tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32371597376768646822024-03-13T19:13:18.468-07:00Little Saints in the MakingCatholicfitmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17127022029043353699noreply@blogger.comBlogger501125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3237159737676864682.post-17218002203425946002020-01-08T11:46:00.002-08:002020-01-08T11:46:23.149-08:00An Enkindle New Life .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a new life for me. </div>
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A life of love and of mercy for myself, my husband and children.</div>
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So many days, I have wasted trying to share the message of Merciful Love with the world through so many projects outside of the home, such as merciful love challenge, girls run club, pro-life ministry, online business, bigger blog, more social media, and this and that, etc.</div>
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I didn't see that my worthily answer was within reach. </div>
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My Soul. My husband. My children. My home.</div>
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I exchanged His graces on my life for numbers, goals, empowerment, self-care.</div>
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I didn't see that it is those graces that transform me, not the gym.</div>
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He wants me to accomplish a mighty goal, my salvation.</div>
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Right within my reach. My home. My husband. My Children.</div>
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A real friendship with Him. </div>
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With real priorities set on true health; health of the soul, body, mind all within my vocation of marriage and motherhood.</div>
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It's in this vocation, that I will, with His grace, accomplish the greatest achievement of my life, the one that I was created for.</div>
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To be with Him forever.</div>
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We were not created for anything else but to bring Him honor.</div>
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In all we do, no matter how little and unnoticed it might be to the world.</div>
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My true greatest, your true greatest at the end of it, is when we have become, saints, living eternity with Him.</div>
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Nothing else matters. No Emmy. No Job. No Dreams. No Goals. No Future board. </div>
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I am done with feeling ashame or thinking that I am too high and mightly because I want to achieve this greatest.</div>
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No. For the very fact that I am a great sinner, I want to achieve this greatest.</div>
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No more being a shame to seek it, to do whatever it takes to reach it.</div>
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Oh, how He has enkindled this new Life for me.</div>
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I learn today at mass that every time you hear the name of Jesus during the Holy Mass, you should bow your head as showing reverence to His Holy name.</div>
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It's just what I needed.<br />
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I will REST this year. From what? Hard to rest as a mother of 5 children and caregiver of 2 more as well homeschooling with a loud corgi.<br />
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I have been in the past few weeks been the most unreset ever. It has grown so much that I finally stop ignoring it.<br />
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I knew that I need to do 2020 different for the sake of my soul and peace. I need to REST.<br />
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I need peace. I have been trying so hard to be something that I am not called to be. I have been trying to do bigger things and be bigger things for others outside of my home.<br />
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But I haven't found peace. I have an unresting feeling that needs to find rest. IN HIM.<br />
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So I am leaving this world. No, not the real world but the "Mom Boss, Empower Women, Grow Your fan, Ministry " world. I will seek HIM in my hidden world.<br />
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No more projects outside of my home and vocation. No more business, clubs, newsletters. No more social media, facebook, podcast.<br />
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I never had REST with them. I need to find REST so that I can find HIM.<br />
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My priorities have been mixed up for years now and I understand now that to find that REST, I need Him and I need to set my priorities right.<br />
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There is so much lack of time and energy when you are homeschooling children using a classical education. It is so hard. I never had a good education.<br />
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I ran away for that hardness and pour myself into other outside projects, social media, girls club, moms club, so-called ministries.. anything that might have given me some joy and my mind away from that hard life of bringing up children.<br />
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But I was lying to myself. Filling myself up with things that didn't bring me REST nor PEACE.<br />
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I was not courageous. I ran away for my priorities into ministery even thou they were good and beautiful, they were there to make me feel better about my weakness, my laziness.<br />
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But as I see that time is now against me. I have lost time. A time that can't be made up. Lost forever.<br />
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I knew that I needed to do this years ago but I was a coward.<br />
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I have shut down all things that lead me away from my true vocation of family life.<br />
