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Rachel Cecilia

6 years

From morning prayer: “Arise, soldiers of Christ, throw away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.” (St. Cecilia to her husband and brother-in-law before they were killed)

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

After two years, I’m no longer church-homeless, and I will never be church-homeless again.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

Blessed be the sweet and holy name of Jesus. 💛

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Rachel Cecilia

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1 year

@The_Hellenist There’s one God who made heaven and earth and everything in it. We can’t offer sacrifices to anyone else; that’s a total non-starter for Christians.

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Rachel Cecilia

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2 years

Sign out front: NO political signs, shirts, hats, buttons past this point. Me: 😇

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

@washingtonpost This is a slanted summary. The Church has opposed abortion since the first century, long before the U.S. and its politics existed. This teaching is not “right-wing.” You are not the arbiter of our faith. Her teaching is publicly available:

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

Friends, on Sunday I am saying goodbye to internet/email/phone and entering a monastery (not the one I had originally planned, but… Fiat, etc.!). Time to get serious about loving God and begging him for mercy and favor in these dark times. ✝️

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

Please pray for me today. I feel so spiritually weak and run-down and fatigued. Please just trace the sign of the cross over this tweet; thank you. ✝️✝️✝️

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

@gravite56 @ExileGrimm I believed all women were born with microscopic babies inside them that would develop and come out at some random time when she was an adult.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

I’m back. The monastery is good, but cloistered life is too hard for me. I burned out at about three weeks. I was trying to be open to God’s direction, but at this point I feel like a car engine that has no oil left.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

1 year

Just got out of confession 💜💜💜 Time for some birthday cake! 💙

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

A former coworker of mine is dying. He doesn’t believe in God and has refused spiritual care even though it’s been offered. I don’t think he has much time left. Please pray God opens his eyes. His name is Jeff.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

I’m starting to feel a connection with Our Lady of Guadalupe. I can’t exactly articulate why, but she seems to be powerful against anti-life p*ganism.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

Finally a bride on “Say Yes to the Dress” stood up to Randy about showing cleavage because, she said, “I’m trying to get to heaven.” YES. 💖

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

Confirmation is preparation for martyrdom, not an 8th-grade graduation party.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

Today at Mass, a man decided it was time to hear the bells again, so he spontaneously walked forward during the EP, knelt where the child servers used to be, and rang the bells at the appropriate times. 💛 I haven’t heard them at my parish since before covid. 😭

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

24 days

My fiancé said I could finally post our engagement pictures from my birthday party two weeks ago. I still can hardly believe this happened. #rosegoldeverything 🧡💍💖

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

Pray for someone trying to get an ab*rtion please

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

These Christ the King shirts from @BaritusCatholic are flying off the shelves, so I’m so happy I got one. They come in gray, too!

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 months

Thought I might have some fun at Pl*nned P*r*nthood today. 😇✝️ #AveMaria @gothiccasual

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

1 year

I wish we could normalize post-Mass church potlucks and picnic lunches together instead of going our separate ways while the socio-economically advantaged force the socio-economically disadvantaged to work on Sundays.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

I don’t love the Lord enough. 😓

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

I just applied for another job; I'm really excited about this one. PRAY for me, please!

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

We need more (and more frequent) Eucharistic processions. Once a year isn’t enough.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

10 months

If anyone is awake right now who can pray for my safety and my car’s safety, I would appreciate that. Some threatening comments are being made.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

@washingtonpost Try a less-judgmental summary that would earn more public trust: “Several U.S. Catholic bishops say the Catholic president’s support of abortion rights puts him at odds with the teachings of his faith.”

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

Like St. Maria Goretti, Jamie Schmidt was killed after refusing to comply with demanded sex acts. She knew that losing her life was a likely possibility, yet she decided she would rather accept that outcome. She is an admirable example for us. ✝️

Mrs. Jamie Schmidt; Catholic Wife and Mom; Martyred "In Defensum Castitatis" in St. Louis, Missouri...

The Roman Martyrology of the Catholic Church has thousands of names on its pages. However, that huge book may need to find space for the very first American who was matryred on American soil for...

www.catholic365.com

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

9 months

The “Halo” musician became a Catholic and is writing Church music 🔥 Was this a headline I somehow missed?

