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Adoption Should you, could you, and then what?

Adoption Should you, could you, and then what?

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"A revised edition of Adoption: choosing it, living it, loving it."
Advice worth ignoring-how to tune out the experts can make you a better parent

Advice worth ignoring-how to tune out the experts can make you a better parent

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In Advice Worth Ignoring, Dr. Ray identifies fifty of the most common child-related truisms and parenting myths that can often mislead and undercut parents, and explains how the virtues of prudence, temperance and fortitude can help any parent discern the best course of action for his or her own family. Parents are encouraged to ask themselves: Does this have merit for our family, with our morals? Does it make sense? Does it align with wisdom confirmed through generations?

Covering a range of ages and stages, from the early years ("It's a stage; it will pass") to the teenage years ("Don't make your child lie"), this book gives dedicated parents the tools they need to spot the hidden assumptions colored by pop psychology, and make parenting choices that are consistent with raising up good Catholic kids.

Parents who read Advice Worth Ignoring will feel empowered to judge the advice that's right for their own family, regardless of who doles it out. Contains a special section specifically for adoptive parents.

Angel in the Waters - Paper back

Angel in the Waters - Paper back

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In its mother's womb, a baby grows, explores the waters, and talks with the angel who is there. The gentle illustrations tell the story of that baby and angel, delighting young children because the journey from conception to birth is their story, too. Sophia Institute
Awakening a Life-Giving Heart

Awakening a Life-Giving Heart

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Live with a generous spirit! A book for all Catholic women who want to grow contemplatively, in order to pray effectively for their families and for the Church. The focus of the book is not academic but a spiritual encouragement to live out the life-giving capacity of the feminine genius.

Mary Gannon Kaufmann describes the life-giving nature of womanhood and seeks to guide women to live a deeper contemplative life of faith and prayer that can awaken holiness in themselves and others, in their families and the priests and deacons that they pray for.

Even though this call to effectively intercede for others is not new, today the call to spiritually uplift the Church and her clergy stands in new brilliance. Using Venerable Concepci n's work as well as the insights of other saintly women, Awakening a Life-Giving Heart helps women learn to negotiate the ups and downs of their lives as prayerful sacrifices for others.

Baby and Beyond: Overcoming Those Post-Childbirth Woes

Baby and Beyond: Overcoming Those Post-Childbirth Woes

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In these honest pages, Allison Auth shares real-life stories on every facet of postpartum life, shedding light on the physical, spiritual, and emotional components of recovery.
Be Bold in the Broken

Be Bold in the Broken

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Who am I? What is my purpose? Where do I belong?

These questions linger in every season of our lives, but, as Mary Lenaburg learned the hard way, answering them becomes possible only when we direct our hearts to the God who made us and loves us best of all. Following Lenaburg's example in Be Bold in the Broken will give you the courage and inspiration you need to accept who you are--the good, the bad, and the awkward--and become the woman God made you to be.

Lenaburg desperately wanted to be part of a girl tribe in middle school. She wanted to belong, to have friends--to be seen. So the unathletic, gangly sixth grader tried out for the cheerleading squad. She didn't have fancy clothes like the other girls and she noticed that everyone else had "a chest." So Lenaburg stuffed a pair of her brother's sweat socks into her bra. You can probably guess the rest: One sock fell out when she started a tumbling routine.

When she was still feeling humiliated after several weeks, her father gave her some life-changing advice: "How about next time you just be you, do your best, and let God figure out the rest."

Lenaburg--the author of Be Brave in the Scared--explores her journey to self-acceptance as she struggled to make sense of who she is and what she had to offer. Relatable anecdotes will make you laugh as Lenaburg answers the questions she is most often asked and shares how she finally learned to own

  • her gifts and limitations,
  • her dreams and failures,
  • her virtues and sins, and
  • how God is transforming her by grace.
  • With personal stories and faith-filled reflections, Lenaburg blazes the path to true identity and purpose in Christ.

    Blessings and Prayers for New Parents

    Blessings and Prayers for New Parents

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    It can be scary to hold your newborn--especially your first time! Yet God's grace and spirit are present. Blessing and Prayers for New Parents calls attention to these holy moments by offering reflections, prayers, Scripture, special suggestions for growing as a parent, and ways to remember how much you love your child as you grow together as a family.

    Enjoy the new life of your child as author Matthew Beck shares prayers and blessings as you anxiously await the wonder on up through God and toddlers and beyond--all through the eyes of a new parent and all wrapped up in God's care.

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    Book of Saints for Catholic Moms - 52 Companions

    Book of Saints for Catholic Moms - 52 Companions for Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul

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    Lisa M. Hendey, founder of the award-winning CatholicMom.com and bestselling author of The Handbook for Catholic Moms and The Grace of Yes shares her passion for the saints by introducing fifty-two holy companions as guides for the amazing vocation of Catholic motherhood.

    Guided by the example of the saints, Hendey eloquently links personal stories, scripture, prayer, and soul-strengthening exercises into a spiritually rich and deeply practical resource for Catholic women. This edition includes a new preface and cover and is updated with information about saints canonized since the first edition.

    Allow The Book of Saints for Catholic Moms to help you grow in your faith and enrich your heart, mind, body, and soul by spending each week of the year with Lisa M. Hendey and a different saint. This award-winning spiritual guidebook introduces you to popular saints such as Thérèse of Lisieux, Teresa of Calcutta, John Paul II, and Patrick, as well as lesser known but equally inspiring saints such as Gianna Beretta Molla and Damien of Molokai.

