Sunday is Mother’s Day, the day where Mom gets breakfast in bed, celebrates Mass with a picture-perfect family, is given flowers, cards, and macaroni necklaces, and then sent to the spa for a massage or mani-pedi before being treated to dinner. You know the deal. Mother’s Day is the stuff Hallmark thrives on! Mother’s Day is the one day all year …
23 years ago today I didn’t get Married, but I did. I did stand in front of family and friends. I did wear a long white gown. I did take a slow walk up the aisle to face a priest. I did approach the Tabernacle with a smile on my face. I did face the …
23 Years Ago Today, I Didn’t Get Married, But I Did… Read More »
I know many will scoff at the vision of Purgatory I experienced after Marian Consecration. They will dismiss my experience in Purgatory as a dream. They will say I am crazy or lying or whatever. I understand. I’d have doubted me too once. In fact, I still question why I was chosen to have this horrific, amazing, life changing vision. I might have …
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I vomited. A green, gray, brown, yellow, fleshy, uncolored substance spewed forth from my mouth. The smell was vile. The smell of me was vile. Worse than anything I’ve ever smelled. Pungent. Intense. Gross. Indescribable. Words to describe my smell but also how I looked. I shook uncontrollably. Tremors overtook my body. They were no …
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The morning of Marian Consecration filled with an an odd combination of Peace, Joy, excitement and I can’t explain what. It was a combination of absolute ecstatic energy and utterly calm peacefulness. Consecration was more right than anything I had ever done. I was sure of it in a way that’s impossible to explain. On a …
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Marian Consecration was no easy task. In fact, I am wondering if I was undergoing a spiritual attack of some sort. Nothing seemed to be going right. The weather interfered. Confirmation classes I was teaching interfered. My own stubbornness, lack of understanding, and inability to love better interfered. When it all came together and I got it, …
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One year ago I made my Consecration to Jesus through Mary on February 11th, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. I’m still processing the awesome reality of lasting change that can only have come through giving myself in Marian Consecration. I’m still in wonder over God’s Grace permitting a poor wretch like me to Consecrate myself to Jesus’ Immaculate …
Marian Consecration Anniversary – God Is Love. I Am Not. Read More »
As I prepare to head to Washington DC for the annual March for Life, I can’t help but feel reflective. It’s hard to believe almost nine years ago to this day, I sat on the edge of the bed I shared with my husband in the big house we were building ourselves. It’s hard to picture the four, carefree little boys …