St. Jerome Fan

@StJeromeFan

9 months

@iChanticleer Marty O’Donnell is working on a requiem:

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

I renounce Satan. I renounce all his works. I renounce all his empty show.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

@AdrianFonze Let’s pray this prayer often. 🤍

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

1 year

Yesterday’s Peoria pilgrimage. 💛

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

Well. Finally told my parents today about my vocation and my plans. Somehow it seemed much less scary today than it did three weeks ago. Tfw your new vocational clarity is so sharp that it’s slicing you open. 🖤

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

First time sidewalk counseling today. Could you please trace the sign of the cross over this tweet for our efficacy and protection? Even if that’s all you do, I greatly appreciate it. ✝️

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

6 years

Last night, I told my parents they were invited to Easter Vigil. I was right to be afraid. It was a disaster. Still getting over it today. I’m thankful for hugs and prayers from friends earlier.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

It is truly right and just, our duty and salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks. 💛

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

Normally, Tuesday mornings are horrible. Today was much nicer. 💙

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

What a beautiful Monday to love God. A week ago today, I found out I was losing my job. Now I have truckloads of time to love God. ☀️

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

After five years of gradual decline at home with us, Grandma quietly left us sometime this morning. I had to ask the Lord to fix my attitude when she first moved in (he miraculously did), but having that time today with her body in our home was worth it. 🖤

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

You guys... 😁 Should we spoil it? Or nah? ❤️

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

@JihadiJoey I Googled a bit: St. Agatha is buried at the Church of the Abbey of St. Agatha in Catania, whereas this is the Church of St. Agatha al Collegio in Caltanissetta. This is, of course, still horrible. 💔🙏🏻

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

All I can think about right now is finding a place to stay and a decent source of income that doesn’t ask me to violate my conscience (which is becoming increasingly difficult). Pray for me.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

I just need to buy cases of “Jesus the Bridegroom” and give copies to people. A lot of other discussions can’t be fully had until we get this right. ❤️‍🔥

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

#WeBelieve Jesus is here! 💛

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

1 month

@ChidiNwatu @realDonaldTrump What’s wrong with posting a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe on the Nativity of Mary? Yes, Guadalupe’s specific day is Dec. 12, but we can have a devotion to her all year long.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

Today I moved into a new house with a holy women roommate squad. I’ve been wanting this for about 2.5 years. Thank you, thank you, thank you, God, for making this work out. 💖

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

Happy 8th Day of Christmas and Happy New Year and Happy Sunday! 💛

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

@ahumblebunnie @ExileGrimm My parents called it “the music truck” because they didn’t want us to know there was ice cream in there. My grandparents wrecked their plan. 😊

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

I cried tonight. I have waited so long. A year ago I was asking God every night to take my life while I slept, because I didn’t know what I was waiting for. I can hardly believe I’m here now, looking at two more days.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 months

Thankful for a pro-life prayer rally and a nice super-slow day at the ab*rtion facility. ✅

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

Most epic birthday cake EVER. I love it so much. 😍😭 St. Cecilia! ❤️🌿✝️ #happybirthdaytome

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

Midday Mass was packed today. A Sunday-sized crowd. So many people knelt for communion. There was a solemn joy in the air as we prayed the act of reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus aloud together. ❤️‍🔥

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

My sweet basilica reopened again this morning and I am riding a wave of happiness today 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 (photos from November 2019)

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

Who’s read this?

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

6 years

So, Catholic Social Teaching? 😊

Rich Nathan

@RichNathan

6 years

I long for a Christianity that is pro-woman AND pro-life, pro-immigrant AND pro-gospel preaching, pro-family AND pro-poor! Why do we Christians allow ourselves to be pushed into prepackaged political boxes when the Gospel of the Kingdom is so much better?

