us at our ICC boutique that
fall
That's when I bought this one.
Now I have to tell you, I have always been annoyed at St Patrick's day
when I see 4 leaf clovers. The whole point is that legend has it that St
Patrick tried to explain the Trinity to the Irish using a 3 leaf
clover. But I've learned some things about the 4 leaf clover and I'm not
going to ignore a marvel of creation just because some people say it's "good
luck."
Believers recognize God's providence in our lives, and non-believers
call it luck. They just haven't recognized the source of it yet, for nothing
is by chance.
πππ
When I later told my mom the story (after clover #3) my mom texted me
and mentioned that the 4leaf clover is superstitious...
I responded with what I had found with my internet researchπ
https://www.rd.com/article/four-leaf-clover/
Then I remembered Dr Higgins conflating good luck and Divine
inervention when I asked him if he would call the MRI results
miraculous. He said "either really good luck or Divine intervention, whatever you want to call it" Then I asked him if he would call it a miracle and he said he "definitely wouldn't rule it out."
(See Vincent's menengitis story)
You also have to consider that I wouldn't have thought so much of it if it
were a three leaf clover. It would still be weird how it felt like
it was placed there, but the 4th leaf really drove home an
impression. Plus the 4th leaf could be representation of divine
intervention, like the Readers Digest article said. Either way, it ended
up being a sign of some serious upcoming gratitude and contemplating of
the Divine providence of God and how he connects us in the communion of
saints for his greater glory!
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May 2023
The first cloak novena I started and completed was in 2023. The day I
received the St Joseph earrings from Sandy Gonzolez at decoris.co, was the
final day. So I went back and found the picture I took on the day of their
arrival so I could send it to her with a thank you. During 2020 I
started selling color street nail polish strips, which was also a
very weird thing for me to do, but hey it was 2020. Since
Sandy likes color street and I like her earrings, we would barter with
eachother. I would send her a bunch of CS and then pick out some earrings
I liked and she would send me those.
Color Street was also the reason why I was at the craft fair where I was
placed right next to Jocelyn who sells pressed clover jewelry. Not
sure I would have known that otherwise.
So that's how I remember the day that cloak ended, because of the
photo I took of the earrings to send to her after they casually arrived on
the final day of my prayers. When I told her what she could send me in
exchange, I didn't ever think they would be arriving on such a significant
day.
It was June 5th 2023.
When I saw that the pure heart of St Joseph earrings arrived on that very
day, I took it as a sign that God hears my prayer and the answer is
"not yet." This gave me the confidence in prayer that I really
needed. I had been praying hard for this intention for over 2 years,
not sure if the whole thing was going to end well or not. I had to keep
reminding myself of God's control and not my own. That is sometimes hard
to remember in the moment and we end up taking on worry and fear instead of trust no matter the outcome. We want our prayer to be answered now to avoid any further suffering, but then we miss out on
resting in the peace of abandonment to God's will. God has
mysterious plans and it doesn't always make sense when we are seeing it
from our temporal perspective.
I wish I could remember who told me about the cloak novena. I don't
even remember why I started it. But since I know I ended the 1st
cloak novena on the 5th of June, I must have started it on the 6th
of May and oh what a May it was!!
It started with some sad news though.
It was April 28th when our dear Fr Terrance Gordon had passed away. Soon after, I started my first St Joseph Cloak prayers. It was that first Saturday (May 6th) and the funeral was to be May 11th at our Omaha parish of Immaculate Conception.
It was at this funeral where word leaked out about the miraculous discovery in Gower and the day the sisters discovered that Sr Wilhelmina was still incorrupt 4 years after her death, was the same day as Fr Gordon's passing.
As soon as we we heard that they had Sr Wilhelmina laying out in the chapel, we
knew it was time for a once in a lifetime road trip! So on May 22nd we
loaded up into our big white chevy van to make the trip to Gower
Missouri. It was Stephanie Pacheco, her 3 littlest, and her
mom, and Brenda B and her son Alex who joined us. I only had my 3 year old Leo and
1year old Clare with me because the other kids were in school at
Christendom Academy. We ran into the Palmers while we were there but other
than that, there weren't many people there and we could really take our
time.

