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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
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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Suffering and Sanctity
"My children must take heart in remembering the lives of my saints who endured all manner of trials for the love of Me and my most holy Church. Indeed, it must be this way in order for you to truly follow in My footsteps. Carrying the cross is meant to be difficult in order for it to bear much fruit. The degree of your suffering will indicate the degree of the sanctity you are attaining through grace..."
Apostolate of Holy Motherhood, The Riehle Foundation, Ohio, 1991, p64
posted by Holly at 11:01 PM
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The Old "I Don't Have Time" Excuse :-)
" "I don't have time." Oh, how often I've heard this one. Listen folks, if you sleep eight hours a night, you have sixteen waking hours a day. Subtract eight hours for working and two for eating and hygiene and you still have six hours left. In those six hours, there is no way you can't find half an hour for exercise. For other things that are important to you, you simply find or make time, and this should be the same... "I'm too lazy." This is usually the real reason, and I can hardly criticize you with a straight face, since for much of my life, I've been guilty myself..."
Dr. Robert C. Atkins, MD in "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution", Avon Books, a division of Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2002, p289
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