Happy Birthday to our oldest and very special daughter, who is the best mother, sister, daughter, farmer, nurse, natural family planning instructor... it seems that all she touches becomes special and wonderful! And in the midst of all that she is humble and sweet. A sure sign of the Lord at work in her heart, mind and soul.
Rose was such a great girl to have along at Nancy's. She fit right in, and kept the other kids occupied, and shared hours of coloring the saints with mostly her cousin just 6 months younger, Bernadette, and 4 year old ine, was sitting there with the big girls, too!
Blessed be God.
Blessed be His Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man.
Blessed be the Name of Jesus.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be His Most Precious Blood.
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most Holy.
Blessed be her Holy and Immaculate Conception.
Blessed be her Glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be St. , her most chaste spouse.
Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints. Amen.
May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.
All were powerful to repeat with a deep sense of Truth! John and I share our Faith deeply as a result of my being his mother, and his answered prayer when he journeyed through brain cancer and found his faith! When we speak of Mary - Our Lady of Lourdes is standing there with her loving arms wide to hold us close to her Immaculate heart! John also has very much turned to St with his fears for his brain and damage from the chemo and radiation.
John's story continues to this day. So many prayers needed and appreciated.
The first reading today from I John 3 speaks of our relationship with Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit - the Trinity! John and I are kneeling before our Lord Jesus in Adoration and as we gaze upon his face there we are seeing God at work in us. We are experiencing the Holy Spirit at work in our inner temples as we pray in The Spirit given to us at Confirmation and the laying on of hands.
Reading I 1 Jn 3:22–4:6
Beloved:
We receive from him whatever we ask,
because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
And his commandment is this:
we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,
and love one another just as he commanded us.
Those who keep his commandments remain in him, and he in them,
and the way we know that he remains in us
is from the Spirit whom he gave us.
St John goes on with a warning...
Beloved, do not trust every spirit
but test the spirits to see whether they belong to God,
because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
This is how you can know the Spirit of God:
every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ come in the flesh
belongs to God,
and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus
does not belong to God.
This is the spirit of the antichrist
who, as you heard, is to come,
but in fact is already in the world.
You belong to God, children, and you have conquered them,
for the one who is in you
is greater than the one who is in the world.
They belong to the world;
accordingly, their teaching belongs to the world,
and the world listens to them.
We belong to God, and anyone who knows God listens to us,
while anyone who does not belong to God refuses to hear us.
This is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.
How do we recognize the Truth? The Church holds out to us the Way, the Truth and the LIFE from Jesus and His Bride, The Church!
Nancy and Bill's launching of The Domestic Church Project - from them today in email
We took our family through the DCP Bootcamp this summer. We joke that we are the very first family to graduate from the program 💫.
Now, you might think that as the creators of the DCP Bootcamp, our family didn't need to go through it.
Um, wrong.
(our "saints in the making" in All Saints Day...and evidence for why I will never be a sensation on IG)
We needed the DCP Bootcamp, big time. In fact, we plan to take our family through the DCP Bootcamp again starting next week. We are eager to continue the work we started during our first pass.
Because, here's the thing. It's not just that the DCP Bootcamp was "good for us".
The DCP Bootcamp made us, as parents, aware of all we THOUGHT we were doing...but actually weren't doing at all.
We went into our family's experience of the DCP Bootcamp thinking that this would be really good for our kids. But it ended up being, above all else, challenging and transformational for us as parents.
You see, after all the research and months spent creating the DCP Bootcamp, we knew just how important it is to:
- Speak about the Faith in the home.
- Share your prayer life with your children.
- Be open with your children about your own struggles with temptation and sin.
And I thought we were doing a pretty good job on all of these points.
But, when we were forced to slow down and follow each step of the DCP Bootcamp, we realized that we was just barely skimming the surface. God's plan for our family was so much deeper and more beautiful than what we had been able to establish on our own.
The DCP Bootcamp stripped us of our pride. At the same time it showed us a better way.
Here is what we realized from our first journey through the DCP Bootcamp:
- "Talking about the Faith" in our home was more like just answering questions.
It wasn't really a conversation. Turns out, I didn't know HOW to have a conversation about the Faith with my kids. It felt uncomfortable. But, reading through the discussion questions included with each lesson of the DCP Bootcamp (which were written by our incredible content manager, Megan!) I felt like I was finally able to understand the way my kids thought. Gradually, night after night, I was trained to ask my kids the right questions that are capable to getting a beautiful conversation started.
- Next, I realized that the only prayer life I shared with my kids was the stressed-crabby-mom prayer I showed them while wrestling toddlers during family prayer.
My private prayer life I kept to myself, and it felt strange to talk about it. But DCP Bootcamp gave me the moment and the kick in the pants I needed to share my prayer life with my kids and it's amazing how sharing this has inspired them to invest in their own prayer lives!
- Finally, I realized that I had never clearly shared my own struggle with sin with my kids.
One of the most powerful moments of our DCP Bootcamp experience happened during the 2nd week as we prepared to go to confession as a family. During our post-lesson conversation we talked about yelling, something that Bill and I do more than we should in our home. For the first time, Bill and I spoke about our own struggle with sins. From the looks on our oldest two kids' faces it was clear that they had no idea sin was a struggle for us too. Hadn't we been open about our struggles with sin and temptation before??--I guess not! In the end we were all crying as we shared in the beautiful truth that we are all sinners and yet God is ready to welcome us all into His mercy.
Guys, I could go on and on. The DCP Bootcamp changed us.
(our best shot on Christmas!)
One thing I've reflected on since we graduated from the DCP Bootcamp is this:
Why was this experience so powerful, not only for our family, but for each of the families that went through the Beta experience as well?
After all, I've read all the books on the Domestic Church. I've listened to all the podcasts and watched all the videos on Formed. Everything was good, but nothing transformed us like this.
Here is exactly why the DCP Bootcamp is different:
The DCP Bootcamp works because it is something you do WITH your kids.
The DCP Bootcamp has the power to transform you as a parent because you go through it AS you parent. Nothing is hypothetical or just a bunch of ideas. The DCP Bootcamp teaches while you sit with your children and practice the love of a parent.
The DCP Bootcamp is unique because instead of talking about the Domestic Church, this is the the actual Blue Print for building and leading your Domestic Church. One lesson at a time, you will build your Domestic Church as you go through the Bootcamp.
It works for any Catholic Family. Whether you are a single mother, married to a non Catholic, have big kids or little kids, it will work for you.
This is your invitation to take your family through the Domestic Church Project Bootcamp and allow the Lord to transform you as well.
The DCP Bootcamp is available exclusively inside of our app. We will be closing enrollment on January 6th at midnight. Please, don't miss this opportunity.
You can find out more here: www.domesticchurchproject.com
And, if you have been meaning to talk to your husband about doing this in your family, this is the time. Stand up, go over to him and talk about it RIGHT NOW.
We pray with all our hearts that 2021 is the year of the Domestic Church in your home.
In Christ,
Nancy and Bill
Three basic points led her to become Catholic:
2) devotion to the Blessed Mother,
3) conviction that the Catholic Church led back
to the Apostles and Christ
Two great devotions:
1) Abandonment to God's Will
2) Ardent devotion to the Blessed Sacrament
God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other.
The more we are united to Him by love,
Danielle Rose
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