Dear Friends, The final details of my latest painting—including morning glories, daylilies, and night-blooming jasmine—are now finished. Hooray! “Gate of Heaven” is available as an 8×10 signed and numbered, hand-finished canvas. You can purchase by sending $135 per canvas via Venmo Friends and Family (@Kitty-Cleveland), which saves us both a little money, or on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1363511974/gate-of-heaven. I am happy to put a special date on the back for you–just indicate in the comments. God bless you!

Dear Friends,

I cannot begin to tell you how thrilled I was at your response to our Mission of Mercy to feed the poor, especially poor children. The total amount raised on the Givebutter platform and in private donations to me was $54,206.38! Incredible. After consulting with my Board of Directors, “Dr. Jane,” and learning of the needs of different ministries, we decided to distribute those funds in memory of our beloved Fr. Otis Young and Ruth Prats as follows, with the stipulation that we want the funds to be directed towards feeding children:

• $1,000 to Sr. Teresa Berlin (Holy Family Hospitality Hermitage, Inc.): Sr. Teresa is a fixture in the Covington, LA, community, where she operates the Blue Stand in our poorest neighborhood. She simply feeds people and loves them, as she has done for years. This is especially meaningful since the killer of our beloved pastor, Fr. Otis Young, and our dear friend Ruth Prats, was from this neighborhood. It was a concrete way to repay evil with good by donating to Sr. Teresa’s mission.
• $4,000 to the St. Vincent de Paul Society (St. Peter, Covington, LA): The St. Vincent de Paul Society provides grocery vouchers and basic assistance in emergency situations to the area poor. They do home visits to build relationships, establish actual need, and help them grow in greater self-reliance.
• $5,000 to Feeding the Needy: Feeding the Needy is an initiative of the Covington Rotary Club, which ensures that school children are fed while school cafeterias are closed for the long winter break at Christmastime. Every year on December 23 and 24, volunteers from all over the area come together to prepare Christmas boxes that include:  a 12-14 pound cooked turkey with 6 side dishes and dessert.  Each box has enough food to feed a family of four.  Larger families receive additional boxes. On Christmas morning, Rotarians and other community volunteers hand deliver the boxes to the homes of the identified families. Each family only needs to heat the food and it is ready to serve as a substantial Christmas Day meal and leave plenty of extra to help on the days leading up to school reopening.
• $5,000 to the Northshore Food Bank: Northshore Food Bank provides food assistance to more than 300 individuals and families each week who live at or below the 130% federal poverty guidelines and have found themselves in need within our community. After qualifying for assistance, an individual can receive at least 40 lbs. of food once each month, and families can receive at least 70 lbs. of food each month. Depending on donations, recipients may also receive what they call a “lagniappe” box. A lagniappe box may be filled with breads, pastries, dairy products, fresh produce, or frozen foods.
• $5,000 to Our Daily Bread: Our Daily Bread is a food bank in Hammond, LA, that has faithfully served the disadvantaged of Tangipahoa Parish since 1999. Their mission is to alleviate hunger and make an eternal impact by sharing kindness and compassion with everyone who is in need. They currently serve over 10,000 hot meals a month.
• $5,000 to Our Friends Closet: Our Friends Closet provides much-needed items to homeless and low-income students in our community, including individually-wrapped snacks and meals for those students that do not have food available to them after school, on weekends, and during school breaks. They also provide personal hygiene products and other dignity items to students in need.
• $5,000 to Restoration House: Restoration House Pregnancy Resource Center provides (among many other services to women in crisis pregnancies) diapers, wipes, formula, and clothing to mothers and families of children newborn to 5t. While the primary mission of Restoration House is to support women in crisis pregnancies, they also provide much-needed baby formula for women who need help feeding their babies after they are born.

That brings our total disbursements to $30,000. The remaining $24, 206.38 will be distributed in 2023 as we assess the most urgent food needs in the coming months. May God bless all of you who participated in this beautiful Mission of Mercy!

With joy and humble gratitude for your kindness,

Hello, friends! Below you will find the links and content I mention in my videos for the Pray More Healing retreat. I’m praying for the power of the Holy Spirit to flood you with healing grace and merciful love. 

With joy,

Kitty 

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Talk 1: Putting Christ at the Center

1) Come start your day by praying the LIVE rosary with me—new spontaneous meditations every day! You’ll be part of a fantastic community of hundreds of people, whom we affectionately call the “Morning Glories.” You can find me (and sometimes special guests) on YouTube and on Instagram every weekday morning at 6:00 am CT. If that time doesn’t work for you, our recordings are always available online. On the weekends you can pray along with the “Kitty’s Morning Glories” community at 7:00 am CT on our Facebook page. You can also ask for prayer and will find other enriching content. Join us!

