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The mission of The Cake Angels is to prayerfully provide a personalized, home baked and decorated birthday cake to the ill, elderly, and others in need.

What would a birthday be without cake?  It is so simple, yet so meaningful.  A child’s first birthday is vitally important to his or her family.  New parents would never dream of letting it pass by without a cake to commemorate the occasion.  And so it goes throughout our lives.  Each year we celebrate, and we remember one another’s birthdays through the simple act of lighting the candles, singing the "Happy Birthday” song, and cutting the cake.  As we blow out the candles, we not only make a wish for our future, but, especially as we grow older, we also think back to birthdays past.  It is a traditional act that makes us feel that we are special and that our lives are important.

Even the young children seem to instinctively know what type of cakes they want on their special days.  They start forming their ideas, sometimes six months in advance, and wait with great anticipation for that glorious day of celebration. Whether it be a vanilla cake shaped like a teddy bear or a chocolate cake with rich chocolate frosting, we all, in the spirit of a child, have a particular fondness for one type of cake or another.  We sometimes happily recall that one particular cake from our childhood birthday party, and who doesn’t light up when they see a layer cake dripping with pink icing?

The message behind the cake is always the same: Celebrating life ­- no matter what birthday we are coming up on -- is essential.  All this being true, the last birthday of a person’s life should not only not be forgotten, but it should also be an expression of the same love that was shared on his or her very first birthday.  This is the mission of our volunteer cake service, and prayer is a vital component of this expression of love.

“Let love be sincere; hate what is evil, hold on to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; anticipate one another in showing honor.  Do not grow slack in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.  Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer.  Contribute to the needs of the holy ones, exercise hospitality.”
 - Romans 12, 9-13

Yes, our clients receive a beautifully decorated and delicious cake to honor their day, but it is more than just baking on our part.  We have been given a unique opportunity to personally offer prayers for those who are suffering.  Using such prayers as "The Chaplet of Divine Mercy" (see also "59beads"), we pray for those we help so that they may receive God’s grace as they face their illnesses and, possibly, their deaths.

Our Lord said to Saint Faustina:

"Encourage souls to say the Chaplet which I have given you…  Whoever will recite it will receive great mercy at the hour of death…  When they say the chaplet in the presence of the dying, I will stand between My Father and the dying person, not as the just Judge but as the merciful Savior...  I desire to grant unimaginable graces to those souls who trust in My mercy…  through the Chaplet you will obtain everything, if what you ask for is compatible with My will."
 - Divine Mercy in My Soul
   Diary of Saint Maria Faustina, pp. 687, 1541, and 1731
   Visit "Marians of the Immaculate Conception" for additional information and the complete chaplet prayers.

“We remember. We celebrate. We believe.”
 - from the contemporary hymn by Marty Haugen

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