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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Easter season | Family Activities | Holy Week | Triduum
Do you attend the Triduum liturgies with your family? We've gathered up some tips and encouragement from past years to help you and your children get the most out of these holy days. Triduum Memories "Let us stand." ... "Let us kneel." I have vivid memories of the first time I attended a Good Friday liturgy. It was held during the day, so Dad was probably working, and we kids attended with Mom and two of our great-aunts. To top it off, we were attending at our great-aunts' parish, not ours, so it was an unfamiliar church. Between the completely different ritual of the Good Friday liturgy as opposed to a regular Sunday Mass and the new surroundings and music, I remember being very confused. I certainly didn't understand the custom of venerating the cross.
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Catholic Momcast | Catholic books | Lenten season
Author Samantha Stephens discusses her new book, The Bellbind Letters (based on C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters), written to address the challenges and temptations Catholic mothers face.
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catholic mom | grace | online book club
Catholic Mom is thrilled to announce that our first Book Club of 2026 will feature Catholic Mom founder Lisa M. Hendey's book, The Grace of Yes: Eight Virtues for Generous Living. Generous living isn’t just about putting money in the collection basket during Mass or always being the one who steps up to help out. According to bestselling Catholic author, speaker, blogger, and creator of CatholicMom.com Lisa M. Hendey, generous living is about consistently answering God’s call to act through mission and loving service to others. In The Grace of Yes, Hendey shares eight spiritual virtues that have allowed her — and will help you — live generously and joyously say yes to God. (Ave Maria Press)
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Catholic Motherhood | Growing with the Saints | Saint Books | catholic mom
Catholic Mom announces their Fall 2025 Book Club selection: Real Moms of Real Saints by Colleen Pressprich! Learn more about joining this unique online book club... Our Fall 2025 Book Club selection is dear to our hearts! In Real Moms of Real Saints, Colleen Pressprich gets real about every mom's need for a tribe: a community of other women whose bonds of trust run deeper than simple friendship. We need that tribe here on earth, but sometimes we forget about our heavenly tribe! We can draw on the loving motherly examples of women who were moms of saints (and saints-to-be) as diverse as Saint John Bosco, Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, and Blessed Stanley Rother, among others. In her endorsement of this book, Catholic Mom Book Club host Allison Gingras notes, Colleen astutely observes that a Catholic parent’s ultimate goal is guiding their children to heaven. These remarkable mothers provide tangible evidence that this noble aspiration is indeed attainable. Their stories inspire hope, demonstrating that through God’s grace, ordinary individuals can raise children of extraordinary virtue.
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Marian devotion | catholic mom | online book club
CatholicMom.com announces the Book Club selection for May 2025: Real Life with Mary by Kelsey Gillespy. We're excited to announce that our May 2025 Book Club selection is a book honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary! Kelsey Gillespy, in her new book, Real Life with Mary: Growing in Virtue to Magnify the Lord, encourages moms to grow in friendship with Mary and learn from her how to walk the daily path to holiness.
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Book Club | Catholic Reads | Holy lives of inspiration | catholic mom
We're excited to announce our March 2025 Book Club selection: Catholic Mom media editor Maria Morera Johnson's A Beautiful Second Act: Saints and Soul Sisters who Taught Me to Be a Badass Age with Grace, published by Ave Maria Press. What's the Book About? In A Beautiful Second Act, bestselling author Maria Morera Johnson explores the adventure of life’s second half, drawing inspiration from twenty saints and “soul sisters” who faced these challenges with courage.
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