Tag: heaven

…mission completed

Published on by Dawn Marie6 Comments

Heavens to Betsy, it’s mid-July already!

The June flags have been stored away and I can easily say that, so far this summer, I have barely had a chance to catch my breath with all the goings-on in my tiny space of this world!

Great joys, amidst deep sorrows.

Mountain top moments combined with deep valleys traveled through.

And yet, there has been immense abiding grace.

Through everything – I have learned (and in some ways have re-learned,) a number of things about love and perhaps, something about myself. It (all of it) really comes down to the decision we all must make: To love or not to love. Yes, as cliche as it sounds, that is the ultimate question.

God is love and commands His children to live in love, grow in love, mature in love, share in love, and show to the world the difference that love in living can make.

One of my favorite working definitions of love is… LOVE is an action directed to another person that is motivated by our relationship to Jesus Christ and is given freely without a personal reward in mind!

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you don’t say…

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Yep! I found spirit-wear for my Word of the Year!! And you better believe I am LOVING every opportunity for wearing it!

I also must profess to having lots of other things to say with my attire.

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hey, mama!

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Mary’s role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it. “This union of the mother with the Son in the work of salvation is made manifest from the time of Christ’s virginal conception up to his death”; it is made manifest above all at the hour of his Passion:

Thus the Blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully persevered in her union with her Son unto the cross. There she stood, in keeping with the divine plan, enduring with her only begotten Son the intensity of his suffering, joining herself with his sacrifice in her mother’s heart, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim, born of her: to be given, by the same Christ Jesus dying on the cross, as a mother to his disciple, with these words: “Woman, behold your son.”

After her Son’s Ascension, Mary “aided the beginnings of the Church by her prayers.” In her association with the apostles and several women, “we also see Mary by her prayers imploring the gift of the Spirit, who had already overshadowed her in the Annunciation.”

964-965 Catechism of the Catholic Church

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