My mother was on fire for our Lord Jesus Christ. She taught us with her perseverance to surrender our will to him and always say “Jesus I trust in you” she was the glue for our family, where she would always gather us kids with our dad to sit down to say, the family, ROSARY-spiritual warfare was real and she knew it. I the youngest of three siblings believe those rosaries & prayers throughout her life even when I became an adult was the full reason of my conversion back to The Catholic faith six years ago, she saved my soul. God gave me many miracles in her last weeks that I did not know were her last weeks because she suddenly died of a heart attack I have had 30 Gregorian masses said for her through the Divine Mercy, Stockbridge, Massachusetts Shrine. I attend Daily Catholic mass for her soul. I will persevere in my faith for her as she did for me while I was here, lost on earth, may my beloved mother who I Love and miss dearly always rest in peace in the arms of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

My mother was on fire for Jesus Christ throughout my entire life, and I never appreciated it. One of the most amazing memories is when I was in high school. I was about 15 years old and as all highschoolers who are self-centered, and in their own head, she would look at us and stop us dead in our tracks before leaving Off to school and she would ask us if we died today, will we be ready to stand before our Lord? I must say this memory is one of the best because she taught us very well to be ready and stay in prayer and trust in the Lord and follow him and surrender our will to him.