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07/15/2019

National Council of Catholic Women

The National Council of Catholic Women prepared a saintly meal celebrating St. Kateri from #CookingwiththeSaints.

Watch them in action in the kitchen! 🙌🎉

In honor of St Kateri Tekakwitha's feast day the Portland, OR DCCW cooked a Native American Feast! In this video we see the beginning of Zhiiwaagamizigan Gibozigan Okosimaan,
Maple Syrup Baked Squash, from Cooking with the Saints! Thank you, Joan Galles, for organizing this! Sophia Institute Press

07/12/2019

Head over to Instagram to watch Caroline of Church POP make Israeli Tahini cookies in honor of St. Veronica, whose feast we celebrate today!

Watch our story here: https://www.instagram.com/sophiainstitute/

#CookingwiththeSaints

07/12/2019

Louis and Zélie — St. Thérèse’s Incomparable Parents and Church Builders

The most famous of their children is St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, who spoke effusively about how she had been blessed with “incomparable parents” and how God had given her “a mother and a father more worthy of heaven than of earth.”

The feast of the first married couple canonized together is July 12.

07/11/2019

"Idleness is the enemy of the soul."

St. Benedict, pray for us.

07/11/2019

Endow

We as women have a very special role to play in society. In order to reach our fullest potential, however, we must know who we are as Catholic women. The Catholic Church is the fullness of truth. It is our inheritance and we are invited to receive it and let it transform us.
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Have you ever stood in the back of a cathedral and felt the weight of Catholicism? It is the vast story of God revealing himself to His people, saving them and sanctifying them. It is the unending journey that humanity is on to find Him, to know Him and to make His known. This story is our story and we have a part to play.
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We can not however know where we fit if we aren't familiar with Jesus, His Word, and His Church. Endow seeks to help each woman find her place in this story and to receive her inheritance by bringing women into small group communities so that, through friendship, women can learn what this story means to them personally, for their families, and society.
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Join us!

07/10/2019

It was an honor to have Fr. Charles Connor, author of “Pioneer Priests and Makeshift Altars” and “Faith and Fury,” stop by our office today! Fr. Connor’s books explore the fascinating and deep history of Catholicism in America. 🇺🇸📚⛪️

#Sophiabooks #Catholicism #America

07/10/2019

How to Fight Burnout

St. Josemaría says: “If you don’t have a Plan of Life, you’ll never have order.”

Are your daily duties burning you out? Are you struggling to maintain your prayer life? St. Josemaría says: “If you don’t have a Plan of Life, you’ll never have order!”

07/09/2019

Susan Tassone "Day by Day with St. Faustina" - Lisa Hendey & Friends - Episode #56

Discover how spending your days with #SaintFaustina can bless your life. Meet bestselling author Susan Tassone on the latest Lisa Hendey and friends podcast.

Listen here: https://lisahendey.com/podcast/2019/07/09/susan-tassone-day-by-day-with-st-faustina-lisa-hendey-friends-episode-56/

Discover how spending your days with Saint Faustina can bless your life. Meet author Susan Tassone on this week's LisaHendey & Friends podcast.

07/09/2019

From Endow:

"It is within the family that we are meant to learn the Gospel and how to live it out with those closest to us. It is from here that we can bring it into the rest of the world.

Pray for our families, that they would be restored to reflect God's love they way they were meant to."

" We are all aware that the perfect family does not exist, nor does the perfect husband, nor the perfect wife. We exist, and we are sinners. Jesus, who knows us well, teaches us a secret: never let a day go by with asking forgiveness, or without restoring peace in your home." - Pope Francis
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The teachings of the Church, upheld in Humanae Vitae remind us that the family is a reflection of God's love and our desperate need for His mercy. It is within the family that we are meant to learn the gospel and how to live it out with those closest to us. It is from here that we can bring it into the rest of the world.
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Pray for our families, that they would be restored to reflect God's love they way they were meant to.

