Jolly Hormillosa

I’m Jolly! It’s my real name. My husband and I have six living babies ranging from seven months to twenty-three years and two in heaven cheering us on. I have watered the holy ground of motherhood with tears and the joy that has grown in my soul is so real that I can be caught with my head back and my always-slightly-unkempt long hair, laughing the loudest in the room. Catholic, open-to-life motherhood is my high adventure in the spiritual life, a poignant path of constant cross-to-resurrection conversion wooing me to surrender, receive, and cast off the bondage of false identity to uncover my most sacred desire to give my life as a sacrificial gift –to revel in the joy of living radically like Christ. This is how I am becoming Jolly.