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

Merry Christmas! The Word became flesh, and we have seen his glory. 💛

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

Today I had planned to leave for my monastery. Over the weekend, I canceled my plans. I prayed for a particular knot to be undone, and by the last day of the novena, everything was undone. Life is weird and sad. 🤷🏼‍♀️ But I have peace. 🙏🏻☀️

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

We love you because you first loved us. We’re sorry we haven’t loved you enough. 😓

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

A year ago, I met a parish mom kneeling on the side of the cathedral, praying the Rosary in the light rain. The Mass had ended; I had been outside the front doors. I told her she could join me next Sunday. “I want to be here because this is where the tabernacle is,” she said.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

Thanks for all your prayers, everyone. I’m starting a new job today. (I left my old job in October 2018, a conflict of interest with me becoming Catholic, and I struggled with pride/financial issues around that.) Thankful for this new opportunity. Good-bye to journalism for now.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

Please say yes. #HappySunday 🤍

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

I’m scared. I feel like there’s a darkness gradually covering the whole world. I hope I’m wrong, but things are discouraging. Maranatha.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

6 years

Thanks to @AscensionPress for publishing my story of how I ended up Catholic when I finally realized neo-Donatism is futile:

Desire for Communion Leads Mennonite to the Catholic Church - Ascension Press Media

In a discussion with friends online, I lamented how I could not, in good conscience, participate in communion with anyone I knew was persisting in sin.

media.ascensionpress.com

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

It’s still Christmas, Jesus gang. 😄 It’s time to swoop in and grab all the 50-percent-off goodies now that the pagans are tired of partying. 😂 #winning

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

The Lord has really blessed me with some wonderful people in my life. 🤍 Happy Laetare Sunday! 💖

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

@CatholicArena It’s “traditional” to “talk about sin?” I thought that was just part of normal Christianity. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

Concept: Eucharistic processions, but more often.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

RT if you look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen. ☀️

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

@JessicaCoblentz What Catholic women are you talking to? Are they women who love going to Mass and praying the Rosary and frequent visits to the Blessed Sacrament? The ones I know are full of joy and hope about this.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

I just want to go to church and not leave. I want to live there. Imagine being able to go to daily Mass without having to get in your car and drive. 🥰 Quasi-heaven.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

You’d better watch out. Bishop St. Nicholas is coming to town (tomorrow). Now would be a great time to stop being a heretic — I’m just saying. 😇

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

“So we are forbidden to give up hope.” — @BishopBarron 🔥 (“Letter to a Suffering Church”)

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

Paganism is the expression of man’s subconscious desire to be Catholic. Fixed it for you. ✅😇

Klaatu Barada Nikto

@BobasBounty72

2 years

@RCNonsense Catholicism is Paganism dressed up like Christianity.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

I asked a favor of the Lord, and he granted it. On the feast day of our wonderful Benedictine mom, St. Scholastica, I received my visa. 🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍✝️

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

My roommates persuaded me to dress up. It was a good decision; now I feel more like a Christian. Also, God heard my tiny prayer and parted the clouds, yay! ☀️ #EasterSunday

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

6 years

It’s stunning to see Christians yelling at #Revoice18 to repent when repentance undergirds the event’s existence. This was the most costly display of repentance and faithfulness I’ve seen in the contemporary western church. Stop hurting the very people we should be supporting.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

I might be canceled for this, but I like candy corn. ☺️ Happy October!

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

11 months

She called to me across time and helped me come home to the Catholic Church. I saw this and thought, “I want to be part of this; I want to love the Lord that much.”

Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P.

@LawrenceOP

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He "left her there lying half alive and half dead, and she lived three days after in that manner, and gave all that she had to poor people, and continually preached the faith all that while". Close-up of Maderno's statue of St Cecilia in her martyrdom

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

I want roommates who: - are passionate about the Lord - will pray at least some of the Liturgy of the Hours with me - will pray a lot in general - will stay single for a long time - will stay together with me for a long time Even if I don’t begome a nun, I really want this.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

@AP @mbieseck @MRSmithAP This is normal, AP. All it means is that the husband is the home’s final decision-maker and chiefly responsible for the welfare of everyone within. This is normal for a lot of people, even not particularly religious people. Please stop reaching; it’s not a good look.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

Want to pray the Rosary in Latin with Italians who know how to pronounce it correctly? Amazing opportunity. ✝️🤍 #RosarioSocial

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

And another one wanted sleeves for religious reasons (Jewish) — and she specifically referenced our modest wedding-dress queen Kate Middleton. ✅✅✅ More sleeves, more sleeves, more sleeves! 🤍

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

9 days

I said yes to my dress yesterday. Just a quiet happy moment with me and my mom. No drama. Just happiness. Less is more. 🤍

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

I’m always interested when people say daily rosary-praying has made a difference for them. I do it (getting close to a year and a half now) but haven’t noticed anything different. What changes for you, and what does it mean if nothing changes?