    Each week Hendey offers:

  • a thematic prayer intention;
  • biographical and devotional information about the saint;
  • lessons she learned from each saint;
  • daily scripture meditations;
  • prayers;
  • activities for moms and children; and
  • practical, spiritually rich steps that help moms incorporate the wisdom and exemplary faith of each figure into their own lives.
  • Brick by Brick Building a strong family that won't lose their faith in a secular culture

    Brick by Brick Building a strong family that won't lose their faith in a secular culture

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    Concerned parents will learn from these remarkable pages how they can raise their children to live the Faith dynamically.
    Call Me Blessed

    Call Me Blessed

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    Call Me Blessed is a 7 x 10 softbound, matte cover Scripture study journal that is thoughtfully written and beautifully designed. Every day of this four-week study provides Scripture to get you started and notes for further Bible reading. You will find a daily devotion, some thoughts to consider as you reflect, and a prayer prompt to dovetail with your reading. There are thoughtfully crafted, generous pages for writing and art journaling. Step by step, day by day, biblical reading and inspiring essays introduce you to twenty women of the Bible whose stories bring to life the dignity and vocation of women of God throughout the ages. Together with several contemporary women authors, consider the stories of these biblical women in the light of Gospel and see how their truths beckon you to also become a woman of God.
    Catholic Baby Name Book [More than 10,000 Names]

    Catholic Baby Name Book [More than 10,000 Names]

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    With more than 10,000 names of saints and biblical figures, this guide to Catholic baby names helps expectant parents find a beautiful and creative name for their child. Each entry includes the meaning of the name, language of origin, variations in form, a capsule biography, and relevant feast days and patron saint information.
    Catholic Family Book of Prayers, The( A Treasury of prayers and meditations for families to pray together)

    Catholic Family Book of Prayers, The( A Treasury of prayers and meditations for families to pray together)

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    Do you want to introduce your kids to the richness of the Christian prayer tradition? The best way to do that is to pray with them, and now there's a beautiful collection of Catholic prayers and meditations designed just for that purpose: The Catholic Family Book of Prayers: A Treasury of Prayers and Meditations for Families to Pray Together. It's packed with prayers, blessings, meditations, saintly wisdom, and artwork"€"all selected specifically for Catholic families to pray together.
    Catholic Mother's Companion to Pregnancy

    Catholic Mother's Companion to Pregnancy

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    Designed to help expectant mothers embrace pregnancy as an opportunity for spiritual growth, A Catholic Mother's Companion to Pregnancy prepares mothers for the trials and joys of pregnancy, childbirth, baptism, and, ultimately, motherhood.
    Catholic Parents' Survival Guide Straight Answers to Your Kids' Toughest Questions

    Catholic Parents' Survival Guide Straight Answers to Your Kids' Toughest Questions

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    A USER-FRIENDLY GUIDE TO SHARING THE FAITH WITH CHILDREN

    Raising a Catholic family is never easy, especially not when it comes to discussing our faith with our children. Despite trying our best, sometimes we all need help addressing issues of faith respectfully, honestly, and accurately.

    Written by Julianne Stanz, bestselling author, catechist, lay church leader, and mother of three, The Catholic Parents' Survival Guide is a practical manual for talking with children about how to navigate life through the lens of the Catholic faith.

    Featuring an accessible question-and-answer format, Julianne not only equips readers with tools to help explain Catholic beliefs, ethics, morality, and faith practices, but she also prepares us for how to deliver this information in a manner that will resonate with children. She addresses such questions as:

    Who is God?
    What is the Holy Spirit?
    What happens if you miss Mass?
    What happens after we die?
    Does God answer prayers?
    What will we do in heaven?
    Why do Catholics pray to Mary?
    Why can't women become priests?

    In addition, each chapter includes key takeaways, notes for reflection, recommended resources, and tips for putting these insights into practice. The Catholic Parents' Survival Guide provides reliable information about the Catholic faith and parent-tested methods for sharing it with children.

    Catholic Woman's Guide to Romance

    Catholic Woman's Guide to Romance

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    Calling all Catholic women! Has your longing for real romance never really been satisfied? Have you been let down by love or marriage? Are you tired of asking God for happily ever after? Hope is here. In this her latest in the series--all about romance!--noted author Rose Sweet reveals the truth behind flowers, love letters, and the deepest desires of the heart.

    The Catholic Woman's Guide series integrates classic Catholic theology (Theology of the Body and teachings on contemplative prayer) with Sweet's unique brand of story and humor and will help you to find and hold on to authentic happiness, love, and joy in every area of your life. In this second volume, The Catholic Women's Guide to Romance, Sweet takes you through the doorway of romance that leads deep into the "Interior Life." Topics include:

  • Expressing love in rites and rituals
  • Seeing romance in religion Lusting for love in ways that hurt us
  • Hearing the Bridegroom and saying "yes"
  • Understanding the meaning of Scripture
  • Unveiling the secrets hidden in the Mass
  • Sweet reveals the "Seven Stages of Romance" and points to the places we often get stuck or lost. Her most surprising secret of all will fill you with joy at the extravagant love God has for you!

    The Adventure awaits! Accompany Rose through the portal of romance to the Love that never fails!

    Children and Parents Wisdom and Guidance for Parents

    Children and Parents Wisdom and Guidance for Parents

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    Bishop Sheen addresses what parents confront in their relationships with their children as they grow into adulthood.
    Discovering Motherhood An Extraordinary Journey through Everyday Life

    Discovering Motherhood An Extraordinary Journey through Everyday Life

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    Discovering Motherhood is a warm, friendly, profound account of the mundane and the mystical in the life of a mother. Somehow, amid the dirty tube socks, the trail of Legos and the baby's mashed bananas, God is present. Annemarie Scobey takes us on a daunting journey that has no map. It is a high-energy trek with ups and downs and bumps in the road. The price of admission is three a.m. feedings, endless diapers changes and lost sleep. But the payoff comes in the profound relationships of mother and children, and in the love that gives life its luster. Scobey has recorded the journey with insight, humor and a sure sense of the Divine in the turmoil, troubles and triumphs of everyday life.
    Divine Mercy for Moms Sharing the Lessons of St. Faustina

    Divine Mercy for Moms Sharing the Lessons of St. Faustina

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    Originating in the early twentieth century, the Divine Mercy devotion of St. Faustina Kowalska is one of the most celebrated of all Catholic devotions. In this, their first book, Catholic bloggers and speakers Michele Faehnle and Emily Jaminet break open the history, practices, and prayers associated with the devotion, guiding busy moms to receive God's message of Divine Mercy and pass it on to others through their words, deeds, and prayers.

