Lisa Hendey, Ave Maria Press author and founder of CatholicMom.com, has been added to the ranks of Patheos bloggers.
According to Elizabeth Scalia, managing editor of the Catholic portal at Patheos and forthcoming Ave Maria Press author:
"During this Year of Faith, our Catholic Channel at Patheos continues to be blessed with an influx of talented, creative and interesting writers. About ten days ago we welcomed Sam Rocha and Margaret Rose Realy—two writers who could not be more disparate in their approaches to faith and yet worship in commonality—and today we are thrilled to add the astonishingly busy founder, editor, writer, speaker, and Catholic publishing entrepreneur Lisa Hendey to the mix with her new blog, which she calls 'A Good Measure'."
Read the complete announcement here.
Sarah A. Reinhard, popular Catholic blogger and speaker, will begin her blog tour on Saturday, October 6th, as part of the launch of her newest book, A Catholic Mother’s Companion to Pregnancy. Reinhard’s fans and friends are invited to follow her virtual travels as she offers guest posts on each of the twenty mysteries of the Rosary. There will be a link in each post guiding readers to a page where they can enter to win a FREE Nook HD Tablet e-reader.
Reinhard's tour schedule currently includes:
October 6th: The Annunciation on The Anchoress by Elizabeth Scalia
October 7th: The Visitation on Of Sound Mind and Spirit by Shelly Kelly
October 8th: The Nativity on Riparians at the Gate by Jen Fitz
October 9th: The Presentation on Happy Catholic by Julie Davis
October 10th: The Finding of Jesus in the Temple on Random Acts of Momness by Ginny Moyer
October 11th: The Baptism of Our Lord on Mommy Marginalia by Victoria Watkins
October 12th: The Wedding at Cana on The Practicing Catholic by Lisa Schmidt
October 13th: The Proclamation of the Kingdom on Shoved to Them by Rebecca Frech
October 14th: The Transfiguration on Plot Line and Sinker by Ellen Gable Hrkach
October 15th: The Institution of the Eucharist on Rosetta Stone by Michelle Reitemeyer
October 16th: The Agony in the Garden on The Kennedy Adventures by Dianna Kennedy
October 17th: The Scourging at the Pillar on Franciscan Mom by Barb Szyszkiewicz
October 18th: The Crowning of Thorns on Happy Little Homemaker by Jen Steed
October 19th: The Carrying of the the Cross on Spiritual Woman Thoughts by Patrice
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October 20th: The Crucifixion on This Little Light by Michelle Colasante
October 21st: The Resurrection on Columbus Catholic Women by Michele Faehnle
October 22nd: The Ascension on Catholic Drinkie by Sarah Vabulas
October 23rd: The Descent of the Holy Spirit on Karen Edmisten by Karen Edmisten
October 24th: The Assumption on Scrutinies by Dorian Speed
October 25th: The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on The Wine Dark Sea by Melanie Betanelli
Building on the popularity of Lisa M. Hendey’s The Handbook for Catholic Moms and A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and her award-winning website CatholicMom.com, Ave Maria Press is pleased to announce the launch of CatholicMom.com Books, which will take place at this week’s Catholic Marketing Network tradeshow in Arlington, Texas.
In the spirit of the New Evangelization, and at the forefront of Catholic new media, Hendey and her fellow moms and bloggers celebrate all things faith, family, and fun from a thoroughly Catholic perspective. Through the triumphs and tedium of the everyday, CatholicMom.com Books will encourage and support moms in their vocations, showing how their Catholic faith can be the vital center of their experience.
Ave Maria Press’s CatholicMom.com Books will include 1-2 books per year, starting in September 2012 with A Catholic Mother’s Companion to Pregnancy by popular blogger and author Sarah Reinhard. Reinhard’s book accompanies expectant mothers from conception to baptism with weekly reflections and prayers rooted in the mysteries of the Rosary. Due out in 2013 will be a book of Catholic baby names by Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur and one by Marge Fenelon on eight Marian virtues for motherhood.
Hendey will play an active role in selecting new authors and books for this exciting new series, contributing a foreword for each title and promoting the books on her site and through the thousands who follow her on social media networks.
Hendey’s website has seen exponential growth since its inception in 2000 and now welcomes over half a million unique visitors per year: she is the original Catholic mommy blogger. This vibrant online community provides a friendly forum and digital meeting place for Catholic women to exchange stories, experiences, and prayers, and CatholicMom.com Books will be a treasury of wisdom from many of Hendey’s well-known and trusted online contributors and others.
Ave Maria Press is once again leading the way in Catholic high school religion textbooks! We are pleased to announce that Jesus Christ: God’s Revelation to the World is now available to purchase on the iPad in the iBooks app, becoming the first USCCB Framework-approved textbook available on this platform. This textbook is the most interactive Catholic religion textbook on the market, complete with fun and informative widgets, hyperlinks, and all of the iBook reader features.
Our goal is to make the first-semester freshman and sophomore titles available this fall. Framework Course I (Jesus Christ: God’s Revelation to the World) will be quickly followed by Course III (Jesus Christ: Source of Our Salvation). Second-semester freshman and sophomore textbooks, Course II (Jesus Christ: His Mission and Ministry) and Course IV (The Church: Our Story), will be available in January 2013. The final two core framework textbooks, Course V (Meeting Jesus in the Sacraments) and Course VI (Your Life in Christ), are scheduled for release in August 2013.
Download a free sample of Jesus Christ: God’s Revelation to the World in the iBooks app. The complete textbook can be purchased and downloaded here for $10.99 in the Apple iBookstore. To find the book in the iBookstore, search for "Ave Maria Press."
Take a quick look at some screenshots the the textbook on the Apple iPad:
Two Ave Maria Press authors, also priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross, won first-place Catholic Press Association awards at the 2012 Catholic Media Conference in Indianapolis on June 22.
