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Please pray for me and my fiance. Though the timing is not what we wanted it to be, and though we wish we had waited until marriage for intimacies, we are looking forward to becoming parents around December 12, 2010. Please pray for our relationship to stay beautiful and healthy, for a blessed wedding day on June 18, 2010, and for the healthy birth of our child in the Christmas holiday. Please pray for us to have courage when we tell our families about the pregnancy (mine are likely not going to be supportive due to the timing) and please pray for our families to adjust and grow joyful at the impending arrival of their grandchild/niece/nephew.

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Permalink Reply by Carol on April 13, 2010 at 5:31am

I will pray for you, your fiance, your baby and your entire family today! At the risk of being too intrusive here, I want to encourage you both go to confession and focus your attentions on keeping your relationship pure until your wedding. You can do a lot in these last weeks before the wedding to set yourselves up for a healthy marriage!

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Permalink Reply by kamiller on April 13, 2010 at 11:34am

No worries about being intrusive. I appreciate the prayers and encouragement to go to confession. He and I likely will over the next week or so go to confession. We're discussing with our priest how to proceed with the wedding and how best to conduct ourselves for the betterment of our faith, and for our baby. We're finding the best middle ground to be for me to live with my in-laws so I can be closer to my fiance (we live far apart), and so he can be part of the pregnancy during doctor's visits without us living together.
Again, thank you for the prayers and encouragement!

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Permalink Reply by Patricia on April 14, 2010 at 10:30am

Carol gives excellent advice on being in a state of grace as you prepare for the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. Also, your baby's expected due date is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe -- seek her intercession for you, for your child, & for your marriage. God bless you--

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Permalink Reply by Maria D on April 13, 2010 at 1:40pm

I was you 20 years ago. We were 24 and engaged. It was the hardest thing ever to tell our families but after the disappointment they mobilized and helped us out beyond belief! They loved us and their impending grandchild from the beginning. We are blessed enough to be able to look back and laugh at the tiny, one bedroom, street level apt. we had...that we got flooded out of, (with two children at this point!), a week before my husband lost his bid at his PhD because of lab funding. I will tell you in no uncertain terms that marriage can be beautiful and so tough all at the same time and that the only way to live is with God in your marriage. If you truthfully put Him at the center, He will work with you and sustain you..."for better or worse" as the saying goes! Our son will be 20 this Oct. He is a sophomore in college, in the honors program and was just given an internship in his field of study at the school. You can do this! You will pray your way through raising this child and your families will love him and you so very much! Many prayers from someone who has walked the road!

Ps. yep...definitely get to confession. others may never understand His forgiveness but you will always know that in Our Lord's eyes you have been forgiven and that you are His child!

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Permalink Reply by Kerry on April 14, 2010 at 2:55pm

God bless you and your fiance. Thank you for continuing this pregnancy. I know on this blog, it's unlikely, but abortion is out there. Before you tell anyone, family, friends - pray to Our Blessed Mother. She'll give you the right words and strength. My daughter told me summer, 2002 she was pregnant. I told her "a baby is a miracle and a blessiing from God" ... and we went from there. The Blessed Mother had her hand in that reply. That miracle is now 7 yrs old and is the love of my life. Please enjoy this pregnancy, it's a wonderful thing. No apologies or excuses needed. I'll pray to St Gerard for you. Hugs to you and your fiance.