    In her famous Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul, St. Faustina Kowalska recorded a series of visions of Jesus where he revealed the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and promised that anything can be obtained with the prayer if it is compatible with his will. St. John Paul II formally established the Divine Mercy devotion and canonized Faustina in 2000. The Marians of the Immaculate Conception are dedicated to spreading the Divine Mercy devotion the foreword for this book was written by Fr. Michael E. Gaitley, MIC, author of Divine Mercy Explained and 33 Days to Morning Glory.

    In Divine Mercy for Moms, Michele Faehnle and Emily Jaminet of the Columbus Catholic Women's Conference--one of the largest annual Catholic women's conferences in the country--draw upon their own experiences to introduce you to St. Faustina and her five essential elements of the Divine Mercy message:

  • The image of the Merciful Jesus
  • The Feast of Divine Mercy
  • The Chaplet of Divine Mercy
  • The House of Mercy
  • Spreading the honor of Divine Mercy
  • With heartwarming stories and practical advice, this book reveals that mercy is not just a gift to be received in the confessional but a spiritual resource that strengthens those who extend themselves in word, deed, and prayer. Designed for personal or group study, Divine Mercy for Moms celebrates the infinite mercy of God and the role of Mary, the Mother of Mercy, in the lives of all believers.

    Divine Mercy for Moms was the winner of a 2017 Catholic Press Association Book Award: Family Life (Third Place).

    Don't Forget to Say Thank You

    Don't Forget to Say Thank You

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    Do you hear yourself saying the same things over and over to your kids?
    "Do you need help?"
    "Say thank you."
    "Wait a minute."

    In Don't Forget to Say Thank You: And Other Parenting Lessons That Brought Me Closer to God, Lindsay Schlegel reimagines the common phrases we repeat as parents and applies them to our relationship with God. In doing so, she demonstrates how reflecting on our vocation as mothers can inform and illuminate our role as a daughter of God, drawing us closer to him.

    What if we took the statements we repeat to our children and apply them to ourselves?

    In Don't Forget to Say Thank You, writer Lindsay Schlegel shares fifteen relatable phrases she frequently uses as a parent and how her faith and life changed when she envisioned God telling her these same things.

    When we start to hear the things we're telling our kids as wisdom from God, it's clear that the lessons we are trying to teach our kids are ones we also need to learn as children of the Most High.

    Asking her daughter, "Do you need help?" caused Schlegel to reflect on the importance of the Communion of Saints and reaching out for the assistance she needs. Telling her children, "Say you're sorry" reminded her of the necessity of Confession and seeking forgiveness. And pleading that a toddler "wait a minute" while she looked for her crackers forced Schlegel to consider how she needed to have both more patience and more trust that God would take care of her.

    Schlegel invites us to apply the same lessons she learned to our own lives as parents and as children of God through reflection questions and a prayer at the end of each chapter. She also suggests saints to whom we can look for inspiration and guidance, reminding us that we are not alone as we strive to more accurately reflect the image of our heavenly Father.

    Encountering Signs of Faith

    Encountering Signs of Faith

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    After a friend gave Allison Gingras a Miraculous Medal, she began to incorporate it and other sacramentals into her personal prayer time and family devotions. She soon discovered that these tangible signs--which Catholics believe prepare us to receive the grace of the sacraments--helped both her and her profoundly deaf daughter connect with God and the spiritual motherhood of Mary, who is intimately connected to so many of these practices.

    Blessings, prayers, devotions, and objects such as rosaries and scapulars are forms of sacramentals. In Encountering Signs of Faith, Gingras--founder of Reconciled to You ministries--shares the story of how these helped her discern the adoption of her daughter from China, strengthened her faith as she waited to meet her, helped her bond with the toddler, and taught her daughter about her faith.

    Gingras offers examples of saints who inspired and embraced sacramentals, including Juan Diego, Faustina, Bernadette, and Venerable Patrick Peyton. You will also learn about the spiritual benefits of incorporating sacramentals such as sacred images, novenas, prayer cards, lectio divina (sacred reading), and holy water into daily life. Reflection questions and grace-building activities are included with each chapter.

    Gingras will guide you and your family to experience these sacred signs in a new way and to connect you more meaningfully to Jesus, Mary, and the saints.

    Every Parents Battle

    Every Parents Battle

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    Educate, equip, and encourage parents to recognize, fight, and win the battles against pornography's influence in their family. Includes a family plan that focuses on prevention, not just recovery.
    Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare

    Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare

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    Demons wage war against families because families are vital to God's plan of salvation. This stark reality requires that your family members become well-trained spiritual warriors who actively secure your home and fight to keep it off-limits to demonic activity.

    In A Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Kathleen Beckman offers you potent advice from her 12 years of active participation on an exorcist's team. She shows you how to "clean up" your household by cultivating in your family a civilization of love "€" and how to withstand the spiritual attacks that inevitably come to destroy the harmonious family life you create.

    Beckman reveals how you can recognize diabolical disguises in your home and offers proven means of protection found only in the Church's arsenal of spiritual weapons.

    Demons wage war against families because families are vital to God’s plan of salvation. This stark reality requires that your family members become well-trained spiritual warriors who actively secure your home and fight to keep it off-limits to demonic activity.

    In A Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Kathleen Beckman offers you potent advice from her 12 years of active participation on an exorcist’s team. She shows you how to “clean up” your household by cultivating in your family a civilization of love — and how to withstand the spiritual attacks that inevitably come to destroy the harmonious family life you create.

    Beckman reveals how you can recognize diabolical disguises in your home and offers proven means of protection found only in the Church’s arsenal of spiritual weapons. 

