After giving birth, a woman's internal wounds take six months to heal, 12 months for physical recovery, two years for hormonal balance, and up to five years to rediscover her identity. Relationships frequently fail during this time due to a lack of understanding. Be kind and patient with new mothers; they are facing more challenges than it appears.
Our Lady’s prayers are so powerful!
e.l.f Cosmetics co-founder Deacon Scott Borba will be ordained a priest on May 23, 2026, in the Diocese of Fresno, California.
Deacon Borba is a former esthetician, actor, model, author, and singer who gave up his multimillion-dollar career to follow a call to the priesthood. He spent over 20 years working in the health and beauty industry and donated all of his wealth to charity after answering a lifelong call to the priesthood at the age of 42.
According to Angelus News, Borba said God called him to the priesthood at the age of 10, but he “accepted late.”
He also told his conversion story to https://t.co/zOQfCc8Yzv in a 2019 interview, explaining that “God has blessed me with everything under the sun.”
Borba said he asked God to allow him to fulfill multiple dreams, to which he felt the Lord say “yes.”
“He not only blessed me with money and awareness, and just every business I had, he allowed me to have success with it,” Borba said. “Then I decided, you know, what is wrong with me? I was vapid. I had a perverse life.
“I went to LA, I got sucked into the Hollywood lifestyle,” he continued. “It was almost to a point where I was trying to sell my soul.”
“I was living for myself. I was idolizing myself,” he explained. “I was idolizing everything else out there that was luxury. I was a poster boy for luxury.”
Borbra said his family prayed for his conversion for many years, and people approached him about entering the priesthood “a thousand times.”
According to Angelus News, he recalled a particular moment his mother mentioned it to him at Mass when he was in the third grade.
"At Mass, she asked me to look up at the altar, and if I wanted to be the man in the robes," Borba said. "Whoever the priest was, his robes at that moment were shimmering like glitter. … And I knew God was placing on my heart to become a priest."
He eventually realized his worldly life is “not where we’re supposed to be. We’re supposed to be living for Heaven.”
“Not only did I accept the call [to the priesthood], but everything that God gave me– all my money all of my everything I had, including the current company I have– I have given it all away.”
He especially credits the Blessed Mother’s prayers for helping him answer this call.
"I know that our Blessed Mother has brought me into this vocation because of her love for me and for her Son," he said in the Angelus News story. "I have never been happier. I have never been more full of joy.”
Let us pray for Deacon Scott Borba and all those entering the priesthood!
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Scott-Vincent Borba, co-founder of the multi-billion dollar cosmetics brand e.l.f., donated his entire fortune to charity and will be ordained a Catholic priest this month.
"I have never been happier. I have never been more full of joy. With everything the world can give me, I would give it back a million times over to be united to Jesus."
Most Catholics know Mary stood at the Cross.
But the CCC# 964 says something stunning:
Mary “lovingly consented" to the sacrifice of her Son.
That is not sentimental Marian devotion.
That is supernatural holiness.
At Nazareth, Mary said yes to the Incarnation.
At Calvary, Mary’s yes became a sword through the soul.
She did not run.
She did not rage.
She stood.
And in faith, she consented.
This is why Catholics love Mary.
Not because she replaces Jesus.
Because she teaches us how to follow Him when the Cross costs everything.
Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.
God’s heart is torn apart by wars, violence, injustice and lies. But our Father’s heart is not with the wicked, the arrogant, or the proud. God’s heart is with the little ones and the humble, and with them He builds up His Kingdom of love and peace day by day. Wherever there is love and service, God is there. #ApostolicJourney #Algeria
My super strong parenting opinion is that while the kids are awake, you come last.
No spending all of Saturday golfing. That’s family time. 6 am tee time only, maybe.
Wanna go to the gym? Go after the kids go to bed, or wake up at 5.
In a few short years, they’ll be out of the house and you’ll have all the time in the world for your own stuff. It’s okay to come last for a while.