Words of Comfort

Friends and Family, as many of you wrote, there are no words. But there are words of forgiveness and peace.

Many of you said that our trust in God’s plan is inspiring, but what has been inspiring to us is the amount of grace we feel from each of your prayers. It is truly this grace that has granted us an abundance of peace, and forgiveness. We hope this experience helps to remind all of us, of the power of prayer and the power of praise!

Here are just a few quotes that people sent or we came across to ease our disappointment and pain. We thank you all for your sweet notes, and we apologize if we have not responded yet!

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"We are invited to let ourselves be visited in our littleness, our poverty, our weaknesses, to receive a new strength: the strength of trust and faith."

~Jacques Philippe, The Way of Trust and Love (2 Cor. 12:9)

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"Give thanks in everything, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."

~1 Thess. 5:18

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“Always be joyful. Always keep on praying. No matter what happens, always be thankful, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Jesus."

~1 Thess 5:16-18

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“Rest in peace. Everything is in God’s control.” 

~ St. Philomena

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"It is quite true that the most faithful servants of the Blessed Virgin, being also her greatest favorites, receive from her the greatest graces and favors of Heaven, which are crosses.  But I maintain that it is also the servants of Mary who carry these crosses with more ease, more merit, and more glory.  That which would stay the progress of another a thousand times, over, or perhaps would make him fall, does not once stop their steps, but rather enables them to advance; because that good Mother, all full of grace and of the the unction of the Holy Spirit, prepares her servants' crosses with so much maternal sweetness and pure love as to make them gladly acceptable, no matter how bitter they may be in themselves."

~St. Louis de Monfort

(What is amazing about this quote is that I, Lauren, started the Marian Consecration just a few days before we received the call about the baby. I finished this consecration just two weeks before he was born. I know I can thank this Consecration for the joy of anticipation, and the peace in disappointment.)