Among Women Podcast #66

AW 66 features an extended conversation with Patti Mansfield, a longtime leader in Catholic renewal via the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.

<--That's Patti with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. In 2006, Patti and her husband, Al, were the recipients of the papal medal, Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (For the Church and the Pope), the highest honor bestowed on lay persons by the Church.  

On this program, Patti shares her early years and her initial powerful encounter with Christ, and she teaches on living a fuller life in union with the Holy Spirit, and enjoying a "personal pentecost"

Also, AW 65 looks at the long and venerable life of St. Birgitta (Bridget) of Sweden.

The Future of Catholicism, and more...l

In case your a newbie to the blogosphere, or don't click around much, let me introduce blogger extraordinaire, Elizabeth Scalia, aka, The Anchoress.  You'll find her in my favs in the side bar. She writes with a great wealth of soul, wit, and intellectual heft without being drain on the eyes and the brain. So, a good while back, when her solo blog was given a berth over at First Things, I for one, cheered.

Well, The Anchoress is casting a wider net yet again beyond her regular gig, with a new role over at Patheos, as the keeper and tender of the Catholicism portal.

The entire site is doing a week-by-week examination on the future of world religions, so folks from all over the world are reading and commenting.

I'm suggesting you peruse what's there and take a look at the Future of Catholicism, going on all this week!

Try Elizabeth's piece in the series, (and if you are a fan of the mission of SQPN, I think you'll really like her star/Magi theme) and another goodie not part of the series but if you love Jesus, you'll be blest by it.

But back to the Future of Catholicism series... I really enjoyed the essay Hugh Hewitts's essay, and this one by Father Barron.  The ever-brilliant and provocative Barbara Nicolosi is here too.

Take your time, enjoy the reads, leave a comment. You've got all week!

Oh, and don't look now, but yours truly got her two cents in in the daily symposium about one of her favorite's books:  The Catechism!  

Coffee's On!

My latest over at Catholic.Mom.com.

Only a coffee lover would understand!

Image credit

Relic of True Cross stolen from Holy Cross Cathedral

In Boston, we Catholics are sad about this.  Please pray for this archdiocese, and for the thief that they may have a change of heart.

Among Women Podcast #65

Among Women 65 looks at the extraordinary faith of St. Martha even though she sometimes gets distracted by her loving service.

Plus Pat's guest is Patty Harrison, a medical chaplain who shares her life and work among the dying in the ministry of hospice care.

Here's some special homework for AW listeners:

SHARE WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT MARY!  This will be used for an upcoming episode!

Contact Pat Gohn via amongwomenpodcast@me.com
or send voice feedback to 206-338-6077.

Too Funny! Moms Rhapsodize!

Don't know how I missed this earlier over at Maria Johnson's blog. Thanks Maria! What a hoot!

If you dig the Catechism, here are some of my current articles online...

....over at Faith and Family, on the vocab we need to teach about the Trinity...

and about the transcendent power of Beauty, and how it can point us to God, over at Catholic Exchange's women's channel, Today's Catholic Woman.

See What You've Been Missing...

Here is the complete index of AW episodes listed by topic, saints profiled, and special guests. 

Here is just a partial list of topics covered in the past year on the Among Women Podcast.  See what you've been missing!

Abuse, by a parent

Abuse, sexual

Adoption

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Adultery, woman caught in, 

Amazing Catechists

Anima Christi prayer

Angelus, prayer

Anger management

Angry with God

AIDS orphans

Apparitions

Augustine, St.

Ave Maria, sung

Ave Maris Stella

Beauty

Beginning Contemplative Prayer

Benedict of Nursia, Rule of

Bible study

Bible study for children

Billings Ovulation Method, NFP

Birth control, weaning off

Breast cancer

Camping

Campus ministry

Caritas in veritate

Carmelite spirituality

Catacombs 

Catechists

Catechism of the Catholic Church

CatholicMom.com

Catholic Exchange

Catholic Jukebox

Catholic Media Review

Catholic Moments podcast

Catholic new media

Catholic Writers Guild

Children, raising

Children with Down’s Syndrome

Chastity

Chesterton, GK, author,

Christifidelis Laici

Choose Life license plates, 

Church Fathers

Church scandals

College life, struggles in

Communication

Confession

Contemplative prayer

Convert from Atheism

Convert from Calvinism

Convert from Judaism

Convert from Lutheranism

Convert from Methodism

Couples’ ministry

Creation of man and woman

Creighton Model System, NFP

Crisis pregnancy

Cristo Rey Network

Daughters of St. Paul

Death 

Death of a child by suicide

Depression

Deus Caritas Est

Dignity of women,

Discerning vocation

Divine Mercy

Divorce, Jesus’ teaching on

Down’s Syndrome

Economy

ENDOW, Educating on the Dignity of Women

Exercise

Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist

Extraordinary Moms Network

Eucharist

Evangelization

Faith Formation

Fatima apparitions

Fellowship of Catholic University Students, (FOCUS)

Feminine genius

Feminism

Fertility

Financial worries

Fitness,

Forgotten Classics podcast

Francis, of Assisi

Franciscan Crown Rosary

Frustrations

Gaudium et spes

Genesis, man and woman, in

Gift of self (self-donation)