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I 'm just going to go back to old school and be a mom with just a blog. I will keep 1 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Catholicfitmomsforlife/">Facebook page </a>but I will not have any more challenges, nothing that will distract me from this REST in Him, Peace in my home and heart.<br />
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So if I don't post in days, so what? If I don't comment, so what? If I get no new followers so what?<br />
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I just want a place that will help me seek real contentions with other Catholic mothers who are trying to raise little Saints as well as trying to be holy.<br />
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There will be no trying to find followers or links or traffic. Whatever happens, it RESTs in Him. No more newsletters, Instagram accounts, giveaways, no course, no journals.<br />
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Yes, being pro-life active is very important and to share the mercy of God. Yes, those things were good but it just not my time to do those things. Some mothers can do it all. <br />
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I finally saw that I can't. I have wasted so much time. But I have hope in God's mercy and I have time for today.<br />
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Aren't these owls cute? I found them at the Family Dollar for $2 and those glass pumpkins at $1 each.</div>
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It might not feel like fall here but I will do my best to bring on the feeling of fall at home!</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><i><span style="font-size: 19px;">Click </span><a href="http://hairbows4life.com/?code=Maximus" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 19px;" target="_blank">here </a><span style="font-size: 19px;"> to take you to the discount.</span></i></b></span></div>
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But God's mercy and love is bigger than my understanding of all of this pain.<br />
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A few weeks ago, I sadly learn that our sweet baby boy did not make it past 13 weeks yet my body once again, was not showing any signs of it. I had my 15 weeks check up and once again, my biggest fear became my reality, no heartbeat, no movement, no baby. </div>
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I really couldn't believe that I was living this nightmare again that I had just felt that I experience with Benedicto not too long ago. </div>
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I really thought that the Easter Miracle that I had written about was a baby I was going to hold for a very long time. </div>
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At first, I just wanted to get it done with and move on and have a D&C but after a day or so of reflection, and knowing that we were not going to get a body to bury here, I decided to have labor so that I can have a tiny yet very big in our hearts, baby to give what everyone unborn at least deserves if they don't make it: a burial. </div>
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So I went in on June 20th and on June 21st deliver a perfect tiny baby boy, Juan Diego. </div>
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Our Dear Fr.John, came to visit and brought me: Christ and also two relics, one of the true cross and one of that day's saint: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Gonzaga">St. Aloysius Gonzaga</a></div>
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I was able to reflex on that day's Gospel which was Matthew 6:19- 23 and what stood out for me that I knew Jesus was talking to me at that moment in time was: </div>
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As my husband and I were eating our lunch after we went to the doctors before the labor, a lady sat right behind me with these words on her shirt:</div>
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Our children are not ours, they are God's and God's alone. He only grants us time with them, may it be seconds, months, years, but we should always give them to the LORD.</div>
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One week later, we bury our sweet son on June 28th at a St. Joseph Cemetery, right under a Magnolia tree and in front of a big statue of Sacred Heart of Jesus.</div>
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We also order some flowers to put on the gravesite and sure enough, it was filled with St.Joseph's flowers, lilies. And since Juan Diego was conceived on St. Joseph's feast day, I knew it was St.Joseph's way of letting us know, that he also was carrying Juan Diego in his arms.</div>
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I knew that mourning the loss of my own children, I can also mourn the loss of millions and millions of children lost to abortion.<br />
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During losing Benedicto last year, I got a hold of this wonderful book that has helped me in so many ways, that I can not even describe it. after miscarriage: A Catholic Woman's Companion to Healing and Hope by Karen Edmisten. I had given copies to many moms from friends to strangers so that they can heal and have hope again.<br />
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Catholicfitmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17127022029043353699noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3237159737676864682.post-71310723295762587142013-05-15T18:13:00.002-07:002013-05-15T18:13:42.907-07:00His love for Her..<div style="text-align: center;">
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He gave Her : his life, his love, his trust and his faith in Her. </div>
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This Saturday is Pope John Paul II birthday and on Oct. 20th, he will be canonize into a great Saint in the books of The Holy Mother Church.</div>
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In his honor, we are giving away a Pope John Paul II hair bows at <a href="http://www.hairbows4life.com/">www.hairbows4life.com</a> under giveaways (until supplies last). Please limited to one per family and give it 4 to 6 weeks. </div>
