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3 happy links to other sandboxes

Hi Everybody! Checking in to let you know I’ve been busy in some other places, and I’m having fun — whether it’s giving a talk about the rosary to the Marist Mothers Prayer Group…

Marist Mothers

 

or sharing my writing around the web. I’m featured this week at Women In the New Evangelization with a piece about gratitude, and last week I shared my story at CatholicMom.com about venerating St. Maria Goretti’s relics on the Pilgrimage of Mercy. I have two sets of holy cards to give to readers, so I’m happy to announce that Maria at CatholicMom and Karen T. on my blog will both be receiving those holy cards soon.

Finally, I’m interviewed in episode #197 of Among Women with Pat Gohn. It’s so much fun to join Pat on the other side of the microphone. Pat is a dear friend and a long time collaborator, and most recently she blessed me by writing the foreword to my book, My Badass Book of Saints. We have a lovely conversation that explains the book title, the structure of the book, some of my favorite saints…and Pat gushes over my selfie with the Pope. Give it a listen!

[update!] You’ll want to enter Pat’s contest, too, as she celebrates her 200th show with some giveaways! My book is included in a great group of women!

AW 200 Contest photo

 

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Review: The Grace of Yes

yesOccasionally I’ll pick up a book with the intention of reading it slowly, to really savor it and reread passages that resonate deeply within me.

The Grace of Yes: Eight Virtues for Generous Living by Lisa Hendey could be that kind of book.

Or it could be the kind of book you start reading a little before dinner and before you know it the doorbell is ringing because you got so caught up in it that your husband gave up on promises of pot roast and ordered pizza.

It could be that kind of book.

It is that kind of book.

I’ve enjoyed Hendey’s books in the past — they are practical and offer all kinds of wonderful activities and reflections for the Catholic life, but this one, The Grace of Yes, is something more. We’re invited behind the scenes and into an intimate conversation with the author. She doesn’t pop us over the head and tell us how and when to Yes to God. Instead, she shares her journey. It’s like being invited into her living room for some coffee, and then you don’t want to go.

I heartily recommend this book for those of you who have trouble saying Yes, not because you don’t want to, but because you’re unsure of yourself. And for those of you who don’t know how to say No, there’s something in there for you, too.

Get a copy for yourself, and a copy for a friend. Then, get together and discuss it.

  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Ave Maria Press (November 3, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 159471472X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1594714726
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at Catholicmom.com!

Hey there! Here’s a little reflection on going to Mass while on vacation. With picture goodness!

I brushed sand off the back of my husband’s pants as we walked up the steps to enter the little beach-community church for Mass last week. I realized I ought to do the same. We were staying at a house right on the sand, and it was impossible to get to the car without dredging through sand, no matter how hard we tried.

Read the rest of Finding Home on Vacation at CatholicMom.com

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