    You’ll also learn the devil’s strategies — how he does not necessarily seek to possess but simply to seed your family with the venom of hatred, desolation, envy, and vice. This, she explains, is why it’s so important for spouses and children to become schooled in the art of spiritual combat. It’s the only way you can destroy the works of the devil and unmask the hidden evil that weaves in and out of your daily family life.

    Along with more than two dozen effective prayers for family healing and deliverance, you’ll also learn:

    • How to understand the spirits working for — and against — your family, and what to do in response to them

    • What specific actions to take if you believe your family has come under the influence of demonic activity

    • How to use your baptismal, spousal, and parental authority in spiritual warfare

    • How curses can become effective — and what can be done to counteract them

    • The difference between diabolical temptation, oppression, obsession, and possession

    • The seven ways your family can wear the full armor of God

    • The diabolical counterparts to each of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes

    • The 13 weapons you can use to defend yourself and your family against evil spirits

    Family Planning the Catholic Way

    Family Planning the Catholic Way

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    Natural Family Planning (NFP) embraces the nature of human sexuality without the potentially harmful effects of contraceptives. Written by Mary Lee Barron, a nurse practitioner and certified NFP instructor; Family Planning the Catholic Way explores the history of Catholic Church teaching on NFP, lists resources couples can turn to for more information, and shows why the natural approach to enjoying the gift of sexuality respects life.

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    Feeding Your Family's Soul

    Feeding Your Family's Soul

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    Feeding Your Family's Soul: Dinner Table Spirituality has won second prize in the Family Life category from the Catholic Press Association!​

    Feeding Your Family's Soul is a vital tool to enable parents to transform a regular dinner time into a prayerful faith lesson for their elementary school to high school aged children. It will indeed help to fulfill the Catholic Church's vision for evangelization in the family and beyond.

    Through 52 fun and creative faith lessons (one for each week of the year), this one-of-a-kind book will encourage parents and caregivers to seize the opportunity in teaching the Catholic faith to the children (the captive audience waiting to eat!) while gathered at the dinner table, and while reminding them of the value of coming together as a family to break bread and share hearts.

    Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle has recently started writing a column for Legatus Magzine called "Feeding the Foodie" and has begun filming a new TV series for EWTN called "Feeding Your Family's Soul".
    See her interview on Boston Catholic TV: www.feedingyourfamilyssoul.com

    Fragrance of Family Life

    Fragrance of Family Life

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    Use this prayer booklet with your family or church community to seek the Lord in communion.


    This guide will lead your reflection through 12 prayer reflections on the blessings and trials of the Holy Family. Remember the Lord's promises with psalmody; see the revelation of God's glory in the Gospel; consider Pope Francis's meditation on the them; and lift up your hearts with intercession through an invocation to the Holy Family.


    A few minutes together each day before the living God will give your family or community the grace to share together the joys and struggles of daily life.

    Getting Past Perfect: How to Find Joy and Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood

    Getting Past Perfect: How to Find Joy and Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood

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    Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Family Life. (Second Place).


    Do you ever feel like a raging tsumani, running through the house like a whirlwind and yelling at the top of your voice while the kids drag their feet and fight with one another as you desperately try to find lost shoes and get out the door on time? Overwhelmed, over-extended, and guilt-plagued?

    With honesty, humor, and practical wisdom, Getting Past Perfect helps moms overcome Pinterest-inspired perfectionism by replacing your deepest fears and anxieties with a steady trust in God and the freedom to love authentically.

    If you have ever felt that you were not "enough" as a wife or mom, or if you're someone who struggles to do it all, Getting Past Perfect offers a realistic and reassuring portrait of Catholic womanhood, placing motherhood in the context of every woman's primary role as a child of God.

    Kate Wicker--journalist, popular speaker, and author of the highly-acclaimed Weightless--shares how she shook off doubt and negative self-perception, finding self-acceptance as a mom and the desire to stop controlling everyone around her. Getting Past Perfect invites you to make this same journey as you learn to embrace the primacy of your role as a daughter of God, even amidst the daily chaos of raising children. Each chapter is designed to debunk the lies and expectations that moms often face, replacing negative self-perceptions with the truths of a woman's true calling.

    Wicker, a recovering perfectionist, helps you realize:

  • It is perfectly normal to feel like you're in over your head sometimes.
  • You can stop obsessing about what other people think and start focusing on loving yourself and your kids just as you are.
  • Your primary jobs are to let God love you and to love him back. Nurture your prayer life and make time to remember that you are first a daughter of God.
  • It's important to practice self-care no matter your stage in life.
  • Wicker openly shares how she unwittingly transferred her preoccupation with having the perfect body to being the perfect parent. By honestly sharing her mistakes and triumphs in the trenches of motherhood, Wicker reveals several common falsehoods mothers tell themselves in different seasons of their lives and how speaking the truth can liberate women to become better parents and the truest versions of themselves. Whether you're dealing with endless "why?" questions, unexpected potty emergencies, or even the unanticipated change of a new pregnancy, Getting Past Perfect will help you learn how to lean into God's abiding grace. By closing each chapter with a simple reflection question and prayer, this book provides the tools you need to embrace the messy realities of family life and to emerge from feeling overwhelmed to knowing that you are first and foremost a daughter of God.

    Girl Arise! A Catholic Feminist's Invitation to Live Boldly, Love Your Faith, and Change the World

    Girl Arise! A Catholic Feminist's Invitation to Live Boldly, Love Your Faith, and Change the World

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    Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (second place, gender issues-inclusion in the Church).


    Is it possible to be both a Catholic and a feminist? Claire Swinarski, writer and creator of The Catholic Feminist podcast, believes it is: "I'm a feminist for the same reason I'm bold and honest and sometimes ragey: because Jesus was all of those things."