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Catholicfitmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17127022029043353699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3237159737676864682.post-68986167432169330482013-04-24T08:30:00.001-07:002013-04-24T08:30:17.469-07:00My Easter Miracle<div style="text-align: center;">
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It is time to share with you all our Easter Miracle. Many of you know my story of the lost of my son Benedicto last year. The whole in my heart has been big for some time. My youngest is going to turn 5 in the Falll and we have lost two since. In November, I was getting overwhelm with the idea of not having any more children. I am very grateful for these dear four blessings God has given me! I wanted to rest this feeling of yawning for more children if it was not in God plans. <br />
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So I turn to my dearest friend, St. Therese of the Little Flowers and I did a novena, asking, or more like begging God to let me close this hole in my heart and just take what I have on Earth and live it to its fullest. I knew if God would let me know that these four children on Earth would be it than I could finally really move on in a way. On the ninth day, without the knowledge to anyone at all, I received my 12 roses from My husband. I knew than that I was going to blessed once again with another little soul on Earth.<br />
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Than we had a new Pope Fransico , a dear gentle fisherman, and on St.Joseph's day, he was going to take place as the next Pope. In God greatest love for us, we conceived on St. Joseph's day. A true miracle because I have not every ovulated earlier than day 20 in the past five years and that day was day 14. <br />
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In Your Mercy O Lord, hear my prayer!Catholicfitmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17127022029043353699noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3237159737676864682.post-44275213204566339892013-04-16T19:35:00.000-07:002013-04-16T19:35:22.058-07:00Storm the Heavens for PRAYERS!<br />
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She and her husband Erik live in NYC.</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">About two months ago, Pamela began experiencing severe migraines which her</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">doctors believed were pregnancy-related. But as they treated her and she</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">did not improve, they did an MRI only to discover a massive tumor on her</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">brain. She immediately had surgery to remove as much of the tumor as</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">possible. Over 90% was removed, but it was impossible to get all of it.</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Thankfully, baby came through surgery just fine. Then the pathology report</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">came-- bringing incredibly heart-wrenching news. Pamela has aggressive,</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">stage 4 brain cancer. She was given a bleak prognosis of living an average</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of 13 months. As devastating as this diagnosis is, it is all the more</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">complicated by her pregnancy. She cannot begin all of the recommended</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">treatments immediately, and there are some very difficult (almost</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">impossible) decisions to make regarding care for baby balanced with her own</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">care.</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In short, Pamela needs a miracle. Both she and Erik are people of deep</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">faith. Interestingly enough, Erik just came into full communion with the</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Catholic Church less than two weeks ago at the Vigil - days after Pamela's</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">surgery. They are desperate for Christ's healing touch, and are seeking the</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">wisdom of God in all their decisions.</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I have taken on their cause and have been committed to asking as many</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">people as possible to pray for Pamela and her family. Specifically, I am</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">feeling called to do a novena to St. Gianna (an Italian wife and mother of</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">three, who discovered a tumor on her uterus during pregnancy with her</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">fourth baby, and died soon after delivering her.) </span><u style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>St. Gianna's feast day is<br style="margin: 0px;" />April 28, so I will be praying April 20-28 specifically for Pamela's<br style="margin: 0px;" />healing. Would you consider joining me in prayer for this dear sister?</b></span></u><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I have set up an email notification so that you can sign up to receive the</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">novena prayer for the nine days. (I promise there will be no more emails</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">beyond this.) In addition to the prayer there will be a short story either</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">about the life of St. Gianna, or about Pamela so those of you who don't</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">know this lovely woman can have a sense of who you're praying for.