Last Friday's Photos

Path, originally uploaded by reedfamilypicks.

Path

Last Friday's Photos

Banyan Tree, originally uploaded by reedfamilypicks.

Banyan Tree

Baby Update

This is about what our baby looks like at this point.

Here is a break down of the next few weeks of development.

WEEK 12 - Nearly all organs and structures are formed. Fingers and toes are separated, hair and nails begin to grow. Genitals take on gender characteristics, and the kidneys begin producing and excreting urine.

WEEK 13 - The vocal chords form, and eyes and ears begin to move into normal position. Sex is determinable, although still too small to see in an ultrasound. The liver and pancreas are now functioning.

WEEK 14 - The fetus is now 3 1/2 inches long and weighs one to two ounces. It has begun inhaling and exhaling movements, and hands are becoming functional. All nourishment is now received from the placenta.

The Feast of the Assumption of Mary

The belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is founded on the apocryphal treatise De Obitu S. Dominae, bearing the name of St. John, which belongs however to the fourth or fifth century. It is also found in the book De Transitu Virginis, falsely ascribed to St. Melito of Sardis, and in a spurious letter attributed to St. Denis the Areopagite. If we consult genuine writings in the East, it is mentioned in the sermons of St. Andrew of Crete, St. John Damascene, St. Modestus of Jerusalem and others. In the West, St. Gregory of Tours (De gloria mart., I, iv) mentions it first. The sermons of St. Jerome and St. Augustine for this feast, however, are spurious. St. John of Damascus (P. G., I, 96) thus formulates the tradition of the Church of Jerusalem:

St. Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, at the Council of Chalcedon (451), made known to the Emperor Marcian and Pulcheria, who wished to possess the body of the Mother of God, that Mary died in the presence of all the Apostles, but that her tomb, when opened, upon the request of St. Thomas, was found empty; wherefrom the Apostles concluded that the body was taken up to heaven.

Today, the belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is universal in the East and in the West; according to Benedict XIV (De Festis B.V.M., I, viii, 18) it is a probable opinion, which to deny were impious and blasphemous. -props to New Advent

Friday Photos

Isaac - August 4, 2005

This photo was taken today on Isaac's one year birthday. August 4, 2006. (I tried to match the pose but he was little more active today, he just about fell off the changing table.)







This photo was taken within the first minute or two after Isaac was born.

One year ago today.

Our Baby's Development

WEEK 9 - At this time cartilage and bones are developing, and the basic structure of the eye is well underway. The tongue develops, and short, webbed fingers and thumbs appear.