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[darlingdevout]

happy Divine Mercy Sunday 🤍

feat. the rosary i got for my husband 🥹 isn’t it beautiful? i’m so happy it arrived in time for him to use today, the divine mercy service is special to him and it was beautiful to experience it by his side!

hope you all have a blessed rest of your weekend!

[thelovelesscatholic]

Some family friends of ours have been detained by ICE while going to work. Please prayer for them and their safety and may they be reunited with their families soon

[darlingdevout]

altar of repose during holy hour last night ♡

[darlingdevout]

happy st patrick’s day! ☘️

image from @/littlewaychapel on instagram

[thelovelesscatholic]

How do you talk to someone who has clearly been hurt with Christianity? How do I provide comfort while defending my faith when it is being bad mouthed?

[darlingdevout]

my sweet grandma (in-law for proper context, but she is truly just my grandma, i love her so much) got this for me as a confirmation gift along with the most beautiful card 🥹 she is the first person i met that was truly & outwardly living a Catholic faith and she has always inspired me 😭🤍 she’s never said it to me directly but i have a feeling she has been praying for this moment (along with my husband) for nearly 5 years now, lol!

[thelovelesscatholic]

It bothers me that my husband and I aren’t gonna be married in heaven.

I’m single, never been in a relationship before but I know I wanna get married something and I can’t wait to finally indulge in romantic love-the love I feel the most intensely. So reading that love isn’t going to make it to heaven disheartened me. Like most things in religion, people have different interpretations of this but the most common interpretations are that we will still love our spouse but no more or less than we love other people or we will love them more but ultimately that love isn’t going to be romantic.

And here’s what my main worry is, what if that love is also something that I don’t connect with? The first interpretation triggers feelings of disgust cause it just reads so platonic to me. I always saw romantic love as the second distant love closest to God’s Love for us, the first one and being the love for a mother and a her child. And apparently that love is also gone too. What if the love we’re suppose to feel in heaven is too close for platonic love for me?

We don’t know much about heaven-In fact, this was pretty much the only thing Jesus has ever said about it. I usually don’t like to think about the afterlife, I’m definitely not primarily motivated in my worship by the idea of an ‘award’ at the end of my life, no. I’m motivated by my love for God and wanting to treat His Creation with kindness and care. I don’t love my neighbor but I know God loves them and I will take care of them for Him while I am here. But that seems to be the only kind of love in heaven.

For the first time, I’m wondering if there really is anything in heaven for me.

[darlingdevout]

she’s here and she’s BEEFY

i haven’t had much time to flip through but there’s even optional prayers for feast days along with brief descriptions of each saint :’) i really just wanted my own missal to follow along with during mass 🩷 so happy to have it in time for Divine Mercy Sunday!