Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

Suzanne Bilodeau

Catholic mom, Catholic women, and ALL friends seeking God- WELCOME! This is a podcast designed to provide my fellow sisters in Christ with encouragement and support for the beautiful and difficult journey of living out our vocations. Truth is that motherhood, marriage, and living out our feminine genius are incredibly hard endeavors. Yet, through the perseverance of pursuing all that is good, true, and beautiful we are tenderly being transformed into vessels of God's love, one tiny dish, meeting, or dirty diaper at a time.
So, join me, Suzanne - homeschooling momma of 6, every week as we journey together with a Mary & Martha mission towards "stilling our souls WHILE moving our world." Together, let's sit at the feet of Christ like Mary, while moving with the gusto and strength of Martha! Join me and my friends as we laugh, cry, dive deep, and explore with one another as navigate wifehood, motherhood, and sisterhood with our eyes on Christ.

Let us encourage you in your mighty and holy work of motherhood and wifehood!

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64. A Million Little Yeses

Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

04/26/22 • 20 min

God gives us the opportunity to give him our fiat hundreds of times each day. Mary gave us the most perfect example of a humble, tender, and trusting fiat when she accepted God’s will for her life when The Annunciation took place. Yet, this was not Mary’s only “Yes” that she presented to our Lord. No, in fact Mary ‘s whole life was one long fiat where she lived out a perfect acceptance of and cooperation with God’s plans.
We too have the opportunity to present our Lord with our fiats on a daily basis and parenthood simply provides us with an even greater exponential level of opportunities to give our yes, and to cooperate with gods plans for our lives.
Hope you all have a blessed week!!!

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She Loved: Resting in the Beauty of Motherhood (New Motherhood Book with Ascension- Be encouraged and uplifted: www.ascensionpress.com/sheloved)

I am convinced that God is on mission to restore and revive the beautiful vocation of motherhood right here and right now! Let's build up this community of catholic moms who are answering the call to this mighty work!

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62. Sorrowful Mysteries: Crucifixion of Christ - Grace in Grief with Stephanie Weinert

Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

04/12/22 • 39 min

This week we wrap our Lenten series on the Sorrowful Mysteries, with the Crucifixion of Christ. As I was praying on this mystery, I kept reflecting on the pure love and goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ, as he laid down his life for us on the Cross. I was delighted to sit down and chat with my friend Stephanie Weinert about this gift of self-love as well as the grace in grief that our Lord so desires to pour out upon us.
Stephanie shines a light on the truth that we as mothers, whether spiritual or biological, will all experience suffering. Yet, it is through an openness to the goodness of God, amidst the crushing pain, that we may experience the "small trickle" of His joy beneath the grief and sorrow.
This was such a treasure of a conversation for me and I hope it will delight all of your hearts as much as it did mine!
Blessings friends and have a wonderful week!
Please check out all the beautiful things Stephanie has been working on for all of our momma hearts below!
Mother and Home
http://www.motherandhome.co
Stephanie's Instagram account
https://www.instagram.com/stephanieweinert/

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She Loved: Resting in the Beauty of Motherhood (New Motherhood Book with Ascension- Be encouraged and uplifted: www.ascensionpress.com/sheloved)

50. Newsflash: You are NOT responsible for your child's happiness

Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

01/25/22 • 25 min

This week’s episode was something my own momma heart needed so desperately to hear. After a tear-filled cry to momma Mary, I was reminded that “Newsflash: You are not responsible for your children’s happiness.”
We mommas love our children so profoundly and deeply, that we often carry around a heavy chain of responsibility that was never meant for our shoulders. Instead, our prime duty to our children, is not to ensure their happiness, but rather to simply love them. It isn’t always easy to express our love through word and action amidst the stressors of every day life, yet when we release the weight of their future happiness from our burdened shoulders, we become freer to be stewards of the most perfect love - God’s love itself.
So mommas take this week to relax your weary heart, free yourself from your fears, and simply love!
Hope you all have a blessed week!