07/09/2019

Happening today! @rebeccafrech1 will be #CookingwiththeSaints in celebration of St. Augustine Zhao Rong. 😇🍽🎉

07/08/2019

How to Motivate Yourself to Grow in Holiness

"The motive of the love of God can be aroused only by persistent and conscientious meditation on the goodness and love that God has first shown toward us."

-Fr. Philip Dion, The Handbook of Spiritual Perfection

Too often a person looks at the past year and beholds only the shambles of the good resolutions he made last year concerning his predominant fault or some virtue he wanted to acquire. Appalled at his lack of success at another year’s end, he says once again to himself or to his director, “Why do...

07/06/2019

Catholic and love to cook? You’ll want this book!

From Aleteia English:

"#CookingwiththeSaints is a treasure. It features recipes from just about every country and culture you could think of, and is organized to follow the calendar year, making it an invaluable resource for anyone interested in living liturgically."

Almost 10 years ago, parishioners at St. Veronica Catholic Church in Chantilly, Virginia, approached their pastor, Fr. Edward Hathaway, with a novel request: using food—preparing it and then sharin…

07/06/2019

"Praying for the holiness of priests is a sacred duty for the salvation of all souls."

-Kathleen Beckman #PrayingforPriests #Sophiabooks

07/06/2019

Archbishop Fulton Sheen to be beatified

Incredible news! Fulton Sheen, pray for us.

Pope Francis approved the miracle attributed to Archbishop Fulton Sheen Friday, making possible the American television catechist's beatification.

07/05/2019

"True happiness does not consist in the pleasures of this world, or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we only have if we are pure of heart and mind."

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, pray for us.

07/04/2019

14 Unknown Facts about the Founding of Catholicism in America

The history of Catholicism in America is rich, varied, and a testament to keeping the faith despite struggle and discrimination.

Few realize how much influence Catholics had on the founding of America.

07/03/2019

“The ideas Americans have long embraced about republican politics and Western culture have always been Catholic, but secretly so.” -Timothy Gordon 🇺🇸⛪️

#CatholicRepublic #Sophiabooks #independenceday #unitedstates

07/02/2019

Discover Beauty's Power to Save Souls

What is beauty? Why do we need it?

Go to a church where nothing has been invested in beauty, and then ask: Is that parish a stronghold of truth? Is that parish a stronghold of goodness?

It’s no coincidence that faith communities that ignore beauty are often lukewarm and poorly catechized. If you get rid of truth, beauty goes too.

07/01/2019

Follow Lisa Hendey today as she celebrates the feast of St. Junipero Serra with his saintly recipe from #CookingwiththeSaints!

06/30/2019

Ep. #46 - Upgrade Your Apologetics Memory with Dr. Vost - Classical Theism

Dr. Kevin Vost is a convert to Catholicism from atheism and an expert on memory studies. In this interview, he shares time-tested truths and practical strategies for remembering important things about the faith.

Listen here: http://www.classicaltheism.com/vost/

Summary Dr. Kevin Vost is a convert to Catholicism from atheism and an expert on memory studies. He joins us to share time-tested truths and practical strategies for remembering important things about the faith....

06/30/2019

“Beauty makes us long for higher things, which motivates us to pursue higher things, which leads to our ultimate fulfillment.”

-John-Mark Miravalle

#Beauty #Sophiabooks

06/28/2019

"O Sacred Heart of Jesus, fountain of eternal life, Your Heart is a glowing furnace of Love. You are my refuge and my sanctuary."

-St. Gertrude the Great

06/28/2019

12 Promises from the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Christ promises: “I will give them all the graces necessary for their state in life.”

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, 1647-1690, had heavy burdens from her earliest years. She lost her father to pneumonia when she was only eight years old. After her father died she was sent to the Urbanist sisters where the order and peace of soul ushered in by the convent life swept her up into her de...