    In Girl, Arise!, Swinarski reconciles the two identities by demonstrating the strength and abilities women have to share with the Body of Christ, the importance of women throughout the history of the faith, and how the love you experience through Christ and the Church can change you and the world around you.

    In Girl, Arise!: A Catholic Feminist's Invitation to Live Boldly, Love Your Faith, and Change the World Swinarski points out that while both "feminism" and "Catholicism" can mean different things to different people, both feminists and Catholics desire to make the world a better, fairer place. And she shows that by treating women with dignity equal to that of men--by calling them his friends and teaching them--Jesus acted as a feminist as well.

    With humor and sass, Swinarski addresses her frustration with the traditional concerns churches ascribe to women, as shown by the many talks directed at women focused on marriage and modesty rather than social justice. But she pinpoints the areas where modern feminism goes too far, arguing against abortion and exploring what it means to serve others rather than focus on our own needs first.

    Swinarski also tells the stories of holy women--including Vashti in the book of Esther, Sts. Thérèse of Lisieux and Joan of Arc, Mary Magdalene, and the Blessed Virgin Mary--to show how their faith influenced their actions, even when those actions went against traditional norms and roles of women.

    You will be empowered to embrace your God-given abilities as you follow the women who have gone before you in faith who--by announcing Christ to his disciples, believing in God's promises, and being faithful in hardship--changed the world.

    Giving Thanks and Letting Go: Reflections on the Gift of Motherhood

    Giving Thanks and Letting Go: Reflections on the Gift of Motherhood

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    Winner of a second-place award in family life books from the Catholic Media Association.


    What happens to a mother's heart when her children grow up and begin their own lives? How can she absorb the mixed emotions of anxiety and excitement, grief and hope?

    In Giving Thanks and Letting Go, bestselling Catholic author Danielle Bean ponders her emptying nest and overflowing heart as she encourages you to join her in leaning on God and discovering the joy and promise of this sacred season of parenting.

    Comforting, relatable, and practical, Giving Thanks and Letting Go shares Danielle Bean's personal experience of launching her children into their adult lives. From this crucial moment in her motherhood, she offers sage advice as she reflects on the precious years she spent raising children and learning to trust in God's providence.

    In her most personal book to date, Bean, brand manager at CatholicMom.com, reveals the freedom she discovered as she tossed out old trophies and Nordic Ware; the release she feels when she lets herself sob with abandon; the pleasant satisfaction of extra space in her home and in her marriage; and the happy recognition of God's abiding presence through all the years of family life.

    As you accompany Bean on her journey, you will learn to

  • let yourself grieve;
  • acknowledge that being a mom has never been easy;
  • turn to your husband;
  • give up control;
  • accept the suffering with grace;
  • trust in God to have the best plans;
  • spark joy, give thanks, and move on; and
  • nourish your soul, body, and mind.
  • Allow these familiar, comforting, and heart-tugging scenes from Bean's life and the lessons she's learned be your trusted companion for reflecting on your own parenting journey.

    God and Children: The Vocation of Parents

    God and Children: The Vocation of Parents

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    Fr. Urteaga (1921-2009) is a writer who gave exceptional value to the human side of life, and its enrichment by an ongoing struggle for virtue. Likewise, he never lost sight of the importance of grace. He addresses parents in their sometimes-difficult job of raising children to be not only men and women, but Christian saints. His modus operandi is that life is truly worthwhile if it is lived for the love of God.

    In these chapters, he draws on his own rich experience as a teacher and spiritual director. He adds Christian doctrine, humor, and common sense to make God and Children a book for all parents and especially those of young children.

    Originally printed in 1960, this newly revised and slightly abridged version of Urteaga's book captures the spirit of his advice which is grounded in truth and is timeless in quality.

    God Made Babies helping parents answer the baby question

    God Made Babies helping parents answer the baby question

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    "Where do babies come from?" This common question all too often leaves parents perplexed about what to say and when to say it. Justin and Lindsey Holcomb tackle this tough question in a common sense, biblical way. They help parents start the conversation with their children about sex by giving them the basic tools to guide them--including specific biblical content and age-appropriate ways of talking to children at different stages.

    The Holcombs, along with illustrator Trish Mahoney, have been helping parents tackle difficult but important subjects with children for many years, beginning with the award-winning God Made All of Me: A Book to Help Children Protect Their Bodies as well as God Made Me in His Image: Helping Children Appreciate Their Bodies. Now they bring their expertise to the all-important conversation about sex in God Made Babies: Helping Parents Answer the Baby Question. Instead of leaving this conversation to "experts" or to the culture, they equip parents to answer questions about sex in the right way at the right time.

    Drawing from the story of creation and how God made the living world to reproduce, God Made Babies helps children to understand the gift of reproduction in the light of God's goodness and care. Rather than waiting to have this conversation with their child at the "perfect" time, the authors encourage parents to answer questions at every stage with just the right amount of information.

    God Made Babies is part of the God Made Me Series which equips parents to have important, impactful conversations with their children, helping them to grow in understanding of God, themselves, and others. Each book in the series contains a special section just for parents and caregivers that provides biblical guidance and offers additional information and resources for talking about the topic addressed in the story.

    Good News About Sew & Marriage: Answers to Your Honest Questions About Catholic Teaching

    Good News About Sew & Marriage: Answers to Your Honest Questions About Catholic Teaching

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    "While the good news about sex, gender, and marriage remains the same as ever, cultural attitudes have shifted dramatically since this book was first released in 2000. Since that time, the logic of the sexual revolution hasn't only marched forward--it has sprinted," writes Christopher West. His updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Good News about Sex and Marriagenot only keeps pace with changes in society, it grounds our footsteps in the timeless and trustworthy teaching of the Church.

    West strives to respond to the sincere, pointed questions he hears from those he encounters in his speaking and teaching with sincere, direct, and thorough responses that address this most intimate area of human life. His teaching is rooted in St. John Paul II's revolutionary Theology of the Body. New in this edition is a much-needed chapter on questions of gender identity.