The first couple times I went in to touch her hand, it felt soft, like you
would expect a hand to feel. I never smelled roses, like some people do. I
only smelled the sweet incense left from Mass. I was pregnant for my 11th
time with our little Basil William, but didn't even know it. After
our little visit, we went out to the place where she was originally
buried, marveled at the whole thing, and gathered a little bit of
dirt into a small paper Dixie cup. We were able to come and go because
there was absolutely no line, so after that first visit and the walk
around the property. I went in the gift shop and bought the book "God's
Will," a black hematite rosary, and a small red decade rosary, then we
went back in the chapel for another visit. I touched my scapular, 3
rosaries, (the 2 bought and the 1 mothers rosary I carry with me)
her book and 3 holy cards to her hand. We really took our time on the
property and didn't feel rushed at all. It's like time stands still
out there. We stayed the morning and brought a small snack for the
kids, but soon it was time to go. Before leaving, we went back in to
say goodbye, but this time when I touched her hand, I remember being
surprised because her hand felt hard and cold like metal. We said
more prayers, thanking God for shining attention on this little
nun's life.
I can't get over the fact that Stephanie got a picture of the moment I
touched my scapular to her hand. Unknownst to me she did a great job
documenting this! If you don't know why this matters, read Vincent's
menengitis story.
Broomtree trip (still in May)
Over Memorial Day weekend, from May 26th-29th we had booked a half of a
cabin up at Broomtree family camp with some good friends of ours, the Wood
family.
I brought my Sr Wilhelmina book, "God's Will" up there and was absorbed in
getting to know her. I also got to pray my daily cloak novena up
there too as well as our daily rosary. We also prayed the stations a
couple times, once all together as a big group even!
Our first Baby #11
Shortly after we came home, I found out we were expecting again. It was
May 31st when I got the positive! On June 4th, Fr Berg came over to our
house for dinner. He gave me a blessing of motherhood then he and
the kids played chess together. And since he had his book and holy water
out, we had him also bless our large St Joseph statue which sits on our
mantle. You can see part of it behind his face here. This is the only
picture I got of this night.
On June 10th we announced at my parents in the family tradition of
standing in a bathtub to announce a pregnancy.
Fr Berg got to be present at my parent's house for that too, and since
we had the reason of celebrating Andrew's birthday, they didn't suspect
a thing.
Then June 14th we experienced our first loss.
This loss really did come with so much peace though. It's not like I
wanted it. It's just a disappointment that is out of our control,
but even in the midst of it, I recognized the timing of it, and was
grateful for the short little life he had had with us. It was truly out of
my hands. We named him Basil William and buried him by our Mary
statue with some dirt I had collected from Sr Wilhelmina's grave
site.
(Basil for the feast he was delivered and William after Sr Wilhelmina)
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That pretty much sums up the first St Joseph cloak and how it relates to
Sr Wilhelmina.
Except let me add this. Vincent is the "rainbow baby" a baby born
after a miscarriage. After he was born, I came up with this
song.
Vincent is heaven sent
He's our 11th sent
Vincent has baby scent
And we all love him.
The mention of a rainbow baby reminds me of this family picture we
got later the next year, just last fall, on Sept 26th 2024 at the
pumpkin patch with our 11 children and a rainbow.
☘️π☘️
Now back to 2025. There's a third clover.
First was in Gower on 4/20/24.
Second was the Four Leaf in my hand on May 1st
and the third was on my oldest son's 23rd birthday. 5/21/25
Here is that story..
On the 18th of May 2025, the first Sunday after Vincent got sick, I
got to go to Mass at 1pm at ICC. After the week I had, I was so full of
gratitude and felt like I could ask for anything. I was thinking about the woman with the hemorage who was bold enough to trust that if she only touched the hem of our Lord's garment, she could be healed.
