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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
Immersing Ourselves in Our Motherhood...
"I wish for the apostolate of motherhood to begin very soon... [Mothers] will rise to holiness through this means(:)
They will learn to offer up their daily duty in a most efficacious way and help to atone for much of the sin in the world. They will learn to use their time wisely and it will be well spent in prayer, not superficial or superfluous prayer, but prayer that will pierce the Heart of [Jesus] because of it's genuineness and love. They will love their children and their husbands and their homes above all else except God... and they will be shining examples to all those around them. Their interest will be in the home, and they will not seek to aspire to anything except perfection in this most noble way. They will put their children far before themselves and all others, and they will love their husbands deeply in a holy Christian love. They will love the Church and seek to do all for the salvation of souls...They will work for peace by their example and prayer, but not through activism which would detract from the purity of their vocation... They must be self-sacrificing examples and models of love and kindness to all whom they meet."
Apostolate of Holy Motherhood, Riehle Foundation, Milford, OH, 1991, pp33-34
posted by Holly at 8:54 AM
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The Mature Response vs the Emotional Reaction...
"Look at the word responsibility - "response-ability" - the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people... do not blame circumstances, conditions or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling... The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values."
Stephen R. Covey, in "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic", Simon and Schuster Publishers, NY, 1989, p71-72
posted by Holly at 6:51 PM
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The Greatest Enemy - A Divided Heart...
"The greatest enemy of any vocation is a divided heart. Yet, how many parents have a "whole heart?" Or to put it another way, how many parents are wholeheartedly occupied with and concerned about fulfilling this vocation of theirs, as it should be filled - by serving God through it? If they were so concerned, then problem children, problem youth, and marital problems would almost vanish and, as the parents grew in holiness - which is love - these problems would vanish indeed. What do I mean by a divided heart?...I simply mean trying to straddle what cannot be straddled..."
Catherine de Hueck Doherty in "Dear Parents: A Gift of Love For Families", Madonna House Publications, Combermere Ontario, Canada, 1997, p2
posted by Holly at 10:40 PM
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