    "It's my heartfelt prayer that, whatever your state and stage in life, this book will help you in your quest to know, understand, live, and experience the beautiful truth about human love. For that's where we find the image of the divine, a foretaste of heaven--the consummate satisfaction of all our most intimate longings." --from the introduction

    Good, the Messy, and the Beautiful joys and struggles of real married life

    Good, the Messy, and the Beautiful joys and struggles of real married life

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    No marriage is perfect, and neither is the Sri's. This book is packed full of hilarious and relatable stories from their 20+ years of marriage. The Good, the Messy, and the Beautiful goes into the nitty-gritty, explaining what to do when reality hits--when the rubber hits the road.
    Growing in the Dark

    Growing in the Dark

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    With sensitivity and hope, Growing in the Dark shows how you can cultivate your child's faith even as you struggle with your own. Led by the Spirit, you and your child can learn to move through darkness radiant with God's light.o
    Hallowed Be This House Finding Signs of Heaven in Your Home

    Hallowed Be This House Finding Signs of Heaven in Your Home

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    Thomas Howard shows us that every room of your house-the living room, the kitchen, the bedroom, and even the bathroom-is a holy place where God's grace awaits you, if only you know how to recognize His presence there. With a rich awareness of God's all-encompassing love, Howard takes you on a spiritual tour through your own home and shows you how everything in it can lead you closer to God.

    In each room, Howard shows you the surprising ways you can meet God there. With wonderful insights, he reveals how, even in your daily activities you can meet the same God who came to Israel in the terror, smoke and fire in the Tabernacle, and the God who died for us on Cross. But they're by no means confined to a lofty spiritual plane: Howard sees chances to love and serve God, and sees His gentle hand, in the most seemingly dull and ordinary of places and actions.

    So take up this book to find out how cooking and cleaning, having family dinners together, and all the other commonplace actions that make up the fabric of your daily life can actually disclose God's presence to you. Your daily life as well as your devotional life will be forever transformed by this unusual look at how lovingly God awaits us even in the smallest things.

    Handbook for Catholic Moms Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body, & Soul

    Handbook for Catholic Moms Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body, & Soul

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    The Handbook for Catholic Moms, Lisa M. Hendey's eminently practical and award-winning resource, has helped new parents balance and integrate the deeply personal needs of their hearts, minds, bodies, and souls with the demands of family life and faith commitment.

    Since the first edition was published in 2010, it's become an indispensable resource for two generations of Catholic moms, offering a unique perspective on all aspects of life and honest advice from fellow moms on topics ranging from marriage and finances to stress management and parish life.

    The Handbook for Catholic Moms is not a typical parenting book: It doesn't offer tips for calming a fussy baby or dealing with adolescent angst. In caring for yourself--heart, mind, body, and soul--you can better love and care for your family, community, and Church, according to Lisa M. Hendey, founder of CatholicMom.com and bestselling author of The Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Grace of Yes.

    Hendey provides her personal stories and observations on a number of topics, including:

  • stress reduction and sleep
  • nurturing your marriage
  • engaging in Mass as a family
  • modeling lifelong learning to your children
  • balancing your career with your vocation as a mother

  • Each chapter includes relevant scripture references, quotations from saints or noted Catholic figures, commentary and perspectives from other Catholic writers, and checklists of suggested steps moms can take in bringing better balance and integration to their lives.

    Heart to Heart

    Heart to Heart

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    Parents can use this handbook on moral growth to teach virtues such as trust, gratitude, respect, empathy, responsibility, honesty, persistence, and dignity.
    Hope and a whole lot of prayer-daily devotions for parents of teenagers

    Hope and a whole lot of prayer-daily devotions for parents of teenagers

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    Are you blessed with perfect teens? Teens who never argue, disobey, or talk back? Teens who do as they're told the very first time, or even before you ask? If your answer is "yes," then you can move on. This book isn't for you.

    If, however, your answer is "keep dreaming," "I wish," an eye roll, or any variation of the word "no," then this might be the book for you. A teenager's life is full of change, turmoil, fights, hormones, overreactions, and ideas that seemed liked good ones at the time... But so is the life of a parent of a teen, and some days you just have to throw up your hands and ask God for help.

    This book will give you 365 days of reflections and prayers to help you get through a year of "What were you thinking?!" With God's help, you might just find you can do all things - even raising a teenager.

    Hope of the Family A Dialogue with Gerhard Cardinal Muller

    Hope of the Family A Dialogue with Gerhard Cardinal Muller

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    "Today, the family is in crisis--it is in crisis worldwide", Pope Francis has said. "Young people don't want to get married, they don't get married, or they live together. Marriage is in crisis, and so the family is in crisis."

    The main problem with the family in the Church today, contends Gerhard Cardinal Müller, is not the small number of civilly remarried divorced Catholics who want to receive Holy Communion. It is the large number of Catholics who live together before marriage, who marry civilly, or who do not even bother with marriage, as if these choices were sound options for Catholic living. Furthering the problem is the widespread failure of married Catholics to understand marriage as a way of Christian discipleship.

    In this engaging conversation, Cardinal Müller, one of Pope Francis' top advisers in the Vatican, addresses the challenges facing marriage and family life today. The loss of faith in many traditionally Christian societies has led to a crisis. In turn, cohabitation, civil marriage, and divorce and civil remarriage, further undermine faith because they harm the family as the "domestic Church" and the place of initial evangelization. Thus, the Church must undertake a robust new evangelization of the family: sharing the fullness of truth about marriage and family in Christ, encouraging families to worship and to pray together, and helping them to witness by their lives the joy of the gospel.

