Wonderful news! Your family is in my prayers.

:)
Ma Beck | Homepage | 03.17.08 - 4:22 pm | #

Thank You God for Your faithfullness!
Congradulate your family for me please! :)

Blessings to all!
Tim | Homepage | 03.17.08 - 5:52 pm | #

Congratulations and God be praised! all the way around!! What joy and excitement!!

Jeanne
Jeanne | Homepage | 03.17.08 - 6:29 pm | #

What wonderful news!
mrs jackie parkes | Homepage | 03.18.08 - 6:29 am | #

Wonderful news Amber. I will continue praying for the birth mother and your sister and brother in law.
Therese | Homepage | 03.18.08 - 1:00 pm | #

Thanks be to God! Deus Gratia!!!:)
I'm so happy for you Amber, may God bless you always.
Pax in Anima | Homepage | 03.18.08 - 5:35 pm | #

I am so happy for your sister and brother in-law! Wishing their new family a life time of blessngs!
Kris | Homepage | 03.23.08 - 6:11 am | #

How very, very exciting.
RosemaryBogdan | Homepage | 04.24.08 - 4:47 pm | #

Congratulations! How exciting; you are able to form yourselves into a truly Catholic family! Here is a reflection by someone on what Catholicism was like before the 1960s. Basically, it encompassed the entirety of a person's life. I hope that as you form a Catholic family, you are able to incorporate these:

Every Catholic knew precisely who it was they were receiving ... Jesus ... even those who were still too young to partake.

Christmas and Easter were sacred feast days, and each was preceeded by four to six weeks of very serious spiritual preparation.

Entire neighborhoods were known by the name of the Catholic parish they were built around.

Catholic doctrine was clear and complete, and most people learned it by wrote, from the Baltimore Catechism, written in a concise Q&A format.

Most Catholic families had a big Douay-Rheims Bible at home, heavily illustrated, with beautiful, full color pages of the finest Christian artwork the world had ever seen.

After supper, dads and moms would read the Bible and explain the pictures to the kids. They would often pray the Rosary together, too.

Baptisms, First Communions, Weddings, and Funerals were all held in the church, and all were holy liturgies of great significance and beauty. All were celebrations of life. Even the funerals.

Churches were beautifully decorated, and reminded all who entered of what Heaven must surely be like.

etc.
Seminarian Matthew | Homepage | 06.12.08 - 5:25 am | #