</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px;" /><u style="background-color: yellow;"><b>If you'd like to sign up, here is the link:</b></u><br style="margin: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px;" /><a href="https://tinyletter.com/propamela" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank" title="https://tinyletter.com/propamela">https://tinyletter.com/<wbr style="margin: 0px;"></wbr>propamela</a><br style="margin: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In addition, I will be hosting two opportunities for communal prayer during</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the novena. On both Sundays of the novena, April 21 and 28, I am inviting</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">anyone in the greater Seattle area to come to my home at 2 pm to pray the</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">novena, followed by a rosary and then to share in tea and cookies. I don't</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">think this time will be more than one hour, but in my experience when "two</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">or three gather" there is a deep sense of God's presence as the one who</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">hears our prayers. So you are invited to come if you like, but of course</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">attendance is not required to do the novena.</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Because I have set this up online, feel free to forward to link to anyone</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">you know who might also be interested in praying for Pamela. Really, the</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">more prayer, the better.</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Thank you for reading, and being willing to consider joining me in prayer.</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In hopes of a miracle!</span><br style="margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Sarah</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In some Hispanic cultures, there is this tradition that the Friday before Palm Sunday is offer to Our Lady of Sorrows for she will soon be in her greatest sorrow as she watches her son die for our sins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On this day last year, the Friday before Palm Sunday, God was very kind with me (in what I call my hardest lent ever) and let me experience some of our Lady's Sorrow of losing her son, as I lost my dearest son Benedicto. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I headed to the coldest room in my life and waited more than 12 hours to deliver a son who was Deliver to Christ at 3 am March 31st. He let me have a true experiences of Holy Week that I will never forget. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once again, on the 1 year anniversary of this very sad day of my life, it will be this Easter Sunday, t</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he Most Glorious day of the year! But instead of having the sense of lost, I will have this joyous day knowing that my Benedicto with his brother and sister are truly living the Glorious Easter with Christ himself.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On a side note, while I was pregnant with my son, I wanted to name him Francisco but when we lost him and had to deliver him, we named him, Benedicto. I would of never thought that a year later we would have another Pope and his name would be Francisco. </span><br />
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She is so happy when she is doing her "school work". I have started back again using the <a href="http://www.workboxsystem.com/">Workbox system</a> for the kids but using a bind with folders and everyday we have to have something different in these folders for Miss. Gotta Do School Work Girl. </div>
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Pope Francisco . He is different but so loved already. But I have to admit, I miss Pope Benedicto very much and it is hard to know that he is still living and not our pope at the same time. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I have been using a Home-management binder where I keep my life in it. I couldn't find a pretty one that I like without going over too much money for it. So I had this plain pink one for Walmart at $2.</span></div>
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I thought I could use it for something. I really like the fabric. Than I thought, Oh, I can make a cover for my plain binder. So I did, using hot-glue and a little bit of pink ribbon since it was just a tab bit short to cover the whole binder.</div>
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The Book winner goes to number 2 using <a href="http://www.random.org/">Random.org </a>that generates a the number. </div>
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Angela is our winner. Congratulations. </div>
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There is another neat documentary on netflix:</div>
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<a href="http://www.hungryforchange.tv/">Hungry for Change</a></div>
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We are just so happy with our new Pope Francisco may God and Our Blessed Mother bless him, protect him , guided him and encourage him today and everyday.Viva Papa!</div>
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Everyone is call to be a Saint. Everyone. But most of us will not be those type of Saints such as Padre Pio, St. Therese, etc. that the world will know of us. No but we are going to be Saints in the little acts of every single day. And at the end of the day, a Saint is a Saint.</div>
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So, I came across another documentary after, <a href="http://www.documentarytube.com/eat-fast-and-live-longer-bbc-horizon-2012">Eat, Fast and Live Longer</a> and its called,<a href="http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/"> Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. </a> Very well done and interesting. Watch the trailer and you can watch the whole thing on Netflix or maybe on YouTube if you don't have netflix. </div>
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Now, ever since I fell upon this way of life, I have not just lost 15 pounds in 6 weeks but my cycles have been normal. I also notice food better if that makes sense especially on my feast days. I don't really feast as you think but I take my time and enjoy my food and really see what I am eating. My energy level has increased and I think that also has help with my workouts. </div>
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It is so much fun to see what types of flowers we are going to get this spring since it will be our first spring in our home in Mississippi. Here is what we have found so far!</div>
