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GIVEAWAY: A Children’s Missal

June 7, 2023 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Book Review, Giveaway, Holy Mass, Missal, Uncategorized Leave a Comment

A GIVEAWAY in honor of the blessed feast of the Sacred Heart!!!

Such a gem as this did not exist when most of my children were little. I’m so thankful that it’s available now and look forward to using it for our home studies of the Holy Mass and preparation for Sundays.

The images are absolutely stunning — calming with subdued colors and rich with detail. The book size and weight are perfect for little hands — not too big or heavy to hold and not too small that it is hard to read or see images. But my favorite part is that it uses the Fr. Lasance Missal, pre-1955 Holy Mass. ➕

If you’re looking to add to your home library, study the Holy Mass, or in need of a “starter” missal for a little one in your life, this is for you!

You may order from @tanbooks. Use code JOYFILLED15 for a discount.

Enter this GIVEAWAY! 🎉

I’m giving away a copy of Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus: An Introductory Latin Missal for Children from @tanbooks

HERE’S HOW TO ENTER:
📕 Follow @joyfilledfamily
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📕 Leave a comment telling me how you would use/share this sweet missal

BONUS ENTRIES:
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**The giveaway closes at 11:59 pm PST On the Octave Day of Corpus Christ (June 15th) and the winner will be announced on June 16th, the feast of the Sacred Heart.

*This giveaway is NOT affiliated with IG. Must be 18+ to enter. Shipping only in the continental USA.

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Courtship and the Saints

June 5, 2023 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Book Review, Marriage, Saint Quotes, Spiritual Reflections, Uncategorized Leave a Comment

There are now coaches for everything — including wellness, finances, and life at large. But where are the elders, specifically the Titus II Men & Women?

We must seek out all we can to sanctify our lives, marriages, families — our entirety. This book gives excellent examples for us to live holy lives as we court and marry. It provides marriage coaching of sorts from our heavenly Titus II Men & Women — the best kind, that which leads us to our final goal.

It has been a perfect antidote for me during this season of exhaustion as we end another homeschool year while juggling all the demands that summer brings and constantly being confronted by the gloom of the current state of affairs with glimpses that we may be nearing end times more rapidly than once perceived. In fact, I was going to share such a warning from a holy shepherd. Instead, my recent efforts to work on gratitude while asking for the grace to live my state of life to the fullest led me to reading this book.

It definitely filled my cup, reading like multiple good love stories, much better than any romantic comedy. No over romanticizing led by passions of the flesh or wasted time on earthly things — all holy inspiration that led me to a deeper gratitude, love for my beloved spouse, and desire to be a better wife & mother — all for the LOVE OF GOD.

So, while we must wade through all the troubles that are riddling the present day, let us use all that the Good Lord has provided for us. Let us seek holy encouragement as we journey home.

Order Courtship of the Saints: How the Saints Met their Spouses from @tan_books — from here. Use the discount code JOYFILLED15 for a savings.

It is easy to read and reference as needed. Great for young people, those discerning, marriages in all states (all must be tended to), and parents who have a duty to instruct on such matters.

Drop a heart ❤️ or leave a message if you regularly tend to improving your marriage or had a blessed courtship. Leave a double heart 💕 if you’re in the season of discernment. We will keep each of you in our prayers!

+AMDG+

💗 Lena

A Gem for Mothers

January 14, 2013 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Book Review, Meditation, Motherhood, Rule of Life

Perfection is accomplishing the will of God in a constant and generous fashion. That person, then, is perfect who does at every instant what God wishes. Ask her at any moment what she is doing, and she will always respond: “That which God wishes.”

~ Monsignor P. Lejeun, Counsels of Perfection for CHRISTIAN MOTHERS

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I wanted to re-share this gem since I am re-reading it this New Year.  I recommend this book to all mothers.  It is packed with precise direction and meditations that seem to be a personal prescription for all my needs.CPCM

Counsels of Perfection for CHRISTIAN MOTHERS is written by Monsignor P. Lejeun.  It is out of print but can be found online as a PDF.  An audio version is also available.

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    • COUNSELS OF PERFECTION FOR CHRISTIAN MOTHERS.  Father P. Lejuene explains in very practical ways what real Christian Perfection is.  He goes through the various Spiritual Exercises and explains how to derive the most benefit from them.  He addresses his book to Christian Mothers, but it is very beneficial to all.  Imprimatur 1913.  Three Tapes read by MH.  
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I am diligently working on refining my Rule of Life.

Every woman, whatever her lot in life, and whatever her obligations, ought to have a rule of life. Of course, the rule of a religious will be less open to modification, and will entail greater precision and severity than yours. Nevertheless, you must have a rule, otherwise your life will be squandered in a thousand follies and futilities.

~Counsels of Perfection for CHRISTIAN MOTHERS

Below are my two objectives that I am currently working on, taken from the Counsels of Perfection for Christian Mothers.

