This week on Among Women we honor the first anniversary of the election of Pope Francis. Listen to a special edition that I’m calling “What We Love About Pope Francis.” This episode feature comments from Among Women listeners and conversation with our special guest, Sr Anne Joan Flanagan, of the Daughters of St Paul, AKA the blogger at Nun…
Read MoreHumble people persevere in the life of prayer without presumption and without relying on themselves. They don’t consider anything their due, don’t consider themselves able to do anything by their own strength, aren’t surprised to find that they have difficulties, weaknesses, and constant falls, but put up with all these peacefully, without making much of…
Read MoreThe warm weather cannot arrive fast enough. But we can enjoy ice cream anytime! And why settle for some of a cone, when you can order the whole thing?
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You may remember my friends, Jonathan and Kristen Weiss? They are full-time missionaries supporting married couples, families, and single lay persons in mission work in five countries with Family Missions Company. Different than a missions outreach supported by the work of Catholic religious orders, this apostolate offers lay persons a temporary or permanent mission outreach…
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This year I was feeling a bit overwhelmed facing down the Lenten season. It felt like one more thing on my to-do list. But after praying about that I realized that some of the difficult things in the family (lots of illness and joblessness for many loved ones), and in the world (you name it,…
Read MoreThis week on Among Women, as the liturgical calendar brings us to the season of Lent, we talk about the centrality of having a relationship with Jesus. The Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, almsgiving are designed to draw our attention to growing in our faith in Christ. I’m delighted to welcome Allison Gingras, a speaker…
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Thanks to the blessed, beautiful, and bodacious, Johnnette Benkovic, the host of Women of Grace on EWTN, for a great week together of shows talking about the feminine genius and all it means for us as Catholic women…. knowing our dignity, gifts, and mission! Much of the conversation over the five days covers ideas from my…
Read MoreSo proud of these great women from the silver-medal winning US hockey team — some of them returning to home here in the Boston area. Watch the video of their comments after landing at Logan Airport in Boston, via WCVB-TV. Also here’s some top Olympic moments for Team USA’s Women in other sports at…
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It’s a honor to be a guest of Johnette Benkovic, host of Women of Grace on EWTN. Watch this series all this week at 11:00am Eastern on EWTN. You find archived on-demand shows here. Here’s an earlier post describing my visit to EWTN last fall.
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Here it’s coffee and conversation, and where the faith-sharing is often a friendly mix of catechesis and cannoli. It’s a place where we can catch up…
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