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“Our prayer for them is capable not only of helping them, but also of making their intercession for us effective.” {CCC 958}
🤍🌹🪦🔆 All Soul’s Day 2023 🔆🪦🌹🤍 A day WELL-spent visiting family graves alongside a very loving family. On last years All Souls cemetery visits, I was pregnant with my little sugar, Cambrie. This year, BOTH of my little ones got to see and experience what I hope will become one of the most important traditions…
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Fr. Mike Schmitz: Homily for the LOST
Don’t listen to the future-focused “what ifs”… choose to focus on “what is” in the present. Grow a grateful mindset. God knows your heart better than you know it. God loves you bigger & better than you love yourself. With these, KNOW that you can trust him.
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Unexpected Empathy for the Son of Man
“I feel bad for Jesus.” That’s the comment I got last Wednesday from one of my dear 3rd/4th-grade kiddos. It was the last session of 5 that covered the Trinity, Jesus being fully God & fully man, Jesus as the Lamb of God in the new Passover, the Crucifixion & Resurrection. So, we’ve been hitting…
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Esther, Girl
If God has put you in a position, it is for a PURPOSE.
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The Most Important Disciples You Will Have Are Sitting At Your Kitchen Table.
{ In all of your days, what memories tend to stand out most when you think about LOVE? What about real laughter & true happiness? } Who are the people around you in some of your best memories? And what about the bad days? Who is almost guaranteed to put a smile on your face…
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What you didn’t hear in today’s news – LifeNews
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Our Carpenter’s Mother
The Assumption of Mary takes place every year on the 15th of August. It’s considered one of the Holy Days of Obligation when Catholics are expected to attend Mass and be in the presence of the Eucharist – just like every Sunday. Mary is the beautiful virgin mother of our Lord, Jesus Christ (our famous…
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Mama Shepherd
To My Fellow Mama Shepherds: Your God-given vocation of motherhood is the very thing of miracles. Do not let the world let you forget how important you are in His mission. I know… we’re exhausted, hangry, over-stimulated & pulled in every direction simultaneously each mday. <<Slow down, mama.>> While you’re picking up the living room and returning the…
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3:10 [TO HEAVEN]
Life is but a stopping place,a pause in what’s to be,a resting place along theroad to sweet eternity.We all have different journeys,different paths along the way,we all were meant to learn somethings, but never meant to stay.Our destination is a placefar greater than we know,for some, the journey’s quicker,for some the journey’s slow.And when the…
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First Blooms of Summer
Cambrie’s “Ballet Slippers” Hibiscus was the first one to bloom this year! Mac’s won’t be far behind… The buds on Baby J’s hibiscus are still closed but I’ll remain patient – it hasn’t failed me yet. “Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity,…
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PRO-LIFE Soap Box
..[a life is a life is a life].. A baby in the womb is just as deserving of life as you and me – remember that famous little tidbit about “the RIGHT to life, liberty, & happiness”? Baby doesn’t know how they came to be (meaning through voluntary acts or the rare involuntary ones) ……
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Mac & the Courage Growl
“May all children be blessed with the gift of play, imagination, free time, and the space to be outdoors to explore. May they wonder at the marvels of God’s creation. May they have the treasure of real human beings who hold their hands while they explore the world, who rock them to sleep and sing…
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Living on a Prayer
Papa would get on his knees and this is how he would pray: He’d say, “God, it’s Bud here. I tilled the ground. Got it all plowed up. I put the seeds out. I got everything ready. The rest is Yours. All of what I did means nothing if You don’t bring the rain. I…
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It’s a Pretty Blue & Pink World
< I had an interesting conversation with my two-and-a-half-yr-old toddler last night. I’m going to preface this post by saying that we do not use any type of gender pronouns in our home… > When Mac has questioned certain body parts, I name them and associate them with either “daddy, because he’s a boy like…
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Just a Catholic wife and mama of two young babies trying to spread love of the Lord & keep traditional values alive.
