Pat Gohn

Catholic Resources online — we love ’em, we need ’em! Share this!

My good buddy, author and blogger, Sarah Reinhard, AKA the Snoring Scholar has a great reference piece up at OSV: “Untangling the Catholic Web”. Let me also share my Resources page at Among Women.  Make sure your local church bulletins have this information too — share it with your pastors, church leaders, as well as your…

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Catholic Photo Challenge # 2: Darkness and Light and a writer’s prayer

Last year, on a date with my husband, we lingered in an antiques shop, where I found this blast from my past. I snapped the photo with my iPhone4s. As a young child, I loved tapping out words on our family’s ribbon typewriter. Often our first loves as children translate somehow into our adult loves. I think…

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Go Deeper with God: 7 Among Women “Best of” Podcasts about Prayer

AW 77 A Special Edition on Prayer:  Among Women listeners open up about why prayer is important to them, and the role it plays in their lives. Listen! AW 143 Growing in Friendship with Jesus and His Queen: A conversation with the dynamic and fun-loving author/blogger/film producer Sr Helena Burns FSP as we break open her book, He…

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This makes me think… about deepening my trust in Jesus. (It’s more than a feeling.)

Take this to your next prayer time… imagining Jesus saying these words to you…   Become very quiet. Reach out your hand so that I might enfold it in both of mine. Do you feel the love and tender care transfer itself through this contact? Now, as if you were blind, turn with me to…

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Celebrate World Communications Day ! Get Catholic TV! Discover other media resources!

 “The Church needs to be concerned for, and present in, the world of communication, in order to dialogue with people today and to help them encounter Christ.” – Pope Francis – World Communications Day message, 2014 If evangelization is part of church’s identity, then spreading the message of the gospel is what we need to…

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Among Women 180: Working Women, Leadership, and the Devotional Life

On this episode of Among Women I welcome back Mary Wallace, PhD, from Louisiana State University, a Catholic blogger at Catholic Working Mom. Together we discuss the feminine genius, yet in particular, the leadership strengths of women in the world. Listen as Mary makes suggestions for strengthening the devotional life in working women. In this…

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Saints and their love of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (Some quotes to keep!)

This post is created for my Among Women listeners, with whom I’ve discussed these quotes on the most recent podcast. However, all readers may enjoy it too. Since Among Women profiles the faith of women, only women saints listed below. These are saints whose bios I’ve profiled on previous episodes, linked below. “Go and find…

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A Veteran Saint in the Making? Fr Emil Kapaun’s cause for Canonization

I first learned of Fr Emil Kapaun when I gave a retreat to the women who were stationed or whose husbands were stationed at the US Army War College in Carlisle, PA.  I got a first class tour of the College’s Memorial chapel by Fr. Gregory D’Emma, a longtime Army Chaplain. He was the first…

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The F.U.N. Quotient… road warrior edition

Rules of the Road 1. Yield to pedestrians at a cross walk. And keep your temper and to be patient. (link has very short video) 2. Yield in stop and go traffic. 3. Find ways to keep calm in traffic.  

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