Lizzie Reezay (LizziesAnswers)

@LizzieReezay

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Going into Week 4 of praying the rosary everyday!! I’ve been vlogging every night & am SO excited to release the full video to share how much I’ve grown and everything God has taught me 🙏💛

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

@phosphexdealer Latin hymns sung by a decent choir with an organ can move hearts. A beautiful faith produces beautiful liturgy. Have you looked closely at any of these hymns recently? Also, mocking a child is beyond normal cringe-posting.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

Instagram-filtered photo of my outfit (so my face is visible, because the lighting wasn’t great). 💛

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

I am immunocompromised. I almost died in 2017 from complications thereof. I *wanted* to die then. I was disappointed to wake up on earth post-surgery. Why? Because I had no church and wasn’t receiving communion. Life wasn’t worth living without it.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

@seanfeucht @HarperCollins Kind of a badge of honor at this point! ✝️

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

11 months

2015: Mennonite church attender 2016: Mennonite official member 2017: Church broke up/church-homeless/Easter Vigil observer/pilgrimage to Rome to connect with something (St. Cecilia 🔥) 2018: trying (and failing) to *not* be Catholic 2019-present: Catholic (officially)

Anti-War Christian

@NoWarChristian

11 months

2015: Presbyterian 2016: Presbyterian 2017: Presbyterian 2018: Presbyterian 2019: Presbyterian 2020: Presbyterian 2021: Presbyterian 2022: Presbyterian 2023: Presbyterian

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

Is this something all/most priests could do?

Fr. Cassidy Stinson

@TheHappyPriest

5 years

@20SidedK So far I have offered Confession before every Mass I’ve celebrated. People are showing up.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

Jesus really did rise from the dead. This really does change *everything* for those who believe it. Yes.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

Happy liturgical new year! Our Advent season has begun. 💜 And now my throat is malfunctioning so I can’t sing or talk without pain. I have never had this problem in my life before. Pray for me!

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

Also, I see the usual online dumpster-fires are burning away. Maranatha.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

2 years

My friend Taryn’s love for the Lord is contagious. Two bishops and more than 800 faithful walked five miles in the greatest Eucharistic procession I’ve ever been in, thanks to her. 🤍 (Photos by Jennifer Willems of @TheCatholicPost — see more: )

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

3 years

Two Latin Masses, one Ordinary Form Mass, and one Byzantine Liturgy (repping Team Red in the green zone 😄) in the space of ~26 hours. I feel invincible. 🕊🔥🙌🏻 #Pentecost

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

Just listened to a sister in an interview say, “I’m a little bit of an older vocation; I entered at 31.” 😖 “Old” is a relative term. So many religious communities just don’t want you if you’re in your 30s/40s. 😞 I’ll be 32 next year and relatively young!

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

Need prayers this financial aid application goes through extremely quickly because I only have one dose of medication left for next week and now can’t get more because I somehow missed my renewal warning in the mail. 🤦🏼‍♀️😖🙏🏻

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

If someone posted a picture of my parish to dunk on its architecture, I’d be very hurt. So how about we stop doing this? How worthwhile are “superior” aesthetic opinions if you use them to put others down? It’s an ugly thing to do.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

5 years

I joined my last church on Easter 2016. By a few weeks before Easter 2017, we weren't meeting any more. We dissolved into oblivion. When I became Catholic last Easter, I said I'd never have to go through that again. I'm in the darkest place I've been in a long time.

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

Come, Holy Spirit. Fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. 🕊🔥❤️

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Rachel Cecilia

@redeemedrachel

4 years

Holy God, holy mighty one, holy immortal one, have mercy on us. Holy God, holy mighty one, holy immortal one, have mercy on us. Holy God, holy mighty one, holy immortal one, have mercy on us.

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