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Real Life with Mary Book Club: Week 3

5 days ago | catholicmom.com | Barb Szyszkiewicz

Our Book Club selection for May 2025: Real Life with Mary by Kelsey Gillespy. Watch the Week 3 video!Our May 2025 Book Club selection is a book honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary! Kelsey Gillespy, in her new book, Real Life with Mary: Growing in Virtue to Magnify the Lord, encourages moms to grow in friendship with Mary and learn from her how to walk the daily path to holiness.
Lectio the Liturgy: Sunday, June 1, 2025

1 week ago | catholicmom.com | Maria Johnson

Maria Morera Johnson shares a reflection on the Collect for the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. This week we Lectio the Liturgy with the Collect for the Solemnity of the Ascension of the lord. "Gladden us with holy joys, almighty God, and make us rejoice with devout thanksgiving, for the Ascension of Christ your Son is our exaltation, and, where the Head has gone before in glory, the Body is called to follow in hope.
Meatless Friday: Spinach Salad with Berries and Feta

1 week ago | catholicmom.com | Maria Johnson

For Meatless Friday, Maria Morera Johnson shares a simple salad that can serve as a main course or side dish. Download our printable recipe card!The summer months invite us outdoors on beautiful days and indoors on days when the heat is too much, and the thought of a heavy meal isn’t appealing. This light strawberry salad is filling and cool, and takes advantage of fresh produce from your garden or local farmers’ markets.
Real Life with Mary Book Club: Week 2

1 week ago | catholicmom.com | Barb Szyszkiewicz

Our Book Club selection for May 2025: Real Life with Mary by Kelsey Gillespy. Watch the Week 2 video!Our May 2025 Book Club selection is a book honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary! Kelsey Gillespy, in her new book, Real Life with Mary: Growing in Virtue to Magnify the Lord, encourages moms to grow in friendship with Mary and learn from her how to walk the daily path to holiness.
Motherhood: Built on Sacrificial Love

1 week ago | catholicmom.com | Roxane B. Salonen

Roxane Salonen holds up a defining truth about what’s at the center of the sublime, God-given vocation of motherhood. “We nailed it!” I texted my friend, referring to an article on motherhood I had just sent her: an essay affirming the conclusions we had come to together at a nearby coffee shop.
Daily Gospel Reflection for May 26, 2025

1 week ago | catholicmom.com | Lindsay Schlegel

Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel. Today's Gospel: John 15:26-16:4aHuman beings, and women in particular, are relational beings. We are made for communion, made to be with each other, care for each other, be cared for by each other. The other side of the coin is that we can take it as quite a blow when someone rejects what we offer out of love.
Meatless Friday: 5 Dishes to Bring to a Picnic

2 weeks ago | catholicmom.com | Barb Szyszkiewicz

Here in the USA, it's a holiday weekend! If you're attending a picnic (or hosting one), here are five meatless options complete with printable recipe cards. It's the unofficial start of summer, and the perfect time of year for a picnic! Whether you're hosting the event or bringing a dish along, having a meatless option is always helpful. Here are five choices shared by our writers! You can click on each photo to go straight to the recipe.
Real Life with Mary Book Club: Week 1

2 weeks ago | catholicmom.com | Barb Szyszkiewicz

Our Book Club selection for May 2025: Real Life with Mary by Kelsey Gillespy. Find out why Kelsey wrote this book!Our May 2025 Book Club selection is a book honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary! Kelsey Gillespy, in her new book, Real Life with Mary: Growing in Virtue to Magnify the Lord, encourages moms to grow in friendship with Mary and learn from her how to walk the daily path to holiness.
Meatless Friday: Pineapple Shrimp Fried Rice

3 weeks ago | catholicmom.com | Barb Szyszkiewicz

For an easy Meatless Friday meal, Barb Szyszkiewicz recommends adding pineapple and shrimp to fried rice. Download our printable recipe card!I cook a lot with shrimp because it's quick and relatively inexpensive; I can get frozen shrimp for about $5 a pound, which is a bargain compared to most seafood and even most meat these days. Fried rice is also an inexpensive meal. It lets me use up cooked rice left over from another meal, as well as all kinds of produce I might have around.
Pray for the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV

1 month ago | catholicmom.com | Barb Szyszkiewicz

The newly elected pope, Robert Francis Prevost, has chosen the name Leo XIV. How will you pray for the new pope, and how did you hear about the election? Shortly after noon Eastern today, white smoke was seen from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, and the announcement was made a little more than an hour later that the new pope, Robert Francis Prevost, has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV. The pope was born in 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, and has dual citizenship in the USA and Peru.