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Schedule for Ave Maria Press Book Signings at #WMF2015. Meet me & others at Booth 742!
Awesome book resources from many of Ave Maria Press’ authors can be found at booth #742 at the World Meeting of Families! Hope to see you this Wednesday at 2pm! Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015 4 p.m.–Live broadcast with Greg and Lisa Popcak Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015 9:45 a.m–live broadcast with Grace Urbanski 10 a.m.–Grace Urbanski…
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It’s like I’m going to the Catholic Super Bowl. #PopeIsHope #goodiswinning #PopeinPhilly
I feel like I’m going to the Catholic Super Bowl! And we’re all rooting for the same team! It seems to me that the World Meeting of Families (WMF) has morphed into the World Meeting with Francis, and I could not be happier. So many details, so many people coming to see him. I’ll be part of…
Read MoreThe F.U.N. Quotient… man with pink tutu cheers up his ailing wife
As a cancer survivor, this was very poignant for me.
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My thanks to Terry Polakovic…
Those of you familiar with Among Women, or my book, Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious: Celebrating the Gift of Catholic Womanhood, may recognize Terry Polakovic’s name. Terry was one of the founders for Endow, a wonderful ministry to women that specializes in educating on the nature and dignity of women. She later became its President and one of the…
Read MoreSplinter from the Cross – this little poem never ceases to inspire me
Splinter from the Cross Little headaches, little heartaches Little griefs of every day. Little trials and vexations, How they throng around our way! One great cross, immense and heavy, so it seems to our weak will, Might be borne with resignation, But these many small ones kill. Yet all life is formed of small things,…
Read MoreThis makes me think… Jesus is the friend who always has the time…
“There is always a way open to each of the faithful: the way of prayer. Whoever sincerely believes the words “Ask and you shall receive” is given consolation and courage to persevere in every need. Even if it is not the immediate help which, to some extent, the person conceives of and desires, help does…
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Remembering 9/11: a tribute to Yolanda, a tour of the Memorial in NYC, and a call to service
Many of us remember where we were 14 years ago today. I’ve written about it before here, and here, and here and here and elsewhere. Today, among the others my extended family knows who died that day, I’d like to focus on one person that we lost. My mom’s friend, Yolanda Dowling, as my mother tells it,…
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Among Women “Espresso Shot” debuts today. Our topic: Perseverance
I hope you will enjoy this new, shorter, version of Among Women. Listen here! The topic is perseverance and it’s a reflection on Psalm 103. Listen to the podcast. ::: Faithful Among Women listeners will know that I recently announced on episode 191 that I’m attempting to offer fresh audio three times a month… that…
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