The next day was May 19th when I called to schedule my root canal. New
wave dental said they could get me right in the next day.
And then Tuesday at 2:15 was my appointment where I cried out "It's a
miracle!" π
I had reserved 3 nights of camping at Two Rivers, Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday. I would have canceled because of the meningitis
and the hospital stay, but we wouldn't even get back half of the full
refund, plus I think Dominic, my oldest, was looking forward to it and he
had taken a couple days vacation. So on Tuesday evening, he
brought 6 of his siblings with him to set up camp and stay
overnight. Wednesday morning was his birthday so I texted Katie
Wood, whose family was camping next to us, to make sure no one forgot to
say something. Tom came and took a shift with Vincent at the
hospital so I could visit the camp ground where they were camping for a
little bit that morning (wednesday)
As soon as Tom came to the hospital to stay with Vincent, I drove
home to get Philomena and some things to bring with us. We stopped at
hyvee to get a cheese cake and a coffee to bring out. But when we got
to Two Rivers, Katie was about to leave with the kids for a
hike. I stayed by the fire to relax. Just before they got back
from the hike, Kilian(10) and I were invited into their tent to get
out of the wind and to see the set up with their camp stove. I was told
that I could sit on Katie's cot and Kilian sat next to me. Kilian
mentioned that he did a solo last Saturday. And I asked Dan Wood and his
son Jaxon if they wanted to hear it. I warned them that it's 3.5 min
long. They said they would like to, so Kilian began to sing the
Salve Mater. Right as soon as he began to sing, I looked down and
saw a 3 leaf clover. Directly in between my feet, with no other
grass or dirt anywhere in the tent that I could see. Katie later told me
that they always take off their shoes before they go in. While
Kilian began his song, I picked up the clover and held it,
pondering and praying until he finished.
Then I exploded. I told the whole story of the clover to the people in the
tent. As soon as I was done, Katie and the kids came back so I
told it again for everyone who missed. Those still sitting by the
fire, and those who were on the walk. By then, it was time for
me to get back to the hospital, so I brought Mena with me and made a video
recording of me telling the story of the clover for record keeping
sake.
Two things for clarification. 1) I usually don't wear socks with
sandals but my feet were cold so I got some from our tent. And 2)
after the song and the story, I put the clover back where I found it and
took that picture.
It's now pressed in a prayer book.
That evening, May 21st, when I was sitting in the hospital with Vincent, I
finallly started to compile a "cover letter" to send the story to the
sisters. It was time! Then I got a text from Jessica S asking if I
was going to report it. So I got all ready to send it but I was
still waiting for a final piece of the puzzle to come together regarding
my tooth. However, early the next morning, Vincent woke up to
nurse and I had a thought of "just send it already!" So I did. I
think it was around 2or3am on May 22nd but I'm not exactly sure on the
time. He was receiving his antibiotic every 12 hours at 4 and I know
it was before then.
And at the bottom of the "favors granted" box, I asked if they had been
seeing any "unexpected clovers" there at the Abby, telling them that for
me, it's what connects Sr Wilhelmina to St Joseph and my tooth
healing, adding "If not, I will still be satisfied with the little gifts I
keep receiving in the form of actual clovers and providential timing.
Resting in the will of God and whatever he wants to do with her story."
So that's the story of the 3 clovers. The third one actually came after my tooth appointment and seemed to be confirmation that God's grace is all over this.
So let's go back to the confident prayers with tooth #14.
As I told you of the Sunday after the miracle, being at Mass, full of confidence and gratitude, knowing of my upcoming root canal, confidently asking, with the faith of the woman with the hemorage, that there will be no fracture and that the root will be fine.
The next morning of the 19th, the day before my appointment at new wave
dental, there were a few more blatant signs that I can ask boldly and
confidently.
I asked Fr Truong if he could bring me Communion before the new wave dental
appointment.
I only told him the room number 203 where we were staying for the 2 weeks, and didn't specify a time. I only requested in the
morning.
