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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Celebrating family life | Saint Andre Bessette | spiritual lessons
Caitlan Rangel shares lessons in humility learned from the example of St. André Bessette. I recently realized I had been listening to a lie: You can’t become a saint like this. You’re just a mom. As a woman who writes and reflects on how our vocation as parents leads us along the path of holiness, I was shocked that I could be so deceived. When I shared this with my confessor, he shepherded me back to the simple truth that my ego loves to forget. He said, “Caitlan, we are called to become little.” My ego is repulsed by humility—You can only become a saint if people know who you are. The hiddenness of your life isn’t doing real work for the Kingdom. You’re not doing enough.
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family life | power of prayer | pray the rosary
I sat down on the sofa with my mug of coffee to start the day with prayer. The house was quiet apart from the pitter-patter of rain and the song of birds that reached my ears through cracked open windows. I’d slept fine but I was tired. Tired from long hours, packed into days, stacked into weeks, and collected into months. Do you feel that way too, at times?
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The Holy Spirit uses saints, authors, and kin to teach Caitlan Rangel how God desires us to grow in holiness through His gift of wisdom.
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