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Catholicfitmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17127022029043353699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3237159737676864682.post-21399612806972361022013-03-01T10:59:00.003-08:002013-03-01T11:05:09.418-08:00Tending to Your Temple: Winner<div style="text-align: center;">
Lena over at <a href="http://joyfilledfamily.blogspot.com/">Joyfilled Family</a> was our random winner using <a href="http://random.org/">random.org</a> generator. She will be able to choose one of the following resources from my post on Tuesday; <a href="http://littlesaintsinthemaking.blogspot.com/2013/02/tending-to-your-temple-give-away.html">Tending to Your Temple</a>. I am working on a post about the benefits of fasting and such and I will have another give away than.<br />
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Today we as a church will see our gentle and sweet Holy Father, step down as Pope for the greater good of the Church, for God's greater Glory.</div>
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Almost a year ago, Pope Benedictio went to Mexico Leon, where the <a href="http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/%C2%A1viva-cristo-rey">Cristeros </a>took place in the 1920's </div>
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This trip was very meaningful for our family since my husband is from Mexico and my family is from Cuba.</div>
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The week that Pope went to Mexico and than to Cuba was the hardest week of my life. I had to give birth to a beautiful baby boy who I never got a chance to see his color of his eyes or hear his cry but that I know that He got to see more beauty than I will ever see on earth in Heaven.</div>
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So we called Him: Benedicto , which this year will be the one year anniversary of his death on Easter Sunday. The most Glories day of the Church and he will be celebrating with Christ himself. I ask him to pray for myself and his family and Our Church.</div>
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How is your lent going? I know, I have my days also. </div>
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I have compile a few great Catholic resources to help with the tending of your temple, that I thought you might find them interesting. </div>
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Workout Programs:</div>
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1. <a href="http://www.rosaryworkout.com/">Rosary Workout</a></div>
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2. <a href="http://www.thecatholicworkout.com/">Catholic workout</a></div>
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BOOKS:</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tending-Temple-spiritual-physical-devotions/dp/1936453002/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315181214&sr=8-1">1. Tending the Temple</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fit-Eternal-Life-Kevin-Vost/dp/1933184310/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z">2. Fit for Eternal Life</a></div>
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3. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Commandments-Lifting-Weights-Jared-Zimmerer/dp/0984486496/ref=pd_sim_b_7">Ten Commandments of Lifting Weights</a></div>
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Clothing</div>
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1. <a href="http://www.mamasmovinwithmary.com/apps/links/">Mamas Movin' With Mary</a> ( great workout shirts)</div>
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Catholic Diet</div>
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<a href="http://www.lightweigh.com/">Lightweigh (bible weight lost program)</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.chastitysf.com/loseweight2.htm">Weight Loss through Faith</a></div>
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Blogs and Blogs Post on Catholic view on Weight-loss.</div>
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<a href="http://littlesaintsinthemaking.blogspot.com/2013/01/transforming-for-christ-pray-fast.html">Pray and Fast</a></div>
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<a href="http://littleflowersfamilypress.com/blog/weight-loss-woes-5-tips-catholic/">Little Flower Family Press</a></div>
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<a href="http://joyfilledfamily.blogspot.com/p/health-fitness.html">Joy Filled Family</a><br />
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<a href="http://healthandfitnessallfor.blogspot.com/">Health & Fitness ALL FOR!</a></div>
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<a href="http://mamaslittleditty.blogspot.com/p/fitness.html">Blossoming Joy</a></div>
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<a href="http://catholicmom.com/category/lisas-blog/health-and-fitness/">CatholicMom. com</a></div>
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Now I am having a give-away, your choice of an item from above (besides Lightweight) .</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>I feel the call this lent to make it as personal and real to live out Christ's love for us. It is also the first time in my whole life that I have done a fast and I have finally learn to offer it together with love for others, love for Holy Father and Priest and Love for the Church. <a href="http://littlesaintsinthemaking.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-lenten-plan-as-easy-as-123.html">(pray&fast)</a></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">We started to meet on Fridays, to do a <a href="http://www.cmjbooks.com/products/holy-hour-of-reparation-for-boys-and-girls">Holy Hour for Repartion for Boys and Girls</a> . I was just taken by how profound this is for the kids and myself. I felt such love for Him at church when we were doing this for watching the children love Him and listening to their voices asking for reparation for our sins and the whole world. </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://growtheroses.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/keeping-love-in-lent/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Grow the Roses: Keep Love in Lent</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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