I had already messaged a bunch of people to pray for Sr Wilhelmina's
powerful intercession,
between 2-3 on Tuesday the 20th.
I was loaded with even more confidence, and when Kristi Black told me
that she was just there in Gower. That's when it occurred to me that we were
9 days away from the feast of the Ascension and so I started sharing the
novena of Sr Wilhelmina's prayer with everyone, and said to pass it on,
praying for anything! Pray big and with confidence was my
message.
The morning before my appointment, by the time Fr Truong brought me
Communion, I had finally narrowed down what my intention for this novena
was going to be. It had to do with having a way for big, one income,
fssp families to affordably send their kids to school. When I told Fr
Truong that the day that Vincent's 14 days of antibiotics are up is May 27th
2025, 30 years after the founding of the order, he told me that the
original intent of Sr Wilhelmina was to have sisters to be a help in the
parishes. He listed some things they could have done, but all I heard him say
was "teaching" Then I told him what I had already decided my intention was
going to be. If you need proof, I had even sent a text, after I decided my
intention, encouraging them to join me, to the Hattons hybrid, where 4
of my kids go twice a week. It's very difficult for big families, who are
having babies every other year, to have to teach their 4-8+ kids on one
income, with one mother being the teacher, and this intention has been on my
heart for a couple decades.
So that's it. That's the story of the clovers and St Joseph and the
Benedictines of Mary. Of course there are a hundred more things I could
tell you, but it all worked together to let me know that this is a story
spanning more than this week. It just came to fruition after
years of careful planning by someone with a much wider lense.
*The picture at the very top was taken on the evening of May
22nd at two rivers. My daughter Cece kept bringing me clovers since
hearing the story I just told you the day before. I took a picture
of the boys playing and she held up the clover to get included. I just thought
it was a beautiful picture and wanted it as the cover.
May 20th at New Wave endodontist.
No fracture and the root is fine!
Thank you Sr Wilhelmina for your prayers π
(That night Dominic went camping and the next morning was when the 3rd clover was found between my feet- maybe coincidence, but I still marveled at it)
☘️π☘️
**UPDATE
After getting released from the hopsital, we drove down to Gower the next morning to attend Mass and give thanks. Vincent's 14 days of antibiotics were due to be completed on May 27th but they squeezed the last few doses together to get us out of there on the afternoon of the 26th. This allowed us to be in Gower for the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Order.
While we were there, I placed the clover on the altar of St Joseph where Sr Wilhelmina is buried. I was planning on leaving it there because it's just a thing and I don't want to be attached to a thing and the real gift was the miracle and healing of Vincent. Philomena my daughter insisted that I keep it though because it was a gift and someone cleaning might just think it's a random leaf and throw it away. So I told her that we will walk around the field and if it's still there when we get back I'll bring it home with us.
As we walked around the field, I noticed that there is clover all over the grounds. I really wanted to pull one of those little random weeds and bring it home with me to see if it could keep thriving at our house as a continual rememberance of this event. So I did. Then I ran into Sr Lillian and as we were chatting I confessed taking some clover. In laughter, she said to take as much as I want. After that I went back into the chapel and saw the clover still there on the St Joseph's altar behind a vase of flowers someone had left in front of it. I thanked God for the clover still there and placed it back in the prayer book. Now I'm going home with all the clover I wantπ
After getting home, I put the clover plant in a pot and watered it. It ended up dying, but on June 13th, when I was pulling weeds from our pots outside, I saw it had come back to life and I thought, "Wouldn't that be cool if there were a 4 leaf clover in there?" Well... as I cleared away some grass and weeds from it, I was shocked to discover that, not only did it come back to life, but it had produced a five leave clover!!
The next day, June 14th, it produced ... a 6 leaf clover!
God has been beyond generous and there is no doubt He is sending a message that this whole thing has been orchestrated beautifully. I believe starting with that grace of resignation to his will.
As His light continues to shine on Sr Wilhelmina's life, we will be forever grateful and humbled by these graces on our family.
