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Welcome to "Thoughts for Moms"
Dear Friends,
"Thoughts for Mom" is a special place to receive spiritual
sustenance related to the vocation of motherhood. Here I will post
various reflections — from popes, saints, and Catholic writers,
to my thoughts and yours — to help us better live our mission
as Moms, and to help us give our vocation the depth of meaning God
intended it to have.
Once
more, you and I both have something to share, so please join me
in adding meditations and personal insights in the comments section
under each post, or contacting me at holly@mothersruleoflife.com
with your own reflection to add.
God Bless,
Holly Pierlot
How To Change Bad Habits - Part Two
"A right philosophy of life is needed to complete the work, for evil habits cannot be overcome by the will alone; love is required as well. No alcoholic is cured until he finds something to value more highly than the attractions of alcohol. No other evil is renounced until the sinner finds some positive good he prizes above his sin... Evil habits are not driven out by our hate of them (for we do not always hate them properly). They are crowded out by the love of something else... [and] the new love that takes possession of us must be bigger than ourselves... for it is ourselves which need amendment."
Fulton Sheen, in "Way to Happiness", Greenwich Conn., Crest Book, 1961, p165
posted by Holly at 9:07 PM
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How to Change Bad Habits... Part One
"I have a bad temper," or... "I am lazy" are familiar complaints from those who still believe that nobility of character is an important goal. They would not make such admissions if they did not have a strong desire to break the chain of evil habits. They can realize this desire - any bad habit can be broken. But getting free of it requires 4 things:
1. Introspection - is necessary in order that we shall isolate the habit and see it clearly as sin...
2. Avoiding the Occasions of sin - keeping out of the situations that lead up to trouble
3. An Act of Will - we have acquired bad habits only... by a consent of the will, until they became automatic and perhaps even unconscious. To master them, we must reverse the process and use the will to break their automatic functioning
Quoted and paraphrased: Fulton J Sheen, in "Way to Happiness" , Greenwich Conn., Crest Book, 1961, p164-165
posted by Holly at 8:10 AM
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The Task of Parenthood
"Children very soon learn about life. They watch and imitate the behavior of adults. They rapidly learn love and respect for others, but they also quickly absorb the poison of violence and hatred. Family experiences strongly condition the attitudes that children will assume as adults.... Catholic parents must learn to form their family as [a] domestic Church, a Church in the home where God is honored, His law respected, prayer is a normal event, virtue is transmitted by word and example, and everyone shares the hopes, the problems and sufferings of everyone else."
Pope John Paul II, in "Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love:, Edit: Jospeh Durepos, Chicago, Loyola Press, 2003, pp148,150
posted by Holly at 8:42 PM
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Understanding How to Love
"What I am can only be received by the other who gives me his full attention, who is present to me and becomes aware of what I am, and that I am good and worthwhile. The other who wills his awareness of me opens his consciousness to my being, and comes to know, that is, possess my goodness. His evident finding delight in my goodness will be perceived by me. I am revealed to myself as good. I have received from the other what I am. I am no longer alone... a truly affirming parent [or spouse] is one who, when reasonably possible, drops everything in order to let [the other] unburden himself or ask questions while giving him his concentrated attention before advising him..."
Catholic Psychiatrist Conrad Baars, M.D., in "Born Only Once", Illinois, Franciscan Press, Quincy University, 2001, pp 28, 39
posted by Holly at 8:49 PM
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The Handmaid of the Lord
Today is the Feast of the Annunciation - a special day for us Moms! Mary, our model, our mother - mother herself and perfect disciple - teaches us exactly how to live our lives : along the same lines that she lived her family life with Joseph and Jesus. She teaches us that perfect discipleship and total holiness comes from saying "Yes" to the Lord - "Let it be done unto me according to Thy Word."
So too for us. Let us renew our "Yes" to God today and consecrate ourselves to the Blessed Mother's Immaculate Heart - asking her to intercede for us in our family life; to help us be good and holy moms; to lead our hearts to imitate her total openess to God, so that she can repeat in our hearts "Behold the handmaid of the Lord - I will do all that You ask Lord, because You ask it, out of love for You!"
posted by Holly at 11:39 AM
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It's Our Job Now...
As we wait and watch with our dearest Holy Father , Pope John Paul II, as he goes through his own personal crucifixion, let us be open to what God is telling us. Look around our world and see what is happening.
In my lifetime, there have been three 'super-saints' : Padre Pio, Mother Teresa, and Pope John Paul. With his death, what holiness on earth will stem the tide of evil? What super-saint will take over from the Pope as a living and breathing witness to Christ? Who is being called?
WE ARE, ladies, WE ARE. WE are called to be the next saints. The responsibility for becoming holy falls upon us, to take over where the Pope leaves off. A tremendous force of little saints, living in the heart of Christ... It's our job now...
posted by Holly at 11:55 AM
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