  • I shall draw up for myself a rule of life, adapted to my state, comprising only a few articles, and capable of being applied to the diverse circumstance of my life. I shall ask myself every evening if I have observed this rule in all its essentials.
  • I shall be faithful to the following rule which, so to speak, multiplies time, and permits even the busiest person to find time for everything.
    • The rule is this: I shall never put off what I can do now.

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“My God, what will happen to me today, I do not know; but I do know that nothing will happen to me which Thou hast not foreseen and ordained for my greater good.  I accept, then, Thy thrice holy will; I submit myself to it, and desire to delight in it despite all the revolts of my reason, and the repugnances of my nature.”

~ Monsignor P. Lejeun encourages all to recite this morning prayer of Mme. Elizabeth, daughter of a king, and sister of Louis XVI.

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You can find more, here.

Counsels of Perfection for CHRISTIAN MOTHERS

March 16, 2011 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Book Review, Meditation, Motherhood

“My God, what will happen to me today, I do not know; but I do know that nothing will happen to me which Thou hast not foreseen and ordained for my greater good.  I accept, then, Thy thrice holy will; I submit myself to it, and desire to delight in it despite all the revolts of my reason, and the repugnances of my nature.” ~ Monsignor P. Lejeun encourages all to recite this morning prayer of Mme. Elizabeth, daughter of a king, and sister of Louis XVI.
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I found this gem last year at my parish’s used book sale.  I spotted it from afar.  I was beyond excited when I saw the price tag of $0.50.  Yet, I will still a bit apprehensive.  I only had $3 cash to spend and I questioned the book’s orthodoxy, given that it was in the used book sale.  I mean, really, if the book was helpful, why was it up for sale.  Just then Mary, a wonderful veteran homeschooling mom of 11 kids stopped me to say, “Lena, I have that book.  It’s wonderful.  I’m currently re-reading it and have it by my bedside.”  That was it, Our Blessed Mother spoke to me through her chosen one, Mary.  

Ad Jesum per Mariam ~ To Jesus through Mary

I haven’t put the book down since and I can’t stop sharing it with others.  I recommend this book to all mothers.  It is packed with precise direction and meditations that seem to be a personal prescription for all my needs.
Here are excerpts taken from Monsignor P. Lejeun’s Counsels of Perfection for CHRISTIAN MOTHERS.

Chapter  II – A CATALOGUE OF SOULS.
What is the state of my soul?  What place do I occupy, with regard to God, in the great family of Christian souls?  These, my daughters, are questions to which you must not be indifferent.  In order to furnish you with the elements of a response to these questions, I intend to draw up a catalogue of souls which will enable you to determine to what category you belong.  My purpose, I must avow, is not solely to satisfy your curiosity.  When you know just where your place is in this catalogue you should aspire to a higher degree of excellence in the hierarchy of souls.  It is my purpose to guide you in your upward march, to point out the halting-places along the way, and to indicate the means by which you can arrive most quickly and most surely at the coveted goal.
Chapter  V – THE NEED OF A RULE OF LIFE.
Let me call your attention to the advantages of a rule of life.  First, it saves you from yourselves, so to speak; from the spirit of caprice which finds its way so easily into your actions, and robs you of the greater part of your merit.  We all are tempted to do only what pleases us, and to avoid sacrifices as much as possible.  An act needs but to take on the appearance of duty to become an object of aversion to us.  The result is that unless you are bound by a rule, your lives will drift unceasingly; they will float along guided only by caprice, and the sense of duty will be almost entirely lost.  In that case it is your own will that you have followed from morning until evening, and not the will of God…..Here is another article that ought to find its place in your rule:  morning and evening prayers should be said kneeling.  Moreover, there is hardly one among you who cannot spend a quarter of an hour each day in spiritual reading.  You should have a special article binding you to that.  Those of you who have the time, and who are unwilling to be satisfied with merely earthly piety, ought to take measures to make a meditation every morning, and also to attend Holy Mass each day, or at least several times during the week

I was sad to learn that this gem is out of print and copies are going for $90+ on Amazon.  My sadness was short lived, I found a PDF copy of the book.  Here is the link to the online book of  Counsels of Perfection for CHRISTIAN MOTHERS.

I urge you to read this gem if you are on the journey of perfection.

**UPDATE**
Here is an updated the link to the online book version. 

There is also a site that offers MP3 audio of the book, JMJsite.

COUNSELS OF PERFECTION FOR CHRISTIAN MOTHERS.  Order No. 12. Father P. Lejuene explains in very practical ways what real Christian Perfection is.  He goes through the various Spiritual Exercises, and explains how to derive the most benefit from them.  He addresses his book to Christian Mothers, but it is very beneficial to all.  Imprimatur 1913.  Three Tapes read by MH. 
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Perfection is accomplishing the will of God in a constant and generous fashion. 
~ Monsignor P. Lejeun, Counsels of Perfection for CHRISTIAN MOTHERS

Hi! I'm Lena, mama of JOYfilledfamily.
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