Fr. Gary Caster, a priest of the Diocese of Peoria and Catholic chaplain at Williams College, leads the listener on a daily retreat and reflection through the season of Lent with one of the most beloved saints of all time. Using the readings used by the Church for each weekday and Sunday, Fr. Caster presents reflections to help the listener enter into the holy season in a unique way, becoming centered on the Scriptures while embracing the life and message of the Little Flower.
This audiobook is appropriate for individual or group use. It is equally useful as a personal devotional or a corporate reflection used in a small or large group setting.
Popular author Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle is back, this time with a book that addresses the vocation of motherhood, with all its joys and challenges. Using personal recollections, stories, Scripture, papal writings, and quotes from the saints, Donna-Marie encourages women to fully embrace their calling as mothers. The book takes an honest look at family planning, raising sons and daughters in our media age, overcoming perfectionism, single parenting, and dealing with the tough issues today's families face.
These days, getting kids to focus on God instead of their iPods takes nothing less than supernatural intervention. Loving God and following him often makes you look weird to your neighbors. The Willitses understand the struggle, and in their very first book, they share their energetic, humorous, and imperfect attempts to live out their faith in today's world. Sometimes it helps to know that others are on the same narrow path as you, stumbling just as you do.Greg and Jennifer Willits's view of the world covers the gamut of daily life, from kids and comic books to marriage and dealing with technology, and shows readers that you don t have to be perfect parents with perfect kids to be good Catholics.
By meditating on personal examples from the author's life, as well as reflecting on the inspirational life and writings of Thomas Merton, stories from the Gospels, as well as the lives of other holy men and women (among them, Henri Nouwen, Therese of Lisieux and Pope John XXIII) the reader will see how becoming who you are, and becoming the person that God created, is a simple path to happiness, peace of mind and even sanctity.
Susan Vogt has walked in your parental shoes and faced the same spiritual challenges as you: how to respect and nurture the faith that lies deep within each young adult, no matter what it looks like on the surface. To help you negotiate bumps along the road of later parenthood, she draws from the classic virtues and adds contemporary virtues that she believes are good habits to develop as a parent transitions from the role of caretaker to a guide by the side of an adult child. The virtues she identifies are not the only ones that can help parents deepen their own spirituality, but they are especially relevant to forming new relationships with those you love.
Dion came up out of the Bronx in the 50s and tore through the music charts in a ferocious display of talent. He continued to make great music while slowly returning to his Catholic roots. His hard-won wisdom filters through his stories whether he's recalling how he went shopping with John Lennon and ended up on the cover of Sgt. Peppers, what it was like to travel in the Jim Crow South with Sam Cooke, or the true story of the Day the Music Died.
In a series of always moving, sometimes surprising, and often hilarious stories, Fr. Benedict Groeschel introduces you to the men and women who have influenced him over the course of his life. Some are unknown, such as Mr. Graff, a Jewish man who tailored the suit the young man would wear to the seminary: Look, I don t understand about monasteries, but I ll give you a piece of advice. Be a good boy. Some are famous, such as Mother Teresa, Cardinal O Connor, and Fr. Solanus Casey who once, in Fr. Benedict s presence, stepped unprotected into a swarm of angry bees, pulled out his harmonica, and played Mother McCree to calm them.