06/27/2019

Some highlights from Sophia’s #CookingwiththeSaints dinner celebrating St. Josemaria Escriva with a Spanish meal. 🇪🇸🍴🎉

“True virtue is not sad or disagreeable, but pleasantly cheerful.” -St. Josemaria Escriva

#paella #sangria #gazpacho #stjosemariaescriva #Sophiabooks

06/27/2019

According to a recent statistic, 40% of the women who have abortions are regular Church attendees. In the face of an unexpected pregnancy, they reported that they feel judged and unwelcome and so they look for advice and support elsewhere.

Endow's 8 week reflection guide, "Footprints" was created to provide spiritual, emotional, and physical support for our sisters-in-Christ who may feel more alone than ever so that the Church can again become the first place a woman turns to for help and guidance.

We were meant to shoulder one another's burdens.

Learn more about the Footprints program...

Visit: https://buff.ly/2FtlOje

Email: [email protected]

Did you know that Endow offers resources for women in unexpected pregnancies?
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According to a recent statistic, 40% of the women who have abortions are regular Church attendees. In the face of an unexpected pregnancy, they reported that they feel judged and unwelcome and so they look for advice and support elsewhere.
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Our 8 week reflection guide, "Footprints" was created to provide spiritual, emotional, and physical support for our sisters-in-Christ who may feel more alone than ever so that the Church can again become the first place a woman turns to for help and guidance.
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We were meant to shoulder one another's burdens.
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To learn more about our Footprints program you can check out https://buff.ly/2FtlOje or email us at [email protected]

06/27/2019

Hell isn't what you think it is

For 2,000 years, Christians have kept the Faith by meditating on the Four Last Things. From them, we come to learn the nature of sin and its frightful consequences.

Today, most funeral sermons speak of Heaven. Few speak of Judgment. And almost none speak of Hell.

06/27/2019

Spirit and Life

Do you ever feel the Sacraments aren’t working?

Do you wonder if they’re actually imparting the graces you need to grow spiritually?

Rediscover the profound beauty of the seven Sacraments with #SpiritandLife here: http://bit.ly/2XE9Kpo

06/26/2019

"Don't say: 'That person gets on my nerves.' Think: 'That person sanctifies me.'"

St. Josemaria Escriva, pray for us.

06/25/2019

We as women have a very special role to play in society. In order to reach our fullest potential, however, we must know who we are as Catholic women. The Catholic Church is the fullness of truth. It is our inheritance and we are invited to receive it and let it transform us.

Endow exists to empower women and ignite a fire of fully integrated faithful women who can bear Christ's light in every community.

The more we know Him. The more we will love Him. The more He will transform us.

Want to know more? Email: [email protected]

We as women have a very special role to play in society. In order to reach our fullest potential, however, we must know who we are as Catholic women. The Catholic Church is the fullness of truth. It is our inheritance and we are invited to receive it and let it transform us.
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Endow exists to renew, empower women, and ignite a fire of fully integrated faithful women who can bear Christs light in every community. .
The more we know Him. The more we will love Him. The more He will transform us.
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Want to know more? Email us at [email protected]!

06/25/2019

Thanks for #CookingwiththeSaints, Bonnie L. Engstrom! #honeycake #StJohntheBaptist

Nailed it!
Today I made Honey Cake for our family's celebration of St. John the Baptist's birthday. I used a recipe from the new cookbook from @sophiainstitute Cooking With the Saints. This is not what the cake is supposed to look like, but the top half stayed in the bundt pan and I tried to hide the crumbles with icing and ended up with this. It's not pretty, which is my fault, but it is delicious.
#cookingwiththesaints

06/25/2019

Is the devil behind the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis?

Dr. Taylor Marshall joins Lauren Green on Fox News to discuss his book, the sex abuse scandal and share his thoughts on what has contributed to the spiritual decay within the church.

In his new book 'Infiltration, The Plot to Destroy The Church From Within,' Dr. Taylor Marshall attempts to get at the spiritual roots of the clergy sex abuse crisis as well as other problems in the church, claiming the devil is to blame. Dr. Marshall joins Lauren Green to discuss his book, the sex....

