Seventy-eight and still Fighting for the Faith!

It's my birthday -- 78 today! My parents named me Mary because of Our Lady's feast day. What a blessing to share our Blessed Mother's name!

I suffered a severe vertigo attack last Thursday and am still wobbly so we'll be having a low key, at-home celebration today with a surprise dinner made with love (not by me) and a chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Since my birthday always falls in Lent, except rare Easter dates, I excuse myself from my Lenten sacrifices and celebrate the gift of life. I will enjoy a guilt-free slice of cake and a glass of wine.

One of the things I like to do on my birthday is gift others. Today I think I will wrap up some little presents as placecards for grandchildren, and I just wrote a check to the Lepanto Institute. Facebook asked if I wanted to raise funds for a non-profit, but Lepanto wasn't one of the ones offered. Many of the organizations mentioned are deeply involved in abortion and cannibalizing the little ones yanked from the womb for research. NO THANKS! But if you'd like to send a check to the Lepanto Institute I'd be most grateful. 

Michael Hichborn, Lepanto's founder and president, is a man of unquestioned integrity and his research is spot on. He is one of the laity Fulton Sheen meant when he said that the Catholic faithful will save the Church. I'm only 78 and intend to stick to my mission to help "save the Church" mostly through prayer and suffering. I hope my keyboard efforts do some good as well. I'm not dead yet and I refuse to quit. Give me the grace, Lord, to persevere until the end. Holy Mother Church is worth fighting for.

Let's roll!