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New Firsts

Well Therese turned 6 months old last Friday. How quickly she is growing! At her doctor’s visit, she weighed 15 lbs 8 oz, and measured 26.5 inches in length. Those percentiles were still at 50 and 75 respectively. She has a small head though–it’s in the 25th percentile.

She’s been eating rice cereal for a week and last Friday she had her first vegetable–SQUASH! Yesterday she had her second–carrots–and she ate the whole jar of baby food. With all this real food comes poopier diapers. :P Cloth diapering isn’t as fun as it used to be now that it’s a little smellier. But she’s still doing great.

We started trying to put her to bed in her room. The other night she slept almost until 5:30 a.m. It was awesome. Slowly but surely.

She’s also ready to crawl. She sits up and rocks back and forth. She looks like a frog ready to leap. I supposed we’ll need to child proof very soon.

She has also mastered the sound for “m.” Quite frequently she’ll say, “uhmmmaamma.” I’d like to think she’s saying ‘mama.’ Who knows…but we’re working on the “d,” sound next.

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The Shield of Faith

Fr. Corapi gave a series of talks in Austin a few years back and he spoke on one of his favorite topics: Spiritual Warfare. His usual discourse draws heavily from St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, chapter 6. Verse 16 says, “In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all (the) flaming arrows of the evil one.” To paraphase his interpretation:

What is “faith”? The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that faith is “Both a gift of God and a human act by which the believer gives personal adherence to God who invites his response, and freely assents to the whole truth that God has revealed” (my emphasis). So if we as Catholics do not accept the whole truth as taught by the Church, given to us by God who is Truth himself, then according to St. Paul… we have holes in our shield. And where do you suppose the evil one will aim his “flaming arrows”?

What’s the condition of your shield these days?

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