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Catholic mom, Catholic women, and ALL friends seeking God- WELCOME! This is a podcast designed to provide my fellow sisters in Christ with encouragement and support for the beautiful and difficult journey of living out our vocations. Truth is that motherhood, marriage, and living out our feminine genius are incredibly hard endeavors. Yet, through the perseverance of pursuing all that is good, true, and beautiful we are tenderly being transformed into vessels of God's love, one tiny dish, meeting, or dirty diaper at a time.
So, join me, Suzanne - homeschooling momma of 6, every week as we journey together with a Mary & Martha mission towards "stilling our souls WHILE moving our world." Together, let's sit at the feet of Christ like Mary, while moving with the gusto and strength of Martha! Join me and my friends as we laugh, cry, dive deep, and explore with one another as navigate wifehood, motherhood, and sisterhood with our eyes on Christ.
Let us encourage you in your mighty and holy work of motherhood and wifehood!
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"But Jesus called them to him, saying, Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.'" - Luke 18:16 Do you ever feel weary, rundown, and quite frankly just not good enough? The vocation of of motherhood is one of the most difficult and yet beautiful and profound things we will ever do. Yet, sometimes we just don’t think we have what it takes. But what if the truth of the matter is that God never asked us to be good eno...
“The Rosary is scripture on a string, each bead marking a place in the Bible. But it is more than that. It is the rhythmic contemplation of the mysteries of Christ's story. It is the ‘epitome of the whole gospel’ (CCC 971). The repeated prayers set the rhythm- the quiet cadence that brings us into his presence. And the scripture stories of our savior give us breath” - Elizabeth Foss, 𝑷𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 Next week, we will be beginning a Lenten Series on the Sorrowful Mysteries. But before we journey with...
Hey friends! This week, we discuss something that has been life-giving in my life. Spending time cultivating rhythm and order may seem silly at first glance, but I have found over the years that family rhythms can be a real source of life for our hearts and souls. St. Paul mentions in 1 Corinthians 14:40 that "all things should be done decently and in order." This is a good reminder to us all, that whether regarding the interior life or the home life, all things should be done decently ...
Friends, I could not be more excited to share this conversation with you all. Today, I wrap up the prayer series we have been doing with speaker, author, and ministry leader - Jason Evert. We dive headfirst into a very important topic, the last line of the prayer, which is "Rush for Nothing at All!" What does this mean? When praying through this line, one of my all-time favorite saints kept flooding my heart. Saint John Paul the Great was an exemplary model of never rushing. During his...
I'm excited to be jumping into the third part of this prayer series and second part of the prayer itself to explore the piece - "Soften My Face & Quiet My Voice." It was such a delight to have the joyful momma blogger, Alexandria DeRose, join me to explore this topic. There is a universal calling placed onto the hearts of every woman alike to soften our faces and quiet our voices. But we must be careful here, as this does not mean we must all be soft-spoken, quiet, or passive. Rather, s...
This week we dive head first into the first line of the prayer we are exploring: “Break me from the need to control, free me from this bondage.” I couldn’t be more delighted to have had the chance to sit down with my sweet friend and momma mentor, Bonnie Landry, to discuss the idea of letting go of control. Our weary souls are often grasping tightly to as much control as we can maintain because we subconsciously believe it will bring order, rhythm and freedom to our days. However, God ...
This week we kick off a new series that is very near and dear to my heart with a very special guest, Father Mark-Mary, CFR. The series relates to a prayer that our Lord placed on my heart a year ago. Over the next few weeks, we will be diving into the various components to this prayer: "Lord, break me from the need to control Free me from this bondage. Soften my face, quiet my voice, and let me rush for nothing at all!" But before diving into each piece, I wanted to kick start our series ...
This week’s episode was something my own momma heart needed so desperately to hear. After a tear-filled cry to momma Mary, I was reminded that “Newsflash: You are not responsible for your children’s happiness.” We mommas love our children so profoundly and deeply, that we often carry around a heavy chain of responsibility that was never meant for our shoulders. Instead, our prime duty to our children, is not to ensure their happiness, but rather to simply love them. It isn’t always eas...
I am so excited to share this conversation with you all. I had the chance to sit down with my dear friend, and author Dr. Bob Schuchts on the fundamental truth that we all need healing. Dr. Bob is the founder of the John Paul II Healing Center, and is a nationally renowned speaker. Bob is the author of Be Healed: Encountering the Powerful Love of Jesus in Your Life, and Be Transformed: The Healing Power of the Sacraments. His beautiful wisdom into the human soul and the importance of heal...
