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!
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!
ROSARY UPDATE: Happy Sunday, Friends! Here are the prototypes for the 3 different rosaries we are offering made from the dried roses from our August 15th 2nd-anniversary celebration–two silver ($125) and one gold ($135). All of them have Fatima centers. If you want GOLD and have already sent the $125 payment, please send an additional $10 via Venmo (@Kitty-Cleveland, last 4 digits of phone: 5676) or check (payable to Christiaria, LLC, PO Box 843, Madisonville, LA 70447).
If you have not ordered a rosary, you may still do so. They each take about 20 hours to make, so please be patient. 🙂
I need each person below to indicate in the comments (either here below or on Facebook in our Kitty’s Morning Glories group, where you can find an identical post) their selection with either Gold, Silver#1, or Silver #2. Thanks! They’re going to be gorgeous! Here are the checks we have received so far:
Adele Parker Ann Genovese Nieves Limoges Camille Jarrell Carol Corby Cecilia Pribyl Celeste Plauche Connie Bocchieri Corrine Breaud Cyrel Antonatos Deborah Fortina Denise Singleton Diane Boyd-Kosarich Donna Miller Edna Vargas Flory Reynolds Gabrielle Husers Gail Callahan Gert Kliebert Gloria Piette Grace Molina Gretchen De Gruy Helena Domingue Irma Villarreal Jane Malo Jennifer Carter Jill Fitzpatrick Jill Fitzpatrick Janitzia Horne Joann Worley Jolie Leblanc Juliette Swiler Kathy Maggio Kathy Reed Kim Paschall Kristina Bromley Lee De La Housssaye Lizette Coleman Lola Mahler Marcia Waguespack Margaret Cortez Maria Ecuyer Mariette Manual Martha Blanchard Mary Edens Mary Lynne Marquardt Maureen Stanoch Melanie Arnold Melissa Miller-Benson Michelle Thomson Mike Fulmer Nancy Noble Nicole Becnel Nila Sigler Opal Boudreaux Paige Rosato Pamela Abide Patricia Garcia Sarah Parrott Sharon Hebert Shelbey Thayer Shelley Domingue Shelley Pribyl Sinia Urreta-Vacca Stacey Bumpus Stephanie Drewes Sue Zaunbrecher Theresa Falcone Theresa Robinson Tracy Barringer Tracy Read Trudy Currier Veronica McAteer
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!
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:
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.
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
CHECK: Payable to Christiaria, LLC, PO Box 843, Madisonville, LA 70447
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
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!
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).
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.
