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Holiness Thru the Very Performance of Our Tasks...
"Laymen should make such use of these helps [prayer, sacraments & liturgy] that, while meeting their human obligations in the ordinary conditions of life, they do not separate their union with Christ from their ordinary life; but through the very performance of their tasks, which are God's will for them, actually promote the growth of their union with him. This is the path along which laymen must advance, fervently, joyfully, overcoming difficulties with prudent patient efforts. Family cares should not be foreign to their spirituality, nor any other temporal interest; in the words of the Apostle: "Whatever you are doing, whether speaking or acting, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to the Father through him" (Col 3:17)"
Decree on the Apostolate of Lay People, Vatican II, Apostolicam Actuositatem, 18 November 1965, #4a
posted by Holly at 11:01 PM
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This post is the heart of a mother's rule - of a mother's vocation. That in no way ought our motherhood be seen as an obstacle to holiness, but the very means of it!
"Through the very performance of their tasks, which is God's will for them..." Nothing too hard, nothing too big, nothing we can't normally handle with a little work... And if this is God's will, then like St Paul we say "Woe to me, if I do not preach the Gospel," or "Woe to me, if I do not live my family life..."
Whatever we do - be it brush the pet dog, or pray, or help a neighbour, or sit with a husband over a glass of wine and some popcorn! All is holy. All is God's Will for us. All is good.
We can embrace this...
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