God’s plan for our life

God’s will

Gospel of Mark, The, 

Grapevine Online

“Grassroots theology”

Hail Mary, The, 

Handbook for Catholic Moms, The

Happy Catholic blog

Health care debate in the US

High School Students

Holy Childhood Association

Homeschooling

How Can I Keep from Singing? podcast

How to start a women’s group

Humanae Vitae

Humility

Illness

Infertility and NFP

Intercession

In vitro-fertization, alternative to

Issues facing younger women

Iraq, war with

John Paul II

Joy

Juan Diego

Just Another Day of Catholic Pondering blog

Karen Edmisten blog

Large families

Letter to Women, by John Paul II

Lectio Divina

Little Sisters of the Poor

Liturgical year

Living a Spirituality of Action

Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary

Louis de Montfort, Secret of the Rosary

Lourdes

Love of neighbor

Lumen gentium

Magnificat, Mary’s Canticle

Make-over 

Marriage, 

Marriage, troubled 

Marriage, waiting for

Marvelous Exchange, the,

Mary’s Mediation

Mary’s “self-portrait” on the tilma

Mary, the “moon” that reflects Christ

Medical crisis

Merciful Mother

Miraculous Medal,

Missionaries of Charity

Mixed marriage

Momopoly blog

Money

Mothering

Mother Teresa and Me

Mothers’ Morning of Prayer

Mulieris Dignitatem

Mystics

Mystogogia

NaPro Technology

Native American saint

Natural Family Planning

Near death

New evangelization

New feminism

New media

Novo Millenio Inuente

Nun Blog

Nursing home, bringing communion to

Occultic activity

Openess to Life,

Orthodoxy, by GK Chesterton

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of LaSalette

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Pagan sacrifices

Patience

Parish involvement

Patristics 

Penance

Pentecost

Pilgrimage

Pontifical Mission Societies

Prayer

Prayer for abuse victims

Pregnancy

Priests

Pro-life activism

Readin

Real Women, Real Saints

Reconciliation, Sacrament of

Religious education

Respect life

Retirement, active lifestyle in

Retrouvaille, for troubled marriages

Reversion

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA)

Rosary

Rosary “chicks”

Rosary prayer group

Rosary Workout, The

Saints

Scriptural Rosary

Secular Franciscan Order

Seven sorrows of Mary

Sexual abuse, and recovery from

Sexuality in Marriage

SFOMom blog

Single life, before marriage

Single mother’s story

Shrine of North American Martyrs

Shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre

Shrine of St. Katharine Drexel

Shrine at Fatima, Portugal

Social Action

Society for the Propagation of the Faith

Soul, beauty of the

Spiritual make-over

Spiritual mothering

Spiritual reading

Spiritual reading for children

Spiritual Woman blog

Spirituality of women

Stoning of Soraya M, The, movie

SQPN

St. Peregrine, Novena to

Teaching

Temperaments

Tertio Millennios Adveniente

Thanksgiving

Theology of the body

Theotokos

30 Day Spiritual Make-over

Treasury of Women Saints

Trinity

Universal call to holiness

Unrealistic expectations

USCCB

US Catholic Marriage Initiative

Vasectomy, and reversal

Vocation of woman

Vocation to religious life

War

Womanhood

Women of influence

Women saints

Women’s ministry

Works-in-progress

Writing

This makes me think...

Humility rests on an interior decision of the will. Furthermore, humility is not primarily an attitude that pertains to the relationship of man to man: it is the attitude of man before the face of God.  Humility is the knowledge and acceptance of the inexpressible distance between Creator and creature.  It is, in a very precise sense... as Gertrud von le Fort once said, "man's true and proper worth before God."


---Josef Pieper, On Hope

Ladies: Got a good Mary Story to share?

Among Women podcast is putting out the call for listeners to share "what they love about Mary"... let's do a show together that features the minds, hearts, and voices of our listeners -- and honor the Blessed Virgin Mary as we do so!

Phone it in to our voicemail line at 206-338-6077. (Don't be shy now -- write it out then read it if you have too!)

Or mail an email that Pat can share with others. Send it to amongwomenpodcast@me.com.

Share an anecdote, an answered prayer, or your favorite Marian devotion or theme.  We're not fussy, as long as its sharable and what YOU love about Mary!

Deadline for entries:  Aug 3rd.

Go to it, girls!

Among Women Podcast #64

Among Women 64 celebrates the beauty of the Angelus Prayer with a guest appearance that Apostle of the Angelus, Sr. Anne Flanagan, FSP, aka writer of the Nun Blog.

Join Sr. Anne and myself for a spirited discussion about the way the Angelus helps us "sanctify time" in our life, and make a holy offering to God.

The Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is July 16th. Our "Blessed are They" segment explain the origin of this title as it relates to Mary, Mount Carmel in Israel, and the Carmelite orders over the years.

Catholic New Media Celebration is SOLD OUT

A waiting list is now being created here.

Let me know if you are coming!

I'll see ya there!