Pat Gohn

The F.U.N. Quotient… music to write by…

Years after this album came out… I still love tapping my keypad to this invigorating music. Thanks guys! Buy The Goat Rodeo Sessions here.

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My contribution to Word by Word – Slowing down with the Hail Mary

I’m a contributor to the new book, Word by Word: Slowing down with the Hail Mary, edited by Sarah Reinhard.  Today, I’m over at CatholicMom.com talking with Sarah about my contribution to the book. I loved what author Amy Welborn had to said about this book: “Reading Word by Word is like participating in a warm, honest, faith-sharing session among…

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This makes me think… of the church suffering

“Holy Church, our good Mother, after having exalted with fitting praise all her children who now rejoice in heaven, strives also to help all those who still suffer in purgatory, and to this end intercedes with all her power before Christ, her Lord and Spouse, in order that as speedily as possible they may join…

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Among Women 196: Finding God’s Peace

In this new episode, I happily welcome author Heidi Bratton to Among Women. Together, we discuss her new book, Finding God’s Peace in Everyday Challenges. Heidi is an author I’ve long admired and I think you’ll be blessed by hearing this conversation. Also in this show, I’m reviewing what we mean when say, “rest in…

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This makes me think… Nothing makes sense unless God wants us in heaven to share his joy.

God created us only so that we could share in His joy. It is were not true God created us so that we could share eternally in His Life, existence would have absolutely no meaning; the world would be absurd. It is only in faith in the intentions of God’s love that the world finds…

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Dear St John Paul II… a thanksgiving for your holy influence in my life

Dear St John Paul II, What a blessing to go to Mass this morning on your feast day! Your life had such a big impact on mine; your holy influence has fueled some of my best prayer practices and my most earnest studies. Long before you instituted World Youth Days, you struck a chord with…

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Among Women 195: Praying With Your Children

Among Women 195 is all about praying with your children. In this new Among Women podcast, my guest, Grace Mazza Urbanski, and I met while we were both attending the World Meeting of Families last month. Grace’s ministry in the Apostleship of Prayer led to her new book, Pray With Me: Seven Simple Ways to Pray with…

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The blog tour buzzing about Lisa Mladinich’s “True Radiance” is underway! Here’s where it will be!

The TRUE RADIANCE BLOG TOUR starts today and many of the bloggers will be giving away a copy of Lisa Mladinich’s book! I’ll be interviewing Lisa for Among Women soon, and we’ll be doing our own giveaway at that time in a couple weeks. In the meantime, you could win a book at one of these fine blogs….or you…

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This Makes Me Think… about what being sold-out for God really looks like — even martyrdom becomes a gift

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way. I plead with you: show me no untimely kindness. Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God. I am God’s…

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