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“When we exercise the gifts which Christ has given us we are really saying to our fellow Christians and others: See how much the Lord Jesus Christ loves you and cares for you; He has sent me to serve you in this way; He is using my hands and feet, my lips and ears, to show His love.” - S. Ferguson
Thinking about spiritual gifts and what we bring to the table in terms of serving Christ. His love dwells in us and His grace imparts the gifts to tell others that He loves them too. We must take him into our work, whether that’s home or an office, on the phone or in the car... Share your gifts today with someone who needs it!
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"Your marriage is also meant to be 'outward-facing' towards the community around you. True love, by its very nature, calls a person out of himself in service. Therefore true married love, by its very nature, must call both spouses out of themselves. Not just to serve each other, but to make their very marriage a gift to those around them. To 'confer a particular mission in the Church and to serve to build up the People of God.'" - Mariah Maza, #SpokenBride Features Editor⠀
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Read more of Mariah's (@joansinthedesert) post today on the Spoken Bride blog on how the vocation of marriage is a gift, not only to the couple themselves, but to the world. Link in profile.⠀
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After a year in a gym, our church renovation is finally complete and it’s remarkably beautiful, as every church should be.
The world needs beauty. When we go to Mass we should encounter beauty in both the liturgy and the material world that surrounds us, but what struck me last night was the beauty of our parish community.
At the 6:00 PM Mass the pews were packed with worshipers. After Mass we caught up with Christ in the City missionaries, FOCUS missionaries, ladies in my small group, families from school, and Kevin’s PT who he invited to Mass at our parish weeks ago and she finally came.
The community at our parish is unbelievable, especially the young adult community. Literally hundreds of young adults are in small groups at our parish. Having been in FOCUS, I know how powerful this is.
Sometimes I think we make parish life too complicated. Here’s the simple truth, if you feel like your parish community is lame, do something about it. Stop waiting for someone else to make it better. Find people who are in the same stage of life as you and interact with them outside of church.
Start a running club. Start a Bible study. Start a dinner club. Start a rosary group. Start a men’s group, women’s group, singles group, moms group. I don’t care what you do, just get together and things will change.
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“Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” - Matthew 19:14
Having one of those “We’re doing a great job as parents” moments! But in reality it’s Him working through them that makes these moments shine bright. Their faith astounds me. Have your kids ever surprised you with their understanding of Jesus? Have they ever stopped you in your tracks with a comment that was so deep and profound yet so simple that you knew it came straight from the Lord? When this happens I always thank God for the gift of childlike faith. I get to live it through them.
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During Lent we cut way back on sweets and media, so for today’s Solemnity of the Annunciation, Grace and I hosted a movie party to celebrate.
Yesterday we dawdled around the party store so Grace could carefully pick out blue candy (in honor of Mary) and we made special signs for ticket sales and the concession stand.
Celebrating feast days doesn’t have to be complicated and it doesn’t always have to be based upon a long standing Church tradition. Really, it just has to be intentional. Today’s celebration was simple, but Grace will surely remember it for years to come.
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“Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: half the babies and all the mothers.”
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“The so-called right to abortion has portrayed THE GREATEST GIFT, a child, as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience.”
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“The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion because it is a war against the child.”
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“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants.”
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We stopped on our way back home at this beautiful Shrine of Christ’s Passion in St. John, IN. They had a lovely memorial for aborted babies, with this statue of Jesus weeping with a tiny baby in his hands. I couldn’t help but tear up. It even moved my little ones enough to wonder what was wrong, so we were able to explain to them a little more visually why we pray every day for the end to abortion, the murder of defenseless little babies. My daughter even named the baby Mary...very fitting. I think it’s time we start to spiritually adopt a child in danger of abortion, and it looks like we already found a name.❤️
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St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta,
ORA PRO NOBIS, ORA PRO NOBIS, ORA PRO NOBIS❤️