2) If you’re looking for a nuts-and-bolts primer on the spiritual life, check out my friend Dr. Brant Pitre’s new book, Introduction to the Spiritual Life. It’s a gem. And if you’re looking for exciting, relevant, free videos on the spiritual life, check out The Mission on the Mountain, where you’ll find some of my other videos, as well (even a cautionary tale about dabbling in the occult).

Talk 2: Learning How to Trust in God

Songs:

1. God Will Provide
2. Surrender
3. Be Not Afraid
4. God Alone Is Enough

Video: To watch my personal testimony about my Dad’s imprisonment and our Divine Mercy miracle, click here.

Live Rosary:

1. Kitty’s LIVE Daily Rosary on YouTube (M-F at 6 am CT–please click the red “Subscribe” button!)
2. Kitty’s LIVE Daily Rosary on Instagram (M-F at 6 am CT–please click the “Follow” button!)

Facebook: The “Kitty’s Morning Glories” page is where the people who join me for the daily rosary share prayer requests and interesting tidbits of a Catholic nature, as well as announcements and updates to our events. Come hang out with us!

Talk 3: Trusting & Surrendering to God’s Will

Live Rosary: I’d love to have you join me and a wonderful group of people for the LIVE daily rosary on either Instagram or YouTube–and the meditations are different every day! We start a few minutes before 6 am CT, but the recordings are always available for you if a later time works better:

1. Kitty’s Instagram page
2. Kitty’s YouTube channel

You can also find us on the weekends at 7 am CT on Facebook at the Kitty’s Morning Glories page, with terrific guest leaders. It’s also a great place to ask for prayer and get a feel for our little online community.

Songs: 

1. Surrender

Videos:

1. Kitty’s Divine Mercy miracle story about her dad
2. Kitty’s reading of Searching for and Maintaining Peace by Fr. Jacques Philippe.

Books:

1. He Leadeth Me by Walter Cizek, SJ
2. With God in Russia by Walter Cizek, SJ
3. Searching for and Maintaining Peace by Jacques Philippe

Talk 4: Recovering from Life’s Disappointments

Books: What Does God Want? by Fr. Michael Scanlan

We are beyond thrilled with the response to our first event, which has filled up a month in advance. I decided to cap it at 350 people this time but hope to do more in the future with a larger capacity. To God be the glory!

Hey, friends! If you would like to order one of these signed Morning Glory mugs with my painting of the Holy Family, please send $20 if you will pick them up at our celebration on August 15th or $25 if you want us to ship them to you. I will be signing the painting on the mug in gold oil paint. It will be a great way to drink your morning coffee as we pray the rosary together!

The mug is BPA-free, microwaveable & top shelf dishwasher safe.

PAYMENT OPTIONS

1. CHECK: Payable to Christiaria, LLC, PO Box 843, Madisonville, LA 70447
2. VENMO APP: Send to @Kitty-Cleveland. NOTE: Please don’t toggle “goods and services” so I can avoid the fraud protection fee. I promise that I will not defraud you. 🙂 This
3. is what my profile looks like on Venmo:

Forgive the late notice, friends, but I just sent this information to someone and thought I’d make it a blog post. Hope this is helpful to you, as the graces available to you next Sunday are extraordinary!

1) Start here to get the background of what Divine Mercy is all about: https://www.thedivinemercy.org/celebrate

2). How to pray the chaplet: You can find all of the information about how to pray the Divine Mercy chaplet on rosary beads here: https://www.thedivinemercy.org/message/devotions/pray-the-chaplet

3). Kitty’s recordings: Today, Good Friday, is the start of the Divine Mercy novena (nine days of prayer in imitation of the disciples waiting and praying for 9 days after the Ascension before Pentecost). I have two options for you if you’d like to do it with my recordings: the spoken version (recorded in 2021) and the sung version (a bit longer, recorded in 2020).

2021 SPOKEN version: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2x9ZVy2Ka-64bR08qykb5b581imYVG5M

2020 SUNG version: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2x9ZVy2Ka-4WS-UyjVOCF8mtUwRvS7m9

You can find all of the videos on my YouTube channel (www.YouTube.com/kittycleveland) under “Playlists.”

4) Getting to confession in the next week is so important—you will not regret it, I promise! This short video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWxp5BNgmVY) and this examination of conscience (https://media.ascensionpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Examination-of-Conscience-7-Deadly-Sins.pdf)
will help you prepare well. Don’t worry—the priest remembers nothing!

God bless you this Easter Triduum and always,

Kitty

I’ll be giving my testimony at the Baton Rouge Magnificat prayer breakfast on Saturday, February 12, 2022. Y’all grab some friends and come join in the fun! Register online by clicking here.