We Are All Called to Lives of Holiness
This semester has been a bit of a challenge for me. The challenge is balancing family and full-time studies. Being a full-time graduate student is a lot like working full-time. Not to mention that my entire program is online. I seldom interact with my professors. I am essentially teaching myself theology and philosophy with the …
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I am a firm believer that women should compliment their husbands in public and voice struggles either in private with their husband or with a trusted friend if counsel is needed. If people hear me griping about my husband constantly it will change their view of him and that is wrong. Not to mention that …
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My regular Confessor knows just how much I struggle with being a stay-at-home mom. The reasons are varied, but more than anything, I am trying to find the balance between doing what is best for my daughter and using the gifts that God has given me. I know that the best thing is for me …
Continue reading "Motherhood vs Talents: The Internal Battle and Trusting God"
This past week has been a challenge for me in that it required me to go outside of my comfort zone multiple times. The first was completion of my first graduate level Final test. Undergraduate was not a challenge for me at all. I spent a lot of my time bored. Part of starting my …
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I have not written much on this website lately. I was taking a break to focus on my family and faith journey. I had gotten myself into a rut where I was doing too much and accomplishing very little. I was leading or helping out in five ministries while trying to balance being a wife, …
I have decided to add another post into my current series on Catholic teaching on sexual ethics and "gay marriage". In a perfect world, all of us would fully assent to Church teaching before we professed to be Catholic. We would still sin, but all of us would, at least intellectually, assent to infallible teaching …
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I saw yet another article condemning stay-at-home moms as second class citizens. Quite frankly, the author is not worth the link in on my blog. She is worth prayers, but not a link. The argument is always the same: The self-made, individualist, materialistic, selfish woman is the REAL woman of the 21st Century. Let's call …
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*A note to moms and dads: Some of this may be hard to read or understand, but this is the reality of what our daughters are facing. Things have changed drastically since we were teens. Dear Daughters, You are beautiful. Every single one of you. You are created in the image and likeness of …
Continue reading "Dear Daughters: A Letter to Girls, Teens, and Young Women in Their Dating Years"
Hail Mary, full of grace.Happy Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God! Happy New Year and Merry Christmas (still!!!)! This morning my husband and I went to Mass for this holy day of obligation that always falls on January 1st. We are still smack in the middle of Christmas season and we celebrate Jesus Christ through …
Sometimes honesty in Catholic circles can be difficult. It is hard to admit to others that our vocation is just plain hard, that marriage can be messy and rough. I have been married for 3.5 years. We did not have a "honeymoon phase" as I was pregnant 3 months into our marriage and was sick …
Swimming the Depths 