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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is editor-in-chief of Catholic Digest and Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com and the author of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also enjoys speaking around the country, is employed as webmaster for her parish web sites and spends time on various …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their 4-year-old daughter, 2-year-old son, and twin boys born May 2011. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is a 30-something, single lady, living in Connecticut in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law and six kids ... and two doors down are her parents. She received her undergraduate degree from …
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DariaSockey

DariaSockey
Daria Sockey is a freelance writer and veteran of the large family/homeschooling scene. She recently returned home from a three-year experiment in full time outside employment. (Hallelujah!) Daria authored several of the original Faith&Life Catechetical Series student texts (Ignatius Press), and is currently a Senior Writer for Faith&Family magazine. A latecomer …
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Kate Lloyd

Kate Lloyd
Kate Lloyd is a rising senior, and a political science major at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. While not in school, she lives in Whitehall PA, with her mom, dad, five sisters and little brother. She needs someone to write a piece about how it's possible to …
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Lynn Wehner

Lynn Wehner
As a wife and mother, writer and speaker, Lynn Wehner challenges others to see the blessings that flow when we struggle to say "Yes" to God’s call. Control freak extraordinaire, she is adept at informing God of her brilliant plans and then wondering why the heck they never turn out that …
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Win a Vatican-Inspired Rosary Bracelet

Just leave a comment to enter!

UPDATE: Contest over, comments now closed. Look for the winner announcement soon!

Lucky you! Today you have an opportunity to win something inspiring and beautiful!

1928 Jewelry in California has an exclusive licensing agreement with the Vatican to enter the library to find inspiration and to reproduce certain sacred objects and jewelry that are found in the vaults. From this, they have a
created... READ MORE 


It’s Still May, Right?

50 reasons to pray the rosary

If you enjoy that, try this one too.


Don’t Fight It, Pray It

Make the daily Rosary part of your family life

I have many memories of praying family Rosaries as a child.

Once, after reading the story of Fatima, my sister and I retreated to the bedroom we shared and knelt beside our beds with beads in hand. Eager for the excitement and glory a Marian apparition would bring us, we determined to pray the Rosary until Mary appeared to us.

Surely, we thought, Mary would be unable to resist such an expression of... READ MORE 


Rosary Stars

If your teen needs a little encouragement to pray the rosary, this might help.

I confess I don’t recognize the main spokesman, but I like his tough-guy wisdom: “I challenge you to pray the rosary, ‘cause you never know who’s hurtin’ out there.”


Sung Rosary

Another wonderful way to pray our beloved Rosary

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On this week’s Catholic Moments podcast (click here to listen or click on the player above), we highlight the lovely Mary, Queen of Peace Meditation Guide &  Sung Rosary project by Susan Bailey. The Sung Rosary is a beautiful 6″ x 9″ 48-page full color book which includes a totally sung rosary on CD. The book contains scripture verses for each Hail Mary, sheet music for the sung prayers, and beautiful... READ MORE 


Rosary Bracelet Winner

The randomly chosen winner in our Rosary bracelet giveaway was commenter #168:

Posted by Anne in Nebraska on Wednesday, Jan 14, 2009 9:09 PM (EST): Beautiful bracelet!  Please enter me in the contest.

Congratulations to Anne and many thanks to Garland of Roses for the generous donation!


Rosary Bracelet Giveaway

Win this beautiful keepsake!

***CONTEST NOW CLOSED***

Wearing the Rosary as a bracelet can be a good way of reminding yourself to pray throughout the day. This bracelet (Victoriana) is designed by Suzanne at Garland of Roses.

Unlike most Rosary bracelets, Suzanne’s contain five full decades of beautiful beads. The bracelet wraps gently & comfortably around your wrist, and one size fits all. For a full description of the genuine Swarovski crystals used in this bracelet, and to see additional bracelets available online, please visit Garland of Roses.

Now for the fun part: Suzanne has generously offered this Rosary as a prize for one lucky reader here at Faith and Family Live!

To enter this giveaway, leave a comment on this post with a valid email address (won’t be published or shared). You must have a U.S. shipping address to win. I’ll accept entries until Friday, January 16 at noon EST. I’ll draw a winner at random and announce over the weekend.

Good luck!


iPray

Mission to MacWorld has me contemplating Catholic iPhone apps

On Tuesday, immediately following my date with my “Radiation Girlfriends”, I hopped in my car and drove the three hours to San Francisco to attend the first day of this year’s MacWorld Expo.

For those non-geeks out there, MacWorld is an annual tech conference highlighting the latest and greatest of all things Apple.  Where most of my friends would head to the big city to help their daughters find... READ MORE 


Back to Basics

While 2-year-old Camilla prays the Liturgy of the Hours, we here are still working on some basics.

The other night, when we prayed the Rosary, Dan paused to ask the kids some questions about the fourth joyful mystery.

“So when Mary and Joseph brought baby Jesus to the temple,” he asked, “Simeon told them what was going to happen in the future, right?

“Yes!” a boy child answered with confidence.

“And so that means Simeon was a ...” Dan coached.

“Fortune teller!” shouted the boy.

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Queen Of Victory

Lepanto, America, cookies & the rosary

Today’s feast of Our Lady of the Rosary is vividly explained here.

Michael Novak sets the scene:

The two greatest naval forces ever assembled — 280 ships in the Turkish Armada, some 212 on the Christian side — came into each other’s sight on the brilliant morning of October 7. So confident was the Turkish admiral, Ali Pasha, that he sailed proudly at the center of his own Armada, bringing with him... READ MORE 


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