Pictured: My mom on her birthday in June. Photo credit: my sis-in-law Maria. //  Me & mom at the Mission. // Mom and dad with their grandchildren two years ago. There have been three more added since then! Photo credit: Felicity Photography.

Dear Family and Friends,

Thank you for all your prayers, love, and support, particularly during the final days of my mom’s life. You have been with me on this journey through social media from the moment I found out that she had cancer, to the day I kissed her goodbye for the last time.  Brian thinks I’m a little crazy for sharing such a vulnerable part of my life with “strangers” but he doesn’t understand that we’re more than strangers. We’ve become like a little Catholic online community loving and supporting one another through the good and the tragic.

So thank you for being there for me, for my mom and my family. My mom keenly felt your prayers and she offered up her suffering for each of you that were praying for her. And now that she is no longer bound to the constrains of this earthy life, I know she has doubled down on her prayers and is still interceding for us, because that’s just the kind of person mom was.

Arrangements have been made for Mom’s funeral and burial. It will take place a week from today on Friday, January 18, 2019. Many of you have sent me messages asking about sending flowers or how you can help the family. I talked to my siblings and we decided that in lieu of flowers, we’d set up the Dolores Cardenas Funeral Fund for my dad to help him pay for my mom’s funeral and her medical expenses, which comes to roughly $15,000. (Please do not feel obligated to give. This is only for those who’ve asked – https://paypal.me/revolutionoflove.)

Foremost, my mom made me promise that I’d ask people to pray for her after she passed, that her soul would be happy and at peace with Jesus. In the end she was not afraid to die. She was ready to go home to her Savior. I pray she is happy with Him now. <3

Thanks again and love to you.

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