Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Maddie
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Posted: May 05 2008 at 12:59pm | IP Logged Quote Maddie

That has been my constant prayer for years now, somedays or years more intense then others. Lately, it's all I can say before the tears flow.

We may be losing our home to foreclosure soon. We have always struggled financially but always managed to rob Peter or Paul to get by. Now, our options are exhausted and we too are exhausted. The world today makes it so difficult for a large family like ours to survive in. We have 8 children and my dh is a sweet, dear and a holy man but a poor printer. We just can't ever seem to make ends meet. I don't know where we will go or what we will do, it seems like we can't live anywhere and make it. We moved from a very expensive area to "Radiator Springs", as my children call it, and we still can't do it.

My dh is so sad. He feels like such a failure. It all seems so very, very hopeless. I keep wondering why God gave us the desire to be open to children and to live a Catholic homeschooling life if it will all be taken from us because we have to work 3 jobs to provide.

If you could spare a second, please pray for us. I keep repeating the Divine Mercy prayer, "...so that in difficult moments we may not despair nor become desponded, but with great confidence, submit ourselves to Your Holy Will, which is love and mercy itself."

Please forgive the whining, I tried to provide the abridged version.

Thank you.

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 1:02pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM

I am praying for you and with you. This is such a hard struggle.

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 1:05pm | IP Logged Quote Taffy

You are in my prayers, Maddie.

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 1:06pm | IP Logged Quote SusanJ

Prayers for you.

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 1:18pm | IP Logged Quote guitarnan

Praying for your family, Maddie.

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 1:43pm | IP Logged Quote mary theresa

oh, Maddie, you strong woman. I will pray for you!

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 1:58pm | IP Logged Quote amyable

Praying, Maddie!

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 1:59pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM

Not whining, Maddie. Legitmate concern! I'll join you in prayer.

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 2:00pm | IP Logged Quote Maryan

prayers here maddie

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 2:04pm | IP Logged Quote missionfamily

Maddie--This must be so difficult. I know how the ups and downs of our business affect dh and how it eventually gets to me, and our struggles are not what yours are. I will be praying for you and will offer my afternoon Chaplet for you.

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 2:08pm | IP Logged Quote LisaR

maddie, praying with you. we, too, are working three jobs to get by and it has always "worked" until now. how do you make more money out of nothing to pay all of the bills that have risen?? food, gas, utilities. we kind of half joke that the 12.99 DSL internet connection is the only thing we have left- but it is true. everything else is firmly in the "Need" category, not a want or frivolous.
praying to St Joseph the Worker for you and your family, especially your dh.
my dh works for the Church- guess what pays his salary? tithes, which of course are the first thing people stop doing in a recession.

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 2:09pm | IP Logged Quote cvbmom

Praying here, too. Jesus, we trust in you!

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Praying here, too. Jesus, we trust in you!

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 2:40pm | IP Logged Quote Ruth

Storming heaven for you, Maddie.

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Posted: May 05 2008 at 2:50pm | IP Logged Quote aussieannie

Oh Maddie, a big hug for you! I don't know what to say in a way but Mother Teresa's words are coming to me:

"It is important to be faithful not successful."

Due to your faithfulness you are not supposedly leveling up to the world's understanding of success but you are blessed with more than many a rich family out there.

I will be offering the Divine Mercy Chaplet everyday for a week for you and your dear husband.

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Oh Maddie, I am sending you a hug!! You and your husband are so very blessed. My Dh calls it rolling in the dough($$) when all of our children gather around him. He says look how rich we are. I am lifting you and your family up in my Divine Mercy Chaplet today!

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Praying Maddie!

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