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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
Toward Spouse and Children...
"Any bitterness or bad temper or anger or shouting or abuse must be far removed from you - as must every kind of malice. Be generous to one another, sympathetic, forgiving each other as readily as God forgave you in Christ... take Him as your pattern, and follow Christ by loving as He loved you, giving Himself up for us...."
Ephesians 4:31-5:1a
posted by Holly at 1:07 PM
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Fidelity in the Little & the Great...
"If you stand firm, if you are faithful , whether your task is 'small' or 'large', you will bear much good fruit in the world, though it will not be on your own terms. The concept of small and large, great and insignificant, is generally skewed in modern thinking, and we must admit that these measurements often infect believers as much as non-believers... But [what is] great and small? If we pay attention to everything Christ has taught us, the great is not necessarily what we think of as great by human standards, nor is the small. Greatness has nothing to do with having one's name on a book cover or one's presence being felt in the forums of the world. Genuine greatness may be to labor at humble and humiliating tasks unnoticed by anyone other than God himself. Such tasks put to death within us the core of selfishness in human nature. Indeed, a lifetime of hiddenness, of anonymity and of being considered to be of little or no consequence, if lived in union with Christ, will lead you to a day when you pass through the gates into Paradise and find, to your astonishment, that you are great in the eyes of the Father. "
Michael O'Brien, Catholic author & artist, in "Are We Living in Apocalyptic Times?" , http://studiobrien.com/site/index.php? , 20 September 2005.
posted by Holly at 7:45 PM
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Conformity to the Divine Will
"Through conformity to the Divine Will, we unite our will to that of Jesus Christ whose food was to do the will of His Father. Like Jesus and with Jesus we desire but what He wills and that, all day long. This is the fusion of two wills. We are one with Him, we adopt his views, His sentiments, His choices... and soon, we can make our own the word of St Paul: "I live, now not I, but Christ liveth in me."
Fr Adolphe Tanquerey, in the Spiritual Life, Desclee & Co Publishers, Tournai Belgium, 1931, p241-242
posted by Holly at 10:30 PM
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