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What are Best Practices for the OCIA?
Fr. Daniel J. Mahan, director of the Institute on the Catechism for the USCCB
What Are You Craving? 5 Ways to Restore Sanity and Serenity to Your Relationship with Food
Mary DeTurris Poust
It's the start of a new year, a time when most of us reflect on our lives and set some goals. But are we approaching our resolutions from the wrong perspective? Maybe dropping ten pounds has less to do with the food we eat and more to do with the messages we play in our heads and the holes waiting to be filled in our hearts.Based on her latest book from Ave Maria Press, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God, author Mary DeTurris Poust explores the undeniable connection between physical and spiritual nourishment. So often what feels like hunger for food is really a hunger for something much deeper, a craving for t...
It's the start of a new year, a time when most of us reflect on our lives and set some goals. But are we approaching our resolutions from the wrong perspective? Maybe dropping ten pounds has less to do with the food we eat and more to do with the messages we play in our heads and the holes waiting to be filled in our hearts.Based on her latest book from Ave Maria Press, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God, author Mary DeTurris Poust explores the undeniable connection between physical and spiritual nourishment. So often what feels like hunger for food is really a hunger for something much deeper, a craving for the kind of fullness that only God can provide. Food becomes a way to fill the voids, but it never truly satisfies. The result is an endless cycle of weight problems, eating issues, and untapped spiritual potential.Join Mary on a path toward wholeness, and discover a place of balance, peace, and self-acceptance. That's a resolution worth making!
What Parish Leaders Should Know about Ministering to Couples Experiencing Infertility
Angelique Ruhi-López|Carmen SantamaríaInfertility affects approximately one in six couples in the United States. For many Catholic couples, the Church is the natural place to look for help and much-needed support. In order to offer healing and hope for the journey, it is important to first understand what infertility is and how it affects couples. In this webinar, Angelique Ruhi-Lopez and Carmen Santamaria, authors of The Infertility Companion for Catholics, will offer tips, advice, and resources in order to provide spiritual and practical support for couples facing infertility.
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What the Four Female Doctors of the Church Teach Us about Authentic Spirituality
Vinita Hampton Wright
What’s New about the OCIA?
Fr. Daniel J. Mahan, director of the Institute on the Catechism for the USCCB Watch Now
The Way of the Listener: 10 Steps for Listening to Homilies (even bad ones!)
Joshua J. Whitfield
How can ministry leaders, laity, and clergy help the Church improve preaching? Believe it or not, it’s not just the preachers’ responsibility—it’s everyone’s. Spiritually speaking, the quality of preaching depends as much on listeners as it does on speakers. How we listen to homilies (and how we help others listen) is an important part of evangelism and parish ministry. Fr. Joshua Whitfield, author of The Crisis of Bad Preaching, offers The Way of the Listener: 10 Steps for Listening to Homilies (even bad ones!) to help those listening to homilies make the best of it! If you thought the homily was time to take a nap, think again! Learn how...
How can ministry leaders, laity, and clergy help the Church improve preaching? Believe it or not, it’s not just the preachers’ responsibility—it’s everyone’s. Spiritually speaking, the quality of preaching depends as much on listeners as it does on speakers. How we listen to homilies (and how we help others listen) is an important part of evangelism and parish ministry. Fr. Joshua Whitfield, author of The Crisis of Bad Preaching, offers The Way of the Listener: 10 Steps for Listening to Homilies (even bad ones!) to help those listening to homilies make the best of it! If you thought the homily was time to take a nap, think again! Learn how to listen to homilies the right way!