Timeline of feast days & special days
2023
April 28th Fr Terrance Gordon dies and Sr Wilhelmina is
discovered
May 6th I started my first St Joseph Cloak Novena
May 11 Funeral at ICC and we hear the news about Sr Wilhelmina
May 22nd visit to Sr Wilhelmina. Touched my scapular to her
hand
May 31st found out we were pregnant with #11
June 4th Fr Berg comes over for dinner. I get a motherhood blessing and he blesses the St Joseph Statue
on our mantle
June 5th Last day of the month long St Joseph Prayers. I received
the Pure Heart of Joseph earrings in the mail and the gift of
confidence.
June 10th pregnancy announcement at my parents house with Fr Berg in
attendence
June 14th miscarriage of Basil William
November 11th LMP which places the due date for the next pregnancy with Vincent on
Aug 17th
December 14th discovered we are pregnant again! (announced Christmas
day in the tub at my parents -it's a family tradition)
2024
April 20th visit to the Abbey in Gower when I carried a single 3 leaf
clover all over the hike, planning to press it
August 11th Vincent Marcel born on his own at 39 weeks -sunny side
up
August 14th Vincent baptized by Fr Audino at Immaculate Conception
Omaha
2025
January 29th met with Dr Anne Edmonds ENT (she ordered the following
2 scans but then passed us off to someone more qualified)
Feb 18th CT Scan at Children's
March 12th MRI Scan at Children's
April 1st started 2nd St Joseph Cloak novena to end on the 30th
culminating on May1st
April 29th started 3rd St Joseph cloak novena to end May 28th before
the Ascension (overlapping by 2 days)
April 30th last day of the 2nd cloak prayers and consultation with Dr Dwight Jones about surgery for Vincent
May 1st 2025 St Joseph the worker feast and I received the 4 leaf
clover in the yard of my childhood home
May 2nd First appointment about achy teeth at McManigal Dentist. He
took scans and I started antibiotics from 5/3-5/12
May 7th Vincent’s surgery to remove glial heterotopia in his right
nostril
May 13th, the day we discovered his infection, is the feast of Our Lady
of Fatima
May 14th Gwyns water break confirmed at 2:03amCST Vinny had CT scan at
1am followed by lumbar puncture 2:23am and antibiotics started. 2:15pm
-ish was Vincent's MRI with 2nd class relic of Sr Wilhelmina scapular
and intercessions
3 days of unknown waiting Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
May 16th, the feast of St Simon Stock, (to whom Mary gave the
brown scapular) is the day we finally realized we may have
received a miracle with the MRI. Also my goddaughter had her very
Carmelite baby girl, laboring over the exact same 48 hours that Vinny
started antibiotics, until he started feeling better that morning.
Carolyn Victory 's birthday, a friend who recently passed from cancer.
St Gemma's feast day (her's was one of the 3rd class relic holycards
before the MRI) . Also that morning I went back to Mcmanigal dentist for
a follow up scan (after stopping by to nurse Vincent) After
offering to do it himself, he referred me to New Wave Dental for a root
canal the next week.
May 17th 100 years since St Therese was canonized
May 18th After finally finding my copy of the book "Gods Will" that was
published by the sisters, I brought it to the hospital and stuck 3 holy
cards together randomly in the pages. Later when I went to open
the book, I noticed they were randomly stuck in the page dedicated to St
Joseph❤️pg 63 The next morning blood labs saw it laying there and he
asked "whatcha reading?" I woke up from sleep and told him all about Sr
Wilhelmina!
May 18th went to Mass at ICC at 1pm and felt like I could ask big with
the faith of the woman with the hemorage
May 19th Fr Audino baptized goddaughter's baby, Adeline Therese Majella, in Virginia' Fr Audino had also baptized Vincent last August 14th here in Omaha. Started and shared novena leading up to the Ascension and feast of Sr Wilhelmina.
May 20th Fr Truong brought me communion. New Wave Dental
Appointment showed no fracture and the root is fine!