06/24/2019

Patrick Deneen and Timothy Gordon: Liberalism and American Republicanism

On a recent episode of the Right On Point Podcast, #CatholicRepublic author Timothy Gordon discussed the recovery of American republicanism.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFfJMDyGwwk

Ep. 107 – Patrick Deneen and Timothy Gordon: Liberalism and American Republicanism Paul and Olivia interview Professor Patrick Deneen, author of ‘Why Liberal...

06/22/2019

What it’s like being a missionary on Wall Street | Catholic Herald

"When we don’t avail ourselves of the graces of Reconciliation, it becomes relatively easy to begin to rationalize bad behavior and attitudes. Gradually we build up a wall between ourselves and God and we are less and less able to speak with Him."

Stephen Auth talks to Francis Phillips about his work saving souls in New York’s financial district…

06/21/2019

An urgent call to pray for priests through prayer and sacrifice

“When people want to destroy religion they begin by attacking the priest; for when there is no priest, there is no sacrifice; and when there is no sacrifice, there is no religion.”

-St. John Vianney

"No words I can use would be too strong to state that the Catholic priesthood

06/20/2019

"Edith Stein, a brilliant intellectual who had embraced atheism, was slowly transformed by divine grace and the example of true Christians."

Learn more from @Endow's study: https://endowgroups.org/studies/edith-stein-seeker-of-truth

Edith Stein, a brilliant intellectual who had embraced atheism was slowly transformed by divine grace and the example of true Christians. On one trip with a friend she was deeply impacted by a sculpture group of the Passion that stood on a Flemish grave.
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As she stood in a cathedral, she saw an ordinary woman enter with her groceries to sit down and pray. She had never witnessed such an ordinary display of intimacy with the divine.
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She took care of her mentor's widow. Expecting her to be distraught, she quickly found that she was dealing with a self possessed woman who understood the power of redemptive suffering.
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It was the power of these ordinary moments of God's hand in the lives of His people that opened her heart to eventually become Catholic.

06/20/2019

We're less than 24 hours away from attending our first IHM Conferences National Conference and debuting our homeschool curriculum!

We can't wait to meet you and share our resources with you at booth #48.

See you tomorrow!

#IHM #Catholic #Homeschool #Catholichomeschooling

06/19/2019

“Lost souls hunger for love. And when they sense true love in the spirit of a missionary on the street, inevitably they’re drawn in.”

-Stephen Auth #MissionaryofWallStreet

06/18/2019

How to Listen to a Silent God

Why does God hide from those of us who yearn to hear His voice? When we do good, there’s no heavenly applause. When we do evil, no divine rebuke.

Why does God hide from those of us who yearn to hear His voice? When we do good, there’s no heavenly applause. When we do evil, no divine rebuke.

06/18/2019

"Edith Stein journeyed through life, involving herself in all manner of activities suitable for a girl her age, and always ready to pause in her busyness to drink in the beauty around her."

-"Seeker of Truth" Endow study on #EdithStein
https://endowgroups.org/studies/edith-stein-seeker-of-truth

"And so we see the youthful seeker, Edith Stein, as she journeyed through life- involving herself in all manner of activities suitable for a girl her age - and always ready to pause in her busyness to drink in the beauty around her. As Stein's intellectual gifts matured, she looked for answers to larger questions of life. What Being controls the universe? What is the underpinning of all human experience?" - "Seeker of Truth", Endow study on the life of Edith Stein.
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Saint statues remind us that we are called to become saints and that we can become saints. Sometimes however, they can make us forget that these men and women were filled with the vibrancy, inner life, imperfections and aching of the human soul.
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A deep dive into the lives of these remarkable individuals reminds us that they were in fact human. The details of their souls, revealed in their stories should remind us that they are not that different from ourselves and that we have the freedom to respond to God in the same way that they did.