Mighty Is Her Call Blog
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Mighty Is Her Call elevates Catholic mothers by reimagining the vocation of motherhood as a sacred and worthy life calling united to Christ's total gift of self. The mission is to encourage women who have embraced the call to openness to life by proclaiming the radically Christ-like nature of motherhood.
Mighty Is Her Call Blog
4d ago
The world is a wearying place. It is not our final home, and most days it doesn’t even seem like a suitable rest stop. After traveling through most of Texas last week on our way home from Colorado, I consider myself an expert on suitable rest areas. This world certainly isn’t one of them. If ..read more
Mighty Is Her Call Blog
1w ago
Today, Annie and Kathryn welcome author, mother, and podcaster, Kimberly Cook. Kimberly grew up formed by the culture and the feminist narrative and did not see motherhood as a worthy life-calling. Now the mother of a large family, she tells us the beautiful story of how God changed her perspective and how her experience of ..read more
Mighty Is Her Call Blog
1w ago
When my first child was put into my arms, she was somewhere around the third or fourth baby I had held—ever. I didn’t grow up with younger cousins or family friends with small children. We were some of the first of our friends to get married, so there were no friends’ babies around yet. In ..read more
Mighty Is Her Call Blog
2w ago
One of my favorite delights as a would-be mother was that I would be able to read with my children. Many years ago, as a young mother, I knew the value of reading picture books, but I looked forward to the days of chapter books and great children’s classics. Trained as a Montessori teacher, I ..read more
Mighty Is Her Call Blog
2w ago
When I was a missionary twenty years ago, a catchphrase that was buzzing around at the time was kind of a play on words. Most people talked about being in a ‘State of Grace’ in order to receive communion. I felt like I was a new theologian, who came up with this great idea about ..read more
Mighty Is Her Call Blog
3w ago
“Let’s go, Lord. I’m all in. I am at the service of your Kingdom.” Full of fervor and joy, I entered marriage ready to live out my vocation with my whole heart. I knew the joy of being called, and I was committed to become a gift of self through being a wife and mother ..read more
Mighty Is Her Call Blog
3w ago
Annie and Kathryn are thrilled to introduce you to mother and author, Catherine Ruth Pakaluk, on today’s podcast. We know you will be inspired by Catherine’s story of “instant motherhood,” becoming a mom to six (grieving) children on her wedding day. She is now mother to 13 beautiful children, an economics professor at Catholic University ..read more
Mighty Is Her Call Blog
3w ago
Most of us never experience healings as definite and intense as those in today’s Gospel. Like the hemorrhaging woman, who for twelve years would have been excluded from the temple grounds because of her bleeding, we are often excluded from an easy knowledge of our sacred place in God’s world. We go through long stretches ..read more
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1M ago
Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek? (Jn 20:15) John recounts Jesus’ tender address to Mary Magdalene on the first Easter morning. Mary Magdalene is one of those Bible figures that I had only a vague sense of, perhaps even conflating her with other women in the New Testament–renowned sinner and prostitute, former ..read more
Mighty Is Her Call Blog
1M ago
Have you ever had one of those days when everything seemed fine until it suddenly wasn’t? Last week, my friend Nell was telling me about a day like that. About thirty years ago, she, her husband, and four kids had moved to our town about six months before they were ready to buy a house ..read more