Emptiness- is it as bad as it seems? In fact, it is my word of the year! Now, before you start to worry and feel bad for my weary heart, there is so much in this episode that I would love to share with you about the greater and bigger meaning behind emptiness, that I have only begun to discover. The word empty which Webster defines as "containing nothing, not occupied or inhabited", is often associated with darkness, loneliness and despair. To feel a deep sense of emptiness can be a t...
Hey Friends! Welcome back to a brand-new season of Latte & Laundry. We open up Season 3 with the start of a new year, 2022. For many of us 2021 was not an easy year. In fact, it was often filled with confusion and anxiety. Yet, through Christ's most perfect example at the wedding of Cana, we can see how the dry and empty can often be transformed into something beautiful and new. I am so excited to welcome my first guest of Season 3, my very dear friend and fellow podca...
In our season finale we are excited about our last topic: Breathing Life into our Children. As parents, we can do so much good for our kids but we can also cause so much damage through our words and actions. We often forget how incredibly important words are, especially for young minds and hearts. It is our job as parents to love and be patient with our children just as God is so unbelievably patient with us and our many mistakes. Though it's not always easy to uplift and be patient, God is...
In this episode we are stripping away and revealing the truth behind the idea of worldly perfectionism. In this day in age we often feel the need to prove ourselves to others, and in trying to fulfill this wayward desire, we forget our true purpose and that is of perfect unity with Christ. Perfection can have a very negative connotation because it frequently takes over our thoughts and minds like when we put impossible expectations on ourselves: I must be the perfect mother, I must be the p...
As we wrap up our four 'D' word series we wanted to end with another positive word. What better way to end than with our ultimate calling, being a disciple of Christ. To be a true disciple of Christ means we follow and imitate His ways and no one else. What we do and say is a reflection of the one that we follow. That is why we have to be so careful about who or what we follow. The world around us draws us into comfort and ease and often times we are tempted to seek out things that ma...
This week we are excited to talk about a powerful word, delight. We are moving from the dangerous words to such powerful words. Our word this week focuses both on how God delights so much in us but also how we are called to delight in everything and everyone around us. Life can often become impossible to bear and things around us become a blur but when we can stop and delight in things around us it can change us to the core. It draws us outwards and not only changes us but changes those ar...
This week we are continuing our four part 'D' word series. Our focus will be on the dangerous word of Despair. Despair is not sadness, grief, or heart shattering pain. It is the "utter loss of hope." (Webster dictionary) Life will always bring crosses and we have every right to feel sad, angry, and frustrated by what has happened to us. God, however, has given us the great virtue of hope to keep us from despair. Jesus came to be the hope that every heart needs. Christ is hope. He...
We are so excited to start a new four part series on two dangerous 'D' words and two powerful 'D' words! In this episode we focus on the dangerous 'D' word: Deserve. It's a word we toss around and use easily and carelessly without giving much thought to what we are proclaiming. Though there are truths to the word, for example, we deserve the right to life, we deserve worth and dignity but when we look at it in other ways, it can be very dangerous to how we view things. When we focus on Chri...
This week we were so blessed to spend time chatting with author, speaker, blogger, podcaster, and spiritual mother to many- Sally Clarkson. Her new book “Help I’m Drowning: Weathering the Storms of Life with Grace and Hope” couldn’t be available at a more critical time in our world today. With the intense political atmosphere, pandemic woes, overseas crisis, new school year and fall activities kicking into gear, Sally’s book so beautifully speaks into the hearts of many. This world is bro...
This week we complete our series on the Transcendentals with Truth. Truth is the final one we talk about because it tends to be the more difficult of the transcendentals to draw us to God. "The truth will set you free." (Jn 8:32) But the question is, what is truth? In this episode we dive into what truth is: subjective vs objective. Subjective truth can change based on what my likes and dislikes are while objective truth is unchanging regardless of my feelings towards it. For example,...
In this weeks episode we are continuing on to the next transcendental- Goodness. Goodness something that cannot be made or taken away it simply is what is. All being has an innate goodness but we must recognize that though everything has goodness there is a hierarchy to it. Broccoli, for example, does not have the same goodness as a child. They are profoundly different and we cannot compare them at the same level. In today's society it has become much more difficult to know what...
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I love this, we have tried this every year and always fail. We have 7 and one on one is always so hard. Thanks for sharing the date of their birthday!💗
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