Spirit babsie bleasdell autobiography

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She was a remarkable woman who worked assiduously in her lifetime.
She wrote three books: Growing in Praise; Babsie, Go Teach My People; and Refresh Your Life in the Spirit.

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Catholic Charismatic Renewal pioneer and internationally renowned Catholic Charismatic preacher and author, Ursula “Auntie Babsie” Bleasdell.

Ursula Marie Crescence Bleasdell, nee Barnes was the second to last child of Woodford Edward and Josephine Barnes, born 16 June 1921.

Her siblings included Irene, Sylvester, Cyril, Henry and Calistra (Baby Look Loy).

She married Lionel McHenry Mapp in 1944 and had 2 daughters Erica (1945) and Paula (1946). After the breakdown of that marriage in 1952, she later married Tommy Bleasdell in 1958.

Auntie Babsie, together with Raffick Abasali, and Cecil “Pa” Gomes, served as Councillors and Aldermen in the Arima Borough Council with Rupert Clovis as Mayor of Arima. Such was their concern for our Arima, they did all they could to look after all Arimians, not just their own families.

These nurturing parents of the families in our formative years truly touched all of our Arima young people lives for the better. These dear parents cared for us with so much love and affection. Out of this association, the “A-Teens” Group was formed of the many

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Catholic women called to action

With the approach of the season when Christians most contemplate the Virgin Mary, Ursula "Babsie" Bleasdell came to town to tell Roman Catholic women that they've got to be about the work of Jesus' mother.

"We are in big trouble," she warned.

Children have lost their innocence, she said. Abortions are rampant. AIDS is pandemic.

"Guess what? God is looking at you," she told the 300 Catholic women from around Pinellas County who had put off Saturday morning obligations to converge at Banquet Masters for her talk.

"You are the people of God," she said. "He is calling on us to save the children. We have to take on the mantle of Mary."

The 82-year-old woman has long been accustomed to speaking her mind. To the people she serves and works with in her native Trinidad, she's Auntie Babsie. That's also the way she was introduced at the Saturday morning prayer breakfast organized by the St. Petersburg chapter of Magnificat, a national Catholic ministry that encourages women to share their faith.

On the morning of Nov. 22, Auntie Babsie delivered

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The Editor: Congratulations to those four women in the local Church on their reception of the Papal Award. They have made us proud. May God continue to bless them as they live out their vocation in the service of God’s people. Two of them are leaders of lay ecclesial communities.

My grandmother used to say, “What I do not live to see, the ants will bring the good news to me in the grave.” Hopefully that good news was delivered to Ursula ‘Babsie’ Bleasdell (deceased). With her winsome smile and provocative laughter, she must have said, “Well done, sisters!”

Youths and many other persons might ask, ‘Who is that person?’ To give a little insight, she was a remarkable woman who worked assiduously in her lifetime. She left an incredible, and for me an indelible, influence on the local Church during the latter part of the 20th century.

She was a teacher, politician, wife, mother, divorcee. God called her to a new way of life to live under the power of the Holy Spirit. She became author, storyteller, and an internationally acclaimed speaker. Through patient enduran