Catholic Mom Audio Digest
Enjoy CatholicMom.com content anytime, anywhere with the Catholic Mom Audio Digest—a 5-minute minicast offering encouragement for moms and families. Get inspired with reflections, tips, and stories to support your faith and family life. Stay connected with our community and deepen your spiritual journey every week.
Episodes
Margaret Gartlgruber explains how an unplugged lamp helped her understand a problem with her prayer life.
When Your Prayer Life Gets Unplugged
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Emily Jerger details five ways the Catholic faith can provide relief and encouragement to mothers who are feeling overwhelmed and depleted.
How the Catholic Faith Provides Rest for the Depleted Mom
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Anne DeSantis explores how living faith authentically begins with everyday interactions rooted in kindness, affability, and charity toward others.
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Caroline Godin considers the parallels between a mother’s connection to her child and our connection to Mary in the Rosary.
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Allison Auth describes the purpose of naming our children and how to give them their identity in God.
Naming and Identity: Our Greatest Calling as Parents
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Lisa M. Hendey ponders how hands-on grandparenting reminds her of the importance of savoring those little moments in life.
Why Grandma’s Hair (and Heart) Look Like This
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Louisa Ikena reflects on reaching a point of desperation as a point of surrender and a gift in prayer.
When I Come to the End of Myself
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Elizabeth Estrada rethinks her decision to retire and considers the kind of work she'd like to do in this phase of her life.
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Ellen Mongan describes how a family is a circle of love filled with faith, supporting each other in good times and bad, by showing up.
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[Editor's note: Our dear writer, Ellen Mongan, passed away earlier this week after a sudden illness. She had already submitted the following article, which truly sums up Ellen's witness of immediate, caring gene...
Sharon Wilson reflects on the quiet power of naming someone in prayer and how God slowly heals resentment through daily acts of forgiveness.
Saying Their Name: Learning to forgive One Prayer at a Time
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Hillary Ibarra thanks God for a miraculous 25th engagement anniversary and for how He holds our marriages and families together.
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Kimberly Novak offers five prayerful ways caregivers can add moments of self-care to their busy days.
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Tammy Marino of Unbound reflects on the sacred strength of caring for two generations at once.
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Velany Rodrigues ponders the sometimes-messy ways God enters into our ordinary days.
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Emily Jaminet considers the different blessings, graces, and perspectives we gain as we proceed through new seasons of motherhood.
The Many Seasons of Motherhood
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Jena Muhr discusses the constant need to change the family calendar, and what appointments and events it's OK to reschedule.
Rescheduled: Writing Your Calendar in Pencil
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For Andrea Vij, the memory of her son’s fourth-grade talent show offers a good lesson for the present day.
The Parable of the Talent Show
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As she gets bumped around in life, Erika Dix learns to let go and give the steering wheel to God.
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Allison Auth explains why making more time for Adoration this year will transform your prayer life and help answer life’s questions.
Three Compelling Reasons to Make More Time for Adoration
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Kristina Talbot explores the need to shift the questions of today’s youth by first adjusting the questions we ask them and shares 5 practical ways to connect with teens.
Helping Teens Explore What's Right with Them
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