https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/cardinal-sarahs-warning Demographic catastrophe! O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
As plain as the nose on one's face. It is already too late to reverse. We're heading for 'Eurabia'. It's good enough for us. We can't say we weren't warned, but a century and more of industrially killing one another, adopting lifestyles of barren sex and murdering our successors isn't going to pass without consequences. We can only pray for a miracle of conversion of the Mohammedans before handing over our keys.
Was going to hit the "like" button for the above, Padraig, and suddenly realized I couldn't. May Our Lady of Fatima reverse the tide!
The meek will indeed inherit the earth, though they may have to live under a caliphate. I married at 26 and have four children. I have seven grandchildren, that’s already under replacement level. Three of my children married in their 30s. Two were girls who have had problems with childbearing. I suspect they wouldn’t have if they had had children younger. One does want another one and is sad that she’s unlikely to have a Catholic brood. I must add that my late-married daughters would love to have married younger but found it hard to meet Mr Right. The daughter who married in her 20s is extremely maternal but her husband didn’t want children, so they settled on one. It is a huge sadness for me. Our society has failed on so many levels and the decline in marriage and fertility is a death spiral that it can’t fix. We do indeed live in a culture of death. So sad.
My sisters and I are trying to do our part. We've got 11 children between the 3 of us so far! Our brother will be no help, since he's going to be a priest.
Jeremiah 12:7 God's Answer to Jeremiah …6Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you. 7I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies. 8My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.…
I have 3 adult children and 10 grandchildren and please God the twins are on the way. We are blessed as 2 children seems to be the norm sometimes 3. My husband came from a large family of 11 children. I admire the women of the generation before me who raised large families with limited resources.
I had 3 children. We lost our oldest in 2009. The other boys have 5 children between them so I feel I have had an excellent return on my investment. 5 grandchildren is a great gift. I wish I could have had more children but health issues made that risky. Like you I admire the women of my parents generation. Up and down the neighborhood when I was growing up were families of 12, and 6 and five. We were the odd ones out. My parents married late so only 2 of us.
Awesome! Amazing family! Kindly remind us - you have 4 so far, right? May I ask? Over here, we are at number 3. Not that it's a competition, though.... But yeah, I would love to have another one, but my wife is not so keen. Perhaps later, who knows. My wife is 32... But she was a single child, so raising kids and doing the household is hard for her. I have one sister only. She is single and has one adopted son. My mum thinks I have gone crazy since I got baptised and confirmed as a Catholic at age 35. Even though my mum is technically a Catholic herself... I am 49 now and I have some chronic health issues due to bad stress eating habits. Not sure if it is a good idea to have more kids, but I must say that I would love to... In our traditional Catholic parish, we have many large families. My kids' classmates belong to families of 7, families of 6, one family of 8 and so on and so forth. I am not even sure, I can't keep up with counting. Our old church needs to be torn down and rebuilt much larger, as the parish is growing and we don't have enough seating despite having three Sunday masses. God bless all here! We will keep praying for the forum members and all their families and loved ones at our family Rosaries...
No, no, no PF. His openness to a priestly call only opens the floodgates of grace more! Song of Songs 8:5 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. Sacrificial love freely given, multiplies! Generosity toward God will in turn be blessed by God. If a family is generous toward God by encouraging vocations, then God will bless the parents with the gift of grandchildren. For the love of God expressed through the willingness to encourage a vocation will redound to the benefit of future generations. Such is my conviction. This is one reason why JoeJerk has pushed the contraception and abortion envelope. To have only a couple of children intensifies the desire for grandchildren and generates a reluctance to encourage vocations. So a willingness among you and your siblings to encourage your brother's vocation, opens the door to be blessed with children and grandchildren. Thus the love of God bears fruit, not only in the lives we touch, but in the lives we offer to God. I wish I had access to my son, Benjamin, on the day of his embrace of his vows; Patrick will have to again suffice!
Well he will be much needed. He needs to pray for you and your sisters and spouses for sheer strength
Amazing fact about Queen Victoria. The British monarchy have had such hard hearts. They didn’t help the Czar of Russia either.
Yes, I have 4 on earth plus 3 in Heaven! Getting pregnant is typically not easy for me...but not much is, haha. God likes me to persist in prayer for things. My husband and I have always been completely open to God's timing and will have as many as He deigns to grant us. I'm 38, so may be able to convince God to send me a couple more.