Rev. Ronald Raab, C.S.C., author of The Unsheltered Heart and associate pastor of Saint Andre Bessette Catholic Church in Portland, Oregon, won in the category of best regular column, spiritual life, for three columns in Celebrate! magazine: “Getting Our Feet Wet” (Spring 2011), “Message in a Bottle” (Summer 2011), and “Off The Wall” (Fall 2011).
According to the judges, “The author offers insight and inspiration in each column, driving the reader to think about each column well after reading.” Raab previously won first place in the column category in the 2012 Canadian Church Press Award for the same series of columns.
Rev. Daniel G. Groody, C.S.C. won first prize for best coverage of immigration for his America article “A Theology of Migration.” Groody is associate professor of theology and director of the Center for Latino Spirituality and Culture at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies. Groody and Cardinal Roger Mahony are coauthoring a forthcoming mini-unit on immigration for high school students.
The judges noted that his story was “One man’s personal journey, experiences, and reflections. Never loses the big picture. Everyone should approach immigration thus.”
Groody recently received the Touchstone Award from the National Federation of Priests’ Councils.
Rev. Thomas J. O’Hara, C.S.C., was elected as the new Provincial Superior of the Congregation of Holy Cross, United States Province of Priests and Brothers by the Provincial Chapter in Portland, Ore., on Friday, June 15 (Feast Day of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus).
Fr. O’Hara is the first elected Provincial of the newly merged United States Province. The Eastern Province merged into the Indiana Province forming the United States Province of Priests and Brothers, which became effective on July 1, 2011.
As Provincial Superior, Fr. O’Hara will oversee the work and welfare of more than 500 priests, brothers and seminarians in the U.S. Province. He succeeds Rev. David T. Tyson, who served as Provincial Superior for 9 years.
More information about the election of Fr. O'Hara is available here.
Ave Maria Press is delighted to announce that A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms, by author Lisa M. Hendey, has won second place in the inspirational category of the 2012 Excellence in Publishing Awards. These awards are sponsored by the Association of Catholic Publishers and seek to recognize the best in Catholic publishing. The winners were announced earlier today at the 2012 Religious Booksellers Trade Exhibit in St. Charles, IL.
(The following is reprinted from the ACP press release)
Awards were given for books falling into six categories: General Interest, Inspirational, Prayer and Spirituality, Scripture, Theology, and Resources for Ministry. The "Book of the Year" was named from among the first-place finishers of the first six categories.
A complete list of the winners by category follows.
General Interest
All Is Grace: A Biography of Dorothy Day by Jim Forest (Orbis Books)
Wisdom for Living the Final Season by Kathy Kalina (Pauline Books & Media)
Why Stay Catholic? by Michael Leach (Loyola Press)
Inspirational
The Other Side of Chaos by Margaret Silf (Loyola Press)
A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms by Lisa M. Hendey (Ave Maria Press)
Forgiveness: A Catholic Approach by R. Scott Hurd (Pauline Books & Media)
Prayer & Spirituality
The Mass in Scripture by Stephen Binz (Our Sunday Visitor)
God in the Dark by Susan R. Pitchford (Liturgical Press)
The Road to Eternal Life by Michael Casey (Liturgical Press)
The Ignatian Adventure by Kevin O'Brien (Loyola Press)
Scripture
The Bible and Science by Vincent Smiles (Liturgical Press)
Building Our House on Rock by Dennis Hamm, SJ (The Word Among Us Press)
Numbers by Irene Nowell, OSB (Liturgical Press)
Theology
Being About Borders by Michele Saracino (Liturgical Press)
Efficacious Engagement by Kimberly Hope Belcher (Liturgical Press)
Become What You Receive by John H. McKenna (Liturgy Training Publications)
Resources for Ministry
I Will Remember You by Kimberly B. Schuler (Pauline Books & Media)
Adaptive First Eucharist by David Rizzo, Mercedes McBride Rizzo, and Brendan Rizzo (Loyola Press)
Practice Makes Catholic by Joseph Paprocki (Loyola Press)
Living the Word by Dianne Bergant, CSA, and Rev. James A. Wallace, CSsR (World Library Publications)
To schedule interviews, contact Therese Brown at 410-988-2926 or at tbrown@cbpa.org.
The Association of Catholic Publishers (ACP), celebrating 25 years of service to the Catholic publishing field, is a membership organization of Catholic publishers, those who provide services to Catholic publishers, and individuals who work with Catholic publishers. The ACP provides opportunities for members to further the Catholic publishing industry, promote Catholic publishing and reading, and engage those they interact with including retailers, pastoral leaders, individual customers, and staff.
Join Stephen Martin, a nonprofit professional and journalist, as he departs on a blog tour for the release of his first book, The Messy Quest for Meaning. In Messy Quest, Martin tells the story of his own challenging pursuit of purpose and those of numerous other seekers, including actor Martin Sheen; activist Dorothy Day; and Cory Booker, the unlikely mayor of Newark, NJ. Their experiences, combined with insights from the ancient traditions of Trappist monks, point toward five key practices that can unlock our potential. Martin helps readers grapple with life’s most fundamental questions—What was I put here to do? And how do I do it? — and ready themselves for the next steps on their own unique journeys.
Follow Martin as he visits with fellow bloggers. The tour schedule will be updated as posts are added and currently includes:
May 2nd: Sarah Reinhard on Snoring Scholar
May 2nd: Lisa Hendey on CatholicMom.com
May 9th: Kate Wicker on KateWicker.com
May 21st: Fran Rossi Szpylczyn on There Will Be Bread, Parish Blog of St. Edward the Confessor, and Pastoral Postings