May 21st My oldest turned 23 and I received clover #3 in the tent at
Two Rivers as my 10 year old son started singing his solo of Salve
Mater
May 22nd the date I touched the brown scapular to Sr Wilhelmina in
2023, is also my goddaughter's birthday! This is Gwyn, who just had the
baby. Also the feast of St Rita. Vincent’s nurse this day is Jen who is
his 3rd cousin and it’s her mom’s birthday May 22nd (my2nd cousin)
May 25th Feast of the discovery of St Philomena's remains
May 26th Got released from the hospital. They had squeezed the last
couple days of doses tighter together so we could be released a day
early. Originally 14 days of antibiotics would end on May
27th.
May 27th 1995 is the date Sr Wilhelmina founded the Benedictines of
Mary. Thirty years later, to the day, we were able to drive to the Abbey
to attend Mass and give thanks to Almighty God and to Sr Wilhelmina for
her intercession
May 28th final day of prayers for my 3rd St Joseph Cloak
Novena.
May 29th Feast of the Ascension and 6 years since the death of Sr
Wilhelmina. We went to Fr Sulzen’s first Mass at noon at Immaculate
Conception Omaha in culmination and thanksgiving for the completion of my 3rd St Joseph
Cloak and Sr Wilhelmina novena
May 30th My oldest son closed on his house on Joseph Avenue (just an
added aside:) It's been a big month!
June 13th discovered a five leaf clover from a Gower weed
June 14th discovered a 6 leaf clover
**UPDATE** July 11th
This is getting ridiculously long but I'm using this as documentation so I'm going to go ahead and update and add this in too. It's another little connection that happened after arriving home from the hospital that I feel is worth mentioning.
Today is the feast of St Benedict, and Vincent turns 11 months on the 11th. it's like his golden birthday.
The night Vincent and I got home from the hopsital, back in May, I had already made up my mind to go to Gower in thanksgiving the next day, but I was having doubts as to if it would be prudent since Vinny just got out of the hospital. Less than 30 minutes after arriving at home though, I saw this holy card on the table that holds the kids school books.
I asked the kids who put that there and no one knew anything.
The day before, I met the woman cleaning our room. Her name was LaShea. We had a really nice talk and she said she would be back the next day. However, the next day(monday) the day we left, there was a different woman cleaning the room and her name was Florance, and we had a really nice talk too. The other cleaning ladies were friendly and talkative, but we didn't get into deep discussions like the ones that happened with these 2 women.
Anyway, since Florance isn't a very common name, and I just met her a couple hours before coming home. Seeing that holy card laying there saying "go to Joseph" and noticing that Fr Florance's ordination date was May 29th, it gave me more confidence to go give thanks with the Benedictines the next morning, and that's when I pulled the weed.
Then just now as I was searching photos for "Florance" this comes up from 2023. They were ordained to the subdiaconate on February 11th, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
In my search it was just these 2 holy cards and an image of the Annunciation, (the Fra Angelico from Florence Italy)
God bless these priests!
On the way home I snagged a screenshot of the GPS, noticing that to get to Sr Wilhelmina, we go to St Joseph and turn East at the 4 leaf clover.
Last Saturday I heard the story of the miraculous healing of a SSPX priest's heart through Sr Wilhelmina's intercession. When I visited Gower on Wednesday, Sr Misericordia filled in the details. Its another amazing story! I'll share it on here when I get permission, until then I'm telling people in person. It could be very unifying between the fssp and the sspx.
Yesterday June 10th, on the way back from a grocery store we usually don't go to, I saw this beautiful billboard. And today on the way home from a newly started tutoring session, I pulled over and got this picture...
It's the Face of the Shroud, asking God to heal our hearts.
Then last night I got to attend the talk at ICC by Fr Carney on devotion to the Holy Face. It really resonated with me. After so many years of hearing about this devotion, I'm hearing it loud and clear ..now is the time to join!
I've sent in my enrollment as of today 7/11
Thank you Jesus. Please do Heal our hearts!π