So There seems to be a State (Bavaria) wide holiday pretty frequently here, and I think almost every holiday...if not every one, is related to Catholicism. At least 95%. Today's holiday, August 15th, is Assumption Day or Mariä Himmelfahrt. Basically it celebrates the day the the Virgin Mary's earthly life was over and she ascended to heaven. They (according to the text I'm reading) very literally mean that her tomb was empty, that her actual physical body left the Earth and went up to heaven, not in the way that you or I (general sweeping) would say someone went to heaven. Of course, there is also room to believe that she hadn't died before she went to heaven, according to some teaching and some of what I'm reading....that was according to Pope Pius XII. So yes.
I recently finished a book called "No Turning Back : A Witness To Mercy". It's by Father Donald Calloway, MIC.
No Turning Back |
So yes. That is what I've been reading lately. St. Babs sent it to me after my TWLOHA post and I am grateful, I loved it. Other than reading and researching every German Holiday, all I have been doing is...nothing. Because I can't do much. My breathing/heart issues aren't getting better. Sometimes it feels like they're getting worse. I have my appointment to get my referral to Weiden for the CT scan tomorrow though, so hopefully that's soon (I think they said the 17th but then I thought that's what I was doing tomorrow so then I just got confused). I hate CT scans but the last time I had one I had a concussion and it kinda tripped me out so I'm sure this one will be less scary. I think I need to be hospitalized and have heart monitors hooked up to me for more than 5 minutes. I think they need to monitor it for a little while so that they can catch it when it does the speed up really really fast then stop skip a beat or two then go normal again thing....it does that about once a day now. But on the same hand, I can't be hospitalized. Taylor isn't in school, so there isn't anyone to take care of her, and even when she is in school, there's no one to watch her after school. Danny's unit is NOT the most accommodating. I get this feeling that if there is something seriously wrong with me (this is crazy Bri talking) I will die before it gets fixed because there's just simply no one that can help with Taylor and the dogs etc, especially when Danny's in the field at the end of the month...I certainly couldn't be in the hospital then. Ugh.
So that's the "I'm still sick" rant/update. I just tried to do a few things around the house, it didn't work out so well, I can't breathe now. So I sat down to try to catch my breath and now I feel like I am going to pass out from exhaustion. I woke up at 10! It's 3:30! I should not be tired. Lack of oxygen screws with ya man.
Double ugh. Later y'all :) Here's hoping for Weiden!
Mom and I decided you should go to Medjugorjia (??) where Mary appears to the faithful and maybe you could get healed...its in Croatia. (And That all sounded really catholicy and I didn't mean it too lol) But regardless...you like the religion stuff so much you should go there. Its a site of a Virgin Mary sighting, and a miracle or 2 I think. And its just in Croatia, so not tooooo terribly far for you. So yeah, you should go there. LOL
ReplyDeletereally? repeat your self much Laura? I think I need to go back to bed...
ReplyDeleteOn the same subject, they have a healing Mass every day. A bunch of my friends will be there from Sept. 29 thru Oct.5. They would love you as much as you them.
ReplyDeleteI had to look at my map up there to see where I am in relation to Croatia...how sad is that lol...I don't know where Croatia is :( It doesn't look like it's too far...but we still haven't gotten our tourist passports yet. Soon, very soon. Like applying within the next couple of weeks. So if they came in soon...it could be very very possible...
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting on my Mom to get back to me, she's getting in touch with my probable bio-Dad to find out what my probable Aunt died of...she died while at about 35 of some heart issues...so if it's genetic...and it has a name, maybe I can tell them...then the healing mass or the Doctors or someone could do something and it would have a name.
Now I have something new to Google!!! But not at 12:38am, I have to get up early. Thank you ladies, I love you both!!!!! xoxoxox