Quiet Day

All is quiet here on the home front. After a couple of hours in the dentist's chair yesterday for two crowns (the dentist says that's nothing, sometimes people have seven or eight at once....yikes!) and then some bustling about doing errands, no time remained for blogging. Today we have spent our time preparing for Annie's 12Th birthday surprise party which turns out not to be a surprise after all....she wormed it out of us. Suffice it to say I haven't had much on my mind on the Catholic front, except to wonder who the patron saint of dentists might be. And, as promised, I have been praying as I go about the cleaning.

When I first became Catholic I was overwhelmed with all of the available saints, angels, patrons, guardians, and then Mary, to accompany me on my prayer journey. Who to turn to first? Now I simply call upon my favorites, Padre Pio, Mother Theresa and Therese,followed by a general cry to all the saints and angels (after all we do that during Mass) and then a special appeal to Mary. It seems to work out, so far. I don't know enough about their particular traits to call upon one saint or another in highly specific situations, like being in the dentist's chair. That could change of course. For now I will continue to draw upon those saints I know a bit about and leave the rest to their mercy. For all I know there is a patron saint of birthdays who even now is keeping a special eye on tomorrow.