    Cardinal Müller stresses mercy and compassion in pastoral ministry with struggling Catholics, but he does so without either contradicting the teaching of Jesus about divorce and remarriage or minimizing the power of grace to transform lives. In this way he proclaims hope for the family rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

    How to Talk to Children About God

    How to Talk to Children About God

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    In this booklet, Allie Johnston offers great suggestions for talking to children about God—God’s goodness, God as Creator, how we understand the Blessed Trinity, God the storyteller, God the listener, the God who forgives, and the Good Shepherd. Excellent family activities and short prayers to stimulate further conversation and comprehension are also included.

    How to Talk to Children About Jesus

    How to Talk to Children About Jesus

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    In this booklet, Janet Schaeffler offers great suggestions for talking to your children about Jesus’ life and times, why Jesus has so many different names, whether or not Jesus ever cried (important for children to know!), some of Jesus’ most important teachings, how Jesus prayed, why he had to die, what happened afterward, and where and how do we see Jesus today. Excellent family activities and short prayers to stimulate further conversation and comprehension are also included.

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    How to Talk to Children About the Mass

    How to Talk to Children About the Mass

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    In this booklet, Tom Quinlan gives solid advice for how to make the Mass more accessible and relevant to even the youngest child. Offering simple explanations of the Mass itself, as well as the crucifix, font, lectionary, tabernacle, and more, Tom helps everyone appreciate what we do when we gather.

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    Imitating Mary: Ten Marian Virtues for the Modern Mom

    Imitating Mary: Ten Marian Virtues for the Modern Mom

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    In an age when women are bombarded with mothering advice, awardA(c)\winning Catholic journalist Marge Fenelon delves into eight instances of Mary AZs life that depict Mary as the ultimate model and companion for the modern mom.
    Indispensable Dad

    Indispensable Dad

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    By Stephen Gabriel

    The best givers of advice are those who encourage while they share their own accounts of learning through failure and celebrating success. This book offers just that. 

    As a father of eight adult children, Stephen Gabriel has years of flubs, wins, trial-and-error, joys, sorrows, lessons learned, lessons shared, observing, trench-time, and plenty of reflection on the vocation of fatherhood. His book offers a go-to virtue-checklist of sorts, full of relatable stories that relate to the grind of the Everyday. 

    Dads: use this book as a measure and reminder of your indispensable role as virtuous leaders of your family! 

    With reliance on the grace and guidance of the Heavenly Father, the sacraments, a life of prayer, the blessing of friendship and community, and common sense, Gabriel’s insight is a source of invigorating support for all fathers. 

    Joyful Momentum: Growing and Sustaining Vibrant Women's Groups

    Joyful Momentum: Growing and Sustaining Vibrant Women's Groups

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    Are you interested in connecting with other women who share your faith, interests, and everyday concerns?

    A vibrant, self-sustaining women's ministry will help you achieve this goal, can take many forms, and is a key component of any vital parish, says Elizabeth Tomlin, who for nearly a decade has launched and grown Catholic women's ministries in the United States and abroad. In Joyful Momentum, Tomlin shows you how you also can start, expand, strengthen, or retool an existing women's group or ministry in your own Catholic parish.

    God can use even the most unlikely people to build up a successful women's ministry, Elizabeth Tomlin says. "If someone had told college-aged me that I would someday lead a global women's ministry, I would have said, 'No way. I'm not smart enough. I don't know enough. I'm too sinful. I'm not good enough.'" And yet, that is exactly what happened. Tomlin is a founding member of the Military Council of Catholic Women Worldwide, the women's ministry organization of the Archdiocese for the Military Services USA.

    Whether you are interested in starting a spiritual book club or a group for moms with young children, retooling an existing ministry for moms who work outside their homes, or revitalizing a languishing prayer group or committee, you may feel underqualified and overwhelmed when first facing the challenges. Joyful Momentum provides the tools you need to get started, including "Momentum Builders" that will give you the confidence to do what needs to be done.

    Tomlin shares her personal stories, spiritual insights, and practical tips to show how almost any group can create a spirited, sustainable outreach. With natural warmth, honesty, and self-deprecating humor, she makes a compelling case for the importance of women's ministry in the life of a parish, and coaches you through all the details.

    Used for personal formation or as a group study, this book conveys the important elements of women's ministry--from a small book club to a larger undertaking that might include social media-based prayer supports, on-call childcare helpers, or multi-committee annual festivals or parishwide events.

    This book will teach you:

  • why spiritual friendships and pastoral connections are essential to the success of any women's ministry;
  • how to build a team dedicated to prayer, simple hospitality, faith-filled catechesis, humble service, and personal outreach; and
  • tips for handling trickier aspects of team leadership, such as conflict resolution and long-term transitional planning.
  • Each chapter offers practical advice and inspirational stories to help you discover how to cultivate Christ-centered friendships; discern a call to women's ministry in yourself and others; invest in prayerful preparation, biblical hospitality, and faith formation; develop a leadership team; and create a mentoring plan that will sustain the group over time.

    Keep your kids catholic

    Keep your kids catholic

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    Many Catholic parents are tempted to leave the religious education and spiritual formation of their children up to their parish or Catholic school. Professional catechist, popular blogger, and father of two, Marc Cardaronella has a passionate plea for those parents: be your child’s primary educator in the faith by what you do and say. This practical guide gives parents what they need to be a bigger partner in handing on the faith to their children by creating a faith-nurturing environment at home.

    When Marc Cardaronella started his job as a catechist, he could empathize with parents who came to him to talk about how their now-grown children had left the Church because he had been there: Despite years of religious education and regular Mass attendance, Cardaronella never really practiced his faith. He fell away from the Church right after his Confirmation and stayed away for twenty years. Now it’s his mission to equip families like yours to hand on your faith.

    His passionate message is that the kind of faith formation children need is not taught in standard religious education classes and probably never will be. Cardaronella is on a quest to help you fill the gaps by first strengthening your own faith—opening your heart to God, practicing trust, clearing away obstacles to God’s grace, and creating regular prayer and study routines at home. He gives you the tools to pass that faith on to your kids and make it stick by teaching you how to pray with your children consistently, about adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, the power of the Examen prayer, and how to motivate your kids to be engaged in parish life and Christian outreach.

