Thank you dear friends and family for all the love, prayers, and support.
Month: September 2022 (Page 1 of 2)
Andrew and I have been handed a bitter cup to drink for the 5th time in our marriage covenant and we are in the process of losing a 5th child to miscarriage. This is not a topic that I can write eloquently about, so I will let Scriptures handle the eloquence part. Anyone who has traveled this road, can empathize with the heavy hearts we carry.
Jeremiah 1:5
I am unable to read through these without weeping.
This brings us comfort:
The Hope of Salvation for Infants
I like to seek counsel after confession and we’ve been supporting each other successfully in utilizing monthly reconciliation/confession. The priest yesterday shared with me about pious aspirations. Here’s a link explaining them and I will include some examples:
Aspirations: An Easy Way to Attain Holiness and Joy
Some Aspirations of the Saints:
“My beloved and despised Redeemer, how sweet it is to suffer for You.” – St. Alphonsus
“Do with me, O Lord, as you will and know to be best.” – St. Philip Neri
Andrew and I greatly desire heaven and we rely on good spiritual leaders to help us improve our abilities to know, love and serve God, improve our marriage, parenting skills, love for our neighbors, charity, etc. We are blessed to have an excellent spiritual leader guiding us.
Blessed beyond measure. 💕
“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.” —1 Thessalonians 5:11
A great message. Love from Haymarsh 💚💛💚
Community is vital. Our gathering on Friday was sporadic, but everyone left that evening feeling more loved. Who knew a simple pizza supper and games would be so appreciated? Here are some thank yous we received:
Thanks for a great gathering last night! Delicious food and lots of fun.
It was great. A fantastic break from the ordinary.
What a nice group and fun evening! Thanks for the invite! 😁
“A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends.”
–St. John Chrysostom
“Marriage releases the flesh from its individual selfishness for the service of the family; the vow of chastity releases the flesh not only from the narrow and circumscribed family, where there can still be selfishness, but also for the service of that family that embraces all humanity. That is why the Church asks those who consecrate themselves to the redemption of the world to take a vow and to surrender all selfishness, that they may belong to no one family and yet belong to all. That is why in that larger family of the kingdom of God, the priest is called “Father” —because he has begotten children not in the flesh, but in the spirit.”
—Venerable Fulton Sheen, p. 117
We did some peach & plum canning yesterday.
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