Rosary Beads

These are our Rosary beads. Well, the girls' and mine anyway.

Mark doesn't have any.

Mine are the black ones, farthest to the left. When I was in high school, my seminarian, now priest friend Ned Blick went to Rome. He surprised me with a package sent to my parents house, in it were 2 rosaries, one for me and one for my friend Anne. She is now a nun, known as Sr Mary Elizabeth. Anyway, he got these 2 rosaries from Rome, and when he got to meet the Pope, he let Ned insert our names into the blessing of the beads. Now, how cool is that?

Valleri got her rosary as a gift for her baptism, from Mark. They are pretty white pearls, wrapped in real gold wiring.It is a beautiful rosary for a beautiful baptism. Everything was as it should be, the white gown, given to her by her grandma and papa, in a Church, with all her family around her, and her godparents.

Emily's rosary was also given to her by her dad, but it is solid stainless steel. Quite heavy, and plain, but equally as beautiful. It is very strong, and solid. Emily was baptized, by a priest who was summoned to the hospital when she had a seizure, at a time that he and we, thought he was going to have to administer last rites, but she pulled through, and is perfect. She was buck naked, strapped to a gurney, not even really concious. But, just as beautiful. Grandma and Papa got her that white dress too, when she left the hospital.

Mark used to say that Val's baptism was what everyone wanted theirs to be, and Emily's was what it was meant to be.