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She Loved: Resting in the Beauty of Motherhood (New Motherhood Book with Ascension- Be encouraged and uplifted: www.ascensionpress.com/sheloved)

44. Disciple: Powerful 'D' Word

Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

11/02/21 • 31 min

As we wrap up our four 'D' word series we wanted to end with another positive word. What better way to end than with our ultimate calling, being a disciple of Christ.
To be a true disciple of Christ means we follow and imitate His ways and no one else. What we do and say is a reflection of the one that we follow. That is why we have to be so careful about who or what we follow. The world around us draws us into comfort and ease and often times we are tempted to seek out things that make us temporarily happy but Christ has another way.
To be His disciple we must give up everything and follow after Him and to be able to recognize we don't deserve anything from Him because He is the one that has given us everything. That we have hope in what is to come so we need not despair in the present moment even when the darkness is trying to weigh us down. Therefore, no matter what comes our way we can delight in being followers of Christ because even with the cross we know that following Him leads to our victory.
SPECIAL THANKS:

Mike Loin @ MiloElevation Studios: Content Editor and Sound Producer
Paul Bilodeau @ Apical: Content Advisor
Olivia Breen: Photographer, Marketing, and PR

SHOW NOTES:

Bishop Barron: The Calling of the Disciples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC7xNZ5j-2o

Father Mike Schmitz: 4 Habits of Discipleship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fis29rZ2n_4

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She Loved: Resting in the Beauty of Motherhood (New Motherhood Book with Ascension- Be encouraged and uplifted: www.ascensionpress.com/sheloved)

23. Raising Children in the Faith- Part 1

Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

05/25/21 • 34 min

There is no better way to end our season than with a series on raising our children in the faith. It's such an important topic, and something we are both so passionate about, that we knew we needed a few episodes to cover it. We end our season with an AMAZING interview that you won't want to miss!
Raising children is hard and we crumble, fail, and cry a lot. But if we can remember that God is a God of love and mercy and have that same heart towards our children than we can, by our example, lead them closer to Christ. "We must first create a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule." (CCC 2223) God knows we will not be perfect parents but He calls us to pass on the faith to our children and no one can do it more effectively than us! That is truly a difficult task but He equips us with everything we will need."The role of parents in education is of such importance that it is almost impossible to produce an adequate substitute." (CCC 2221)
“Your life has a purpose and you have a mission in Jesus... Your mission field begins in your home. To help the people living under your roof realize that their lives are not meaningless, that their lives are bigger than they seem. That there is a God who loves them. Your mission is to them first of all...and then to everyone else you come in contact with. But they are first. Miss that, and you is the very reason why you even exist!”
-Father Mike Schmitz
SPECIAL THANKS:

Mike Loin @ MiloElevation Studios: Content Editor and Sound Producer
Paul Bilodeau @ Apical: Content Advisor
Olivia Breen: Photographer, Marketing, and PR

SHOW NOTES:

Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart by Jacques Philippe (section 7 Part 1)
CCC 2221-2228
Bishop Barron: Catholicism and Beauty
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUBNTNiqn60

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She Loved: Resting in the Beauty of Motherhood (New Motherhood Book with Ascension- Be encouraged and uplifted: www.ascensionpress.com/sheloved)

78. Abandonment to Jesus

Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

07/26/22 • 42 min

Today we continue with conference 4, or chapter 4, of I Believe in Love on Abandonment in Jesus.
Webster Dictionary defines abandonment as “an unrestraint, or being uninhibited.” This is precisely how Jesus desires that we come to him; with a radical, unrestrained, and uninhibited reckless trust and love. But practically speaking what does this look like?
Father Jean says “Practically speaking, it consists of seeing the will of God in all that creatures and events present to you” and as St. Francis de Sales says it is to ‘ask nothing and refuse nothing’
Discussion Questions:
1. “If he destroys my little plans, I kiss His adorable hand. It is because He wants to realize His own, which are more beautiful anyway than those which I could have made myself.” Have you ever thought of God‘s plan for you as “beautiful”?
2. God refused the prayer of St. Monica for her son St. Augustine, in order to answer her greater prayer (see pages 101-102). Have you seen similar circumstances in your life (failures or victories)? Has this increased your trust and abandonment in God?
3. “It is said that the Devil makes the gravity of the sin appear to be less during the temptation and greater after the fall.” How do you think knowing this truth can help you avoid sin?

