I’m married to my high school sweetheart, my love. We’ve been together for over half our lives. Together, we have six children (including a little one due 2.13) and five whom we pray are with Our Lord.
We are both cradle Catholics but did not experience the fullness of our Faith until our young adult lives. Neither one of us can clearly pin point when our re-conversion has taken place. It is a daily journey that we are still on. However, there is one moment in time that we both agree, His grace was most evident in our lives. It is when I became pregnant at the age of 16 and we were given the graces to say YES to life.
We were blessed with a beautiful girl, Rose. Sadly, we did not take heed. We did not choose to follow the easiest, safest, fastest, most secure, and surest path to Jesus and to our own salvation. We accepted His grace but moved forward with our own will. We clung to the spirit of the world. We lacked obedience and charity.
Since then, we have slowly attempted to die to self. This has mostly been a result of corrective suffering and graces which we are not worthy of. In hindsight, we see, the more we prayed to be like the Holy Family, the more we have been stripped. We trust that He has given us nothing we cannot handle but we have, on many occasions, experienced an Agony in the Garden and pleaded for Him to remove the cup. He is patiently refining us.
We remain stripped and now seek the easiest path - to walk hand in hand with Mary, behind Our Heavenly Father.
Currently, we are discerning our next big move as we learn about more traditional ways of living and getting back to living a simpler more natural life.
Currently, we are discerning our next big move as we learn about more traditional ways of living and getting back to living a simpler more natural life.
We pray…"My dear Mother and Mistress, I realise that up to now I have received from God through your intercession more graces than I deserve. But bitter experience has taught me that I carry these riches in a very fragile vessel and that I am too weak and sinful to guard them by myself. Please accept in trust everything I possess, and in your faithfulness and power keep it for me. If you watch over me, I shall lose nothing. If you support me, I shall not fail. If you protect me, I shall be safe from my enemies." TDTTBV 173
Come, share our JOY!
Pax Christi,
& JOYfilled Family
JOYfilledfamily{at}gmail{dot}com
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What we believe...
THE CREDO
What we believe...
The Creed is for Catholics our great Act of Faith in which is contained the twelve articles of our Holy Religion. The mere fact of saying, " I believe in one God," is binding upon us and involves our whole existence. We take a stand for God and whatever is opposed to Him. Whatever in us is routine, superficial, superstitious, selfish, negative, or inconsistent must be purged. Our daily lives must coincide with the Creed
THE CREDO
I BELIEVE in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and
earth, of all things visible and invisible.
And
in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God. Born
of the Father before all ages. God of God, Light of Light, true
God of true God. Begotten, not made, of one substance with the Father. By Whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation
came down from heaven. [genuflect] And He became flesh by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary: and was made man.
[stand]
He was
also crucified for us, suffered under Pontius Pilate, and was
buried. And on the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the
Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living
and the dead. And of His kingdom there will be no end.
And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, Who proceeds
from the Father and the Son. Who together with the Father and
the Son is adored and glorified; and Who spoke through the Prophets.
And one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. I confess one baptism
for the forgiveness of sins. And I await the resurrection of
the dead. And the life of the world to come. Amen
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