Movie Review: For Greater Glory

This past weekend Brian and I got to go on a last minute date(YEAH!) and decided to go for a late night movie. But we never go to the movies, we just feel that our time and money is better spent else where, especially when we don't get out as much as we'd like. Anyway, this movie was different, very different and definitely worth the time and money. I was so inspired and moved to the point of an almost spontaneous heart combustion that I had HAD to share my thoughts, so here they are.

This film "For Greater Glory", was such an incredible piece of art! The photography was superb, the acting incredible and the story was seriously divinely inspired. The story of a young mischievous (at least from the directors point of view) boy whose life was touched by one person who saw good in him, became the hero. A hero for believers and non-believers alike, a hero for his Faith, his country, and for freedom. A saint to encourage us all to stand up for the Truth and fight for our right to worship God freely.

This isn't coincidence that the film has made it's appearance now, it is very fitting for our time here in America, where the Church and the family is under attack by our very government. I have heard priest and holy people say that very soon the Church in America will undergo such persecution, even an Archbishop.


  Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Francis George, made a sombre prediction two years ago: “I expect to die in bed; my successor will die in prison; and his successor will die a martyr in the public square.”


Not to go all serious and grim on you but I feel the need to express what has been on my heart lately: Hope! Great hope that our family and loved ones have this opportunity for greatness. God has given us (the Church) the tools and graces we need to be saints in time of peace or persecution. We just have to reach for them. 


 The more we seek out these gifts and listen to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit the more we will know the will of the Father and in doing so we give Him the Greater Glory.


So, brothers and sisters, I encourage you to watch the movie but mostly to live boldly for Christ. In doing so we die to ourselves and grasp more fully the life of peace He so longs to give us.

Blessed Jose del Rio, pray for us!

From Elise's Kitchen:

Toasty Coconut Macaroons

Ok So I made these and they are bomb!  This is an Alton Brown recipe. I melted some semi sweet chocolate chips and dipped the tops. Very good and simple.

Ingredients

4 large egg whites
Pinch salt
1/2 cup sugar
1 (8-ounce) package sweetened shredded coconut, lightly toasted

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a mixer fitted with a whip attachment. whip egg whites and salt until they become white and begin to stiffen. Add sugar in 3 parts. Continue to whip until the egg whites are very stiff. Using a rubber spatula fold in toasted coconut.

On parchment lined cookie sheets, drop a teaspoon of the mixture leaving 1 to 2 inches around each cookie. Place into the oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes. The outside should be golden brown but the insides should still be moist.

- Elise 

Make sure to check out Clare's favorite cookies!


(Note from Sarah:  Siblings, please share your favorite recipes here. If I get enough I can organize them on a separate page by kitchen. Don't be shy and share! Thanks Elise!)

My first week in Spain!

Hello everyone,

I haven't even been here in Spain for a week yet and it feels like Iv'e been here for a month. We have done many things this last week. Yesterday some of the candidates and novices, me included, went on pilgrimage with people who are visiting us from down south, to a monastery in the mountains that has the largest piece of the true cross, we got to venerate it! It was so great! We then went to a place where we could go up on top of the peaks of Europe in a type of sky train! I went! Besides being expensive, It was so amazing! I was very nervous to go at first because you are pretty much being suspended through the air in a small car type thing which hangs from two cables, nothing else is around you and let me just tell you, we weren't going to the highest peak but, the peaks of Europe are very tall!!! When we got up there, it was like nothing else, we could see so so far and everything was so tiny! I saw more of the magnificence of God! He is so awesome!

Anyway, I could tell you lots more but I must go very soon! I wanted to tell you all though that you can watch the Mass that we are having tonight and you will be able to see me there! If you want, here is the web address: www.homeofthemother.org/webcam

I think the mass will show at 2pm ET.  Make sure to put on the translation for the homily and make sure you have good internet connection. If there is a commercial, just wait it will end shortly!

I love you all and I hope you can watch it and see my little family here in Spain! If you do watch it, you will probably see our visitors here from Seville Spain(all the older people)

Ok gotta go. God Bless