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She Loved: Resting in the Beauty of Motherhood (New Motherhood Book with Ascension- Be encouraged and uplifted: www.ascensionpress.com/sheloved)

81. The Apostolate

Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

08/16/22 • 37 min

"The charity of charities is the Apostolate"
As we continue our book study on I Believe in Love, we explore what it means to live the life of an apostle. Father Jean says, "To be an apostle is to give Jesus to souls and souls to Jesus by making Him known in order to make Him loved, by filling yourself with Him in order to give Him, according to the beautiful definition of Father Mateo, 'An apostle is a chalice full of Jesus which overflows onto souls.'
I'm not sure about you friends, but my heart greatly desires to be this chalice full of Christ himself, which overflows onto others.
Discussion Questions:
1. "You know that the prayer of prayers is the Mass; perfect adoration, perfect expiation, perfect thanksgiving, it is also perfect supplication of the immolated Jesus; it is the dearest treasure of the apostolate." How is the Mass a "treasure" for you? How can attending Mass with a surrendered disposition, no matter how chaotic this busy season of life is, be a source of great treasure for those with littles?
2."He Himself needs others, because He wishes to use them as His instruments...So many diverse fields of activity are open today to those who want to be apostles." How are you currently being used as an instrument for Christ? Do you desire to be used more? In what way?
3. How can you use prayer and suffering to be an apostle for the Church?

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She Loved: Resting in the Beauty of Motherhood (New Motherhood Book with Ascension- Be encouraged and uplifted: www.ascensionpress.com/sheloved)

83. The Eucharist

Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

08/30/22 • 33 min

“Jesus and all the treasures of heaven are ours on the altar.” This week Sara joins me once again to discuss conference number 9 of I Believe in Love, on the Eucharist.
Father Jean shares the beauty and glorious gift of Jesus in the Eucharist . “The Mass is the divine act around which the lodge of the Church gravitates and of which she is the radiance; the center from which she receives all impulses and toward which she is continually directed; the living source from which she proceeds and the ocean to which she returns”
And after receiving Jesus in the Eucharist at each and every Mass, we get go out into the world glorifying God as our own personal Eucharistic adoration chapels.
Discussion Questions:
1. “At the moment of receiving Communion, say to Jesus, ‘Jesus, I come to You because I am weak, because I am miserable, because I am a sinner. I come to You because I have so much need of You.” Do you feel a great need to receive Communion?
2. The Mass is so important, yet most of us attend only once a week. What keeps us from making the Mass a higher priority?
3. Being part of the royal priesthood means that we are to bring holiness to every aspect of our life and every activity in our day. In what ways do you bring holiness into your daily life? In what other ways can we do this?

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She Loved: Resting in the Beauty of Motherhood (New Motherhood Book with Ascension- Be encouraged and uplifted: www.ascensionpress.com/sheloved)

92. Called to Sainthood with Melissa Dee (Saints Alive Podcast)

Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

11/01/22 • 36 min

This week I am so delighted to sit down with my new friend Melissa Dee to discuss the universal call to holiness, the truth that we have ALL been called to sainthood.
It can often feel overwhelming or intimidating when we realize that we too, sinful and all, have been called to glorify God through our lives. And yet, most of our saint-making is often done in the hidden places.
As Saint Faustina once said, "Jesus loves hidden souls. A hidden flower is the most fragrant. I must strive to make the interior of my soul a resting place for the Heart of Jesus."
Melissa is the primary scriptwriter and producer for the new Saints Alive Podcast, a radio theater podcast for kids. But don't be fooled my friends, their podcast will not only delight your children but will also bless your own heart. Melissa, her husband Alex, and their team member Tanner have a wonderful way of telling heroic stories of the lives of the saints. Storytelling is a beautiful way to infuse our children with truth and beauty, just as the ultimate storyteller - Christ himself - has always done!
Find out more about Saints Alive here:
https://www.saintsalivepodcast.com/

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She Loved: Resting in the Beauty of Motherhood (New Motherhood Book with Ascension- Be encouraged and uplifted: www.ascensionpress.com/sheloved)

Summer Week Off- small FAVOR!

Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

07/13/21 • 1 min

We are so thankful to all of our listeners and wanted to let you know we aren't done for the summer, we are just taking a week off. We are praying for each of you and your intentions.
We would love it if you would share our podcast with your family and friends! And be sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on each weeks episode. If you have enjoyed our podcast we ask that you consider leaving us a review.
May God bless you!
Suzanne and Julie

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