When dirty dishes and laundry pile up, it’s easy to believe that the call to sanctity is for someone else. But this inspiring book written by a Catholic mother of five and based on the teachings of Mother Teresa shows us how faith can support mother's in their most holy task—raising children.

The Heart of Motherhood: Finding Holiness in the Catholic Home

Parenting & Relationships

Donna-Marie Cooper-O'Boyle

Family Relationships

PublishDrive

This beautifully crafted book is a reflection guide, keepsake, and prayer journal that offers inspiration for each month of pregnancy in the tradition of the popular nine-day prayer, the Novena. Your feet are swollen, your hormones are a mess, and you still crave too much ice cream. For every mother-to-be, the nine months of pregnancy can be demanding. Competing with the joy of anticipation is the frustration of bodily pain and limitation. In this intimate book, Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle invites pregnant women everywhere to see their pregnancy not as a burden but as a living prayer to God. Connecting the nine months of pregnancy with the nine-part novena prayer tradition known to Catholics everywhere, Donna Marie shows how each month of pregnancy connects the mother to the great Catholic saints and teachers. Alongside the devotional and the catechetical helps are pointed references to the development of the child in the womb as the months of pregnancy progress. Includes a foreword by Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta and an Apostolic Blessing from Pope John Paul II.

Prayerfully Expecting: A Nine-Month Novena for Mothers to Be

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

Crossroad

Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle is a Catholic author, a radio and television host, and an inspirational speaker known and admired from coast to coast. Yet with all of her public exposure, she has revealed very little about her personal history, that is, until now. When she discovered that sharing her struggles gives encouragement to others, she was persuaded to write this story of her life.
Growing up in a Polish-American Catholic family, Donna-Marie was blessed with hard-working parents who provided a stable home for their eight children. At times her childhood was golden and carefree, but other times it was tarnished by pain that she felt was best left unspoken as she sought God for help and strength.
After she left home after high school, her path took some harrowing turns. A Vietnam veteran fiancé snapped and held her against her will. She suffered pregnancy loss, serious illness, divorce, and single motherhood. Perhaps her greatest trial was an epic custody battle in which she needed to defend both her reputation as a mother and the safety of her five children.
Yet through all the dark valleys, Donna-Marie kept the fire of her faith burning. Helping her to see the beauty of the crosses in her life, and to rely on the presence and the providence of God, were saintly souls who became her friends and mentors. One of these was Blessed Mother Teresa, who was her confidant and spiritual mother for ten years.

The Kiss of Jesus: How Mother Teresa and the Saints Helped Me to Discover the Beauty of the Cross

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Ignatius Press

Moments of inspiration from some of your favorite saints: strive to imitate their virtues, learn from their timeless wisdom, and ask for their intercessions.
Dear St. Padre Pio, Pray for me, please, that I may receive the graces I need to deeply participate in the holy sacrifice of the Mass. Please help me to desire humility, simplicity, and the spirit of obedience in my walk of life. Help me to realize the power in suffering united to the will of God. St. Padre Pio, pray for us and all who invoke your aid. If it is in God's holy will, please grant me (here mention your request). Amen.

Catholic Saints Prayer Book: Moments of Inspiration from Your Favorite Saints

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Our Sunday Visitor

Embracing the God-given Dignity of Womanhood With all the mixed messages that women receive from society today, it s easy to be distracted from and even unreceptive to the deep and abiding love that Christ has for them. Whether single or married, religious or consecrated, parenting children, or spiritually mentoring others, women need to know that the Lord understands the many challenges they face, their desire for inspiration, and, above all, their need to be affirmed as women. Through this book of original and traditional prayers, inspiring writings, and uplifting words from the saints, women can be touched by God's divine love, thrive in affirmation from the Church, and understand and appreciate the true feminine genius that Christ offers.

A Catholic Woman's Book of Prayers

O'Boyle reflects on the presence of Christ in every aspect of a woman's life - as the source of her dignity, her strength, and her joy. In a conversational tone she highlights how the sacraments, the virtues, prayer, Mary and the saints, the works of mercy, and various devotions and practices all offer women grace and guidance for their lives.

Rooted in Love: Our Calling As Catholic Women

Ave Maria Press

Whether you're together on a military base with your spouse or alone waiting for your loved one to return from deployment, you're juggling the many endless, special, and often heartbreaking demands placed on military families demands not addressed in most prayer books. And, like so many other military wives, you've often got to bear these burdens alone, and sometimes even silently.
To help you, we've created this unique book for Catholic military wives.
Here you'll find powerful prayers composed for your needs and also frank and inspiring testimony from fellow Catholic military wives. These are your stories, told with unflinching honesty, echoing your heartaches, your pains, and yes, your amazing triumphs in faith, both small and large.
On good days, By Dawn's Early Light will help you thank God for the blessings of your spouse's noble vocation; on bad days, it will help you walk steadily in your sure Catholic faith, grateful to be able to put one foot in front of another.
All too well you know that for you, heroism doesn't remain on the battlefield it's woven into the fabric of your life.
By Dawn's Early Lightshines the healing light of Christ on that heroism, giving honor and praise to you and to God, as with Him you fulfill the duties and experience the joys of one of the most noble of all vocations: that of a military wife.

By Dawn's Early Light: Prayers and Meditations for Catholic Military Wives

Sophia Institute Press

In these spiritually-rich pages, award-winning Catholic author Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle brings you powerful prayers and readings guaranteed to shield you from the annual holiday sales frenzy that, during the holy season of Advent, distracts even sincere believers from preparation for the coming of the Christ Child.
These wise pages are sure to draw you closer to Our Lady of Fatima and her gracious messages of peace and hope. For these Advent prayers and readings are all rooted in Mary's 1917 messages to Jacinta, Francisco, and Lucia (the three young Fatima visionaries); and in the personal Fatima devotions of three of our holy contemporaries, St. Teresa of Calcutta, St. John Paul II, and the late Fr. Andrew Apostoli.
Reflecting on Advent through their lives and words, you will also learn:
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<li>The prayers of adoration the Angel taught Jacinta, Francisco, and Lucia</li>
<li>What Fr. Andrew considered the most important of Our Lady's Fatima requests</li>
<li>How St. John Paul II fulfilled the Third Secret of Fatima and why he credits Our Lady with saving his life!</li>
<li>How, in his final months, Fr. Andrew radically fulfilled Our Lady's Fatima requests</li>
<li>The role Mother Teresa secretly played in the consecration of Russia</li>
<li>Why, particularly in Advent, you must pray for Our Lady's Immaculate Heart to triumph</li>
<li>And much more to help you grow closer to Our Lady and keep your Advent frenzy-free.</li>
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With the sure guidance of Our Lady of Fatima and these six saintly souls who loved her intensely, the frustrations of our modern Christmas seasons will soon melt away. Advent will become for you a period of expectant waiting and a time of joy and hope, as you experience within you an ever-growing desire for the coming celebration of the birth of Jesus.

Advent with Our Lady of Fatima

The Domestic Church: Room By Room, A Study Guide for Mothers (New Edition)

Reference

Servant

The Miraculous Medal: Stories, Prayers, and Devotions (New Edition)

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