    Keep Your Kids Catholic offers equal shares of inspiration, challenge, and practical advice. Each chapter includes Reflect, Pray, and Live sections to help you integrate Cardaronella’s message into family life.

    Live Big, Love Bigger - Gettin Real with BBQ, Sweet Tea, and A Whole Lotta Jesus

    Live Big, Love Bigger - Gettin Real with BBQ, Sweet Tea, and A Whole Lotta Jesus

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    Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (third place, first-time author).


    Popular blogger Kathryn Whitaker is a Dr Pepper super fan, Aggie-loving, type A mom of six with a personality the size of her native Texas. The stressful premature birth of her fifth child threw her orderly world into chaos and ultimately led her to rethink her priorities. In Live Big, Love Bigger, Whitaker shares her journey and challenges readers to understand that they, too, can live a life of authenticity with joy-filled purpose, love, and faith. Along the way, she'll help readers see that choosing to say no is the only way they'll be able to say yes to what matters most--Jesus.

    It's not every family who would plan a week-long Texas barbecue pilgrimage for a family of eight, much less expand the idea to a multi-month quest to experience the state, eat amazing food, and visit some awesome religious sites along the way. But Whitaker did it--when she decided imperfect family road trips trumped a vacation at a luxury resort. "Barbecue encouraged us to hit the road, while Jesus met us at every single stop along the way--proof that he loves brisket as much as we do, right?"

    Ditching the fancy vacation was one way Whitaker learned to give up control and say no to perfectionism and over-achievement in order to live a new, more intentional life and discover what God truly has in store for her family.

    Whitaker's sassy authenticity will make readers laugh--and cry--while encouraging them to be honest about mistakes in every area of their life, embrace them, and find a way to let God redeem it all.

    Made This Way: How to Prepare Kids to Face Today's Tough Moral Issues

    Made This Way: How to Prepare Kids to Face Today's Tough Moral Issues

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    A generation ago, Christian parents didn't have to worry about how to explain transgenderism to their nine-year-old, or help their teenager deal with mockery at school for believing in traditional marriage. But today, as our culture's moral center continues to fly apart and all publicly aired and celebrated, we have no choice but to equip our kids to understand and own the truth. In Made This Way, Leila Miller and Trent Horn give parents (guardians and teachers, too!) crucial techniques to form children ( from tots to teens) with the understanding they need appropriate to their age and maturity level to meet the world' s challenges. Their secret lies in an approach that begins not with the Bible or Church teaching but with the natural law. In kid-friendly ways, Miller and Horn help you communicate how the right way to live is rooted in the way we' re made.

    Topics include: Living Together Outside of Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Divorce, Contraception, Abortion, Reproductive Technologies, Modesty, Pornography, Transgenderism, Homosexuality.

    Silence can no longer be an option. If we' re not teaching our children how to understand tough moral issues, then the world will!

    Make My Life Simple: Bringing Peace to Heart and Home

    Make My Life Simple: Bringing Peace to Heart and Home

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    One night, in desperation, Rachel Balducci cried out to God, and he answered in a startling, freeing, and life-changing way. If you are feeling more chaos than peace, more panic than joy, take heart. Make My Life Simple: Bringing Peace to Heart and Home gives you down-to-earth practical pointers to achieve peace and order:

    - In your home: Establish a peaceful environment for you and your family

    - In yourself: Design an ordered way of living to benefit your body, mind, and spirit with Rachel's friend-to-friend advice

    - In your spiritual life: Create order in your spiritual relationships with Jesus, yourself, and the others in your life

    Manly Art of Raising a Daughter

    Manly Art of Raising a Daughter

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    This is the challenge Alan Migliani makes in this honest and insightful book for fathers who want to raise confident, strong, God-centered daughters.

    Many men feel detached from their daughters, unable to connect with them or even influence their decisions and actions. Here Migliani shares his own successes and failures as he transitioned from an overworked, outof-touch father to one that has become a beloved leader in his home.

    He shows how you, too, can come to more fully fulfill your role as head of the household, and how to lead your family with love, understanding, and a guiding hand.

    Read these pages, and you'll also learn: how to repair a damaged relationship with your daughter ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚€ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚" and even your wife, why it's important to know your daughter's friends ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚€ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚" and how to do it, why respecting your wife is critical to raising strong daughters, three things you must know about dealing with your daughter's boyfriend, how to teach your daughter to defend herself physic

    Mary's Way Power of Entrusting Your Child to God

    Mary's Way Power of Entrusting Your Child to God

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    How do you walk with your children during times of struggle and crisis? Do you feel as if nothing you do will be enough?

    In Mary's Way, a heartfelt book for moms who struggle to guide children through the various stages of their lives, Catholic speaker and teacher Judy Landrieu Klein shows how her own crisis of faith helped her release her children to the care of the Blessed Mother. In doing so, Klein shows you how to find the love, joy, and peace of Our Lord as you surrender your will to him.

    Judy Landrieu Klein struggled with her faith as she lived through her son's near-fatal addiction to drugs and her daughter's painful anxiety. She discovered she couldn't handle the relentless pressure of life not measuring up to her expectations and it was eating away at her family.

    Klein considered Mary's reaction to the events in the life of Jesus. She meditated on Mary's fiat and her prayer of total surrender to God's will and saw how this act of obedience carried on throughout Mary's life as she witnessed the life of her son. As Klein focused on her devotion to the Blessed Mother, her life and faith were transformed.

    In Mary's Way, Klein reflects on the Annunciation and describes her own to struggle to embrace the will of God by surrendering control of her family planning. She meditates on Mary's powerlessness during the Crucifixion, finding a place of calming surrender during her own son's escalating battle with addiction.

    Klein shows how you can become a more powerful intercessor for yourself and your children. When you finish reading this book, you'll find yourself turning to Mary